Washington
It is 63.0°F at WASHINGTON NATIONAL AIRPORT, 08:00 local on Monday. Washington is the 98th hottest of 139 capitals by annual mean, and the 179th hottest capital right now.
08:00 local · Monday 28 September 2026
Source: WMO SYNOP bulletins
Normal for this date here is a high of 75.6°F.
Sunday, 17 August 1997
Source: GHCN-Daily
Sunday, 17 January 1982
Source: GHCN-Daily
The record for 28 September here is 89.1°F, set in 1954. Today reached 63.0°F.
The whole record bookKuwait City, at 114.8°F. The two ends of the capitals table right now.
See Kuwait CityWhere Washington stands
- Among capitals, annual mean
- #98
- of 139
- Among capitals, right now
- #179
- of 213 reporting
- Hottest month
- July
- 88.3°F
- Widest annual swing
- #20
- of 139
Washington by month
Normal high · record high · record low- Jan43.7°FHigh 80.1°F · 26 Jan 2024Low −5.1°F · 17 Jan 1982
- Feb47.1°FHigh 82.0°F · 28 Feb 1948Low 3.9°F · 2 Feb 1961
- Mar56.1°FHigh 89.1°F · 29 Mar 1945Low 10.9°F · 4 Mar 1943
- Apr67.1°FHigh 95.0°F · 23 Apr 1960Low 24.1°F · 14 Apr 1950
- May75.9°FHigh 99.0°F · 31 May 1991Low 34.0°F · 9 May 1947
- Jun84.4°FHigh 104.0°F · 29 Jun 2012Low 46.9°F · 6 Jun 1945
- Jul · warmest
Nearby, hottest and coldest
8 of 8 nearby stations reported today.
Capitals with a similar climate
The capitals immediately warmer and cooler than Washington by annual mean.
- Monaco 67.5°F
- Andorra la Vella 66.9°F
- Bogotá 66.9°F
- Ankara 66.2°F
- San Marino 65.7°F
- Belgrade 63.1°F
How Washington’s temperature has been recorded
When did temperature records begin in Washington?
The archive held here for Washington, United States starts in 1941, which is 85 years of record, across 62,294 days with a stored reading.
Which station measures Washington's temperature?
WASHINGTON NATIONAL AIRPORT (KDCA), 5 m above sea level. Every figure on this page comes from that one station rather than from a city-wide average, so it is a measurement at a known place rather than an estimate for an area.
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Washington?
105.1°F, on 17 August 1997, in the record held for WASHINGTON NATIONAL AIRPORT. That is the highest daily maximum in the archive for this station, not a national record and not an official figure: those are set by national meteorological services.
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Washington?
−5.1°F, on 17 January 1982, in the same archive. Like the high, it is the lowest daily minimum this station has recorded rather than an official national figure.
Sources and checks for this page
Live readings come from WMO SYNOP bulletins at WASHINGTON NATIONAL AIRPORT. Monthly means and every record on this page are computed from NOAA GHCN-Daily observations stored per station, per year, per month, and the capital list is GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Nothing here is modelled, interpolated or estimated, and a month the archive never covered is left out rather than filled in. See how this is built.
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