All temps in Degrees C

20th Century

1900
35.1°C Cambridge 20/07
1901
33.3°C Bawtry & Colly Weston 19/07 & Newton Rigg 20/07
1902
31.9°C Hereford 28/06
1903
31.1°C Wryde 10/07
1904
32.2°C Margate 04/08
1905
30.0°C Bawtry 14/07
1906
35.6°C Bawtry 01/09
1907
30.0°C Lairg 16/07
1908
32.8°C Dumfries 02/07
1909
33.3°C Epsom 15/08
1910
28.9°C Maidenhead 20/06
1911
36.7°C Raunds & Canterbury 09/08
1912
32.8°C Tottenham 12/07
1913
29.4°C New Malden 16/06
1914
32.2°C Woking, New Malden & Wisley 01/07
1915
32.2°C Cromer & Norwich 08/06
1916
30.0°C Woking 30/07 & Salisbury 31/07
1917
33.9°C Reading & Little Massingham 17/06
1918
33.9°C Canterbury 22/08
1919
32.2°C Raunds 11/09
1920
27.8°C Raunds 17/06
1921
34.4°C Woking & Halstead 11/07
1922
32.8°C Camden Square 22/05
1923
35.6°C Camden Square 13/07
1924
32.2°C Camden Square 12/07
1925
33.3°C Hunstanton 22/07
1926
32.2°C Camden Square 19/09
1927
29.4°C Camden Square 16/06
1928
32.8°C Camden Square & Newport (IOW) 15/07
1929
32.2°C Camden Square & Margate 31/08 & Newport (IOW) 05/09
1930
34.4°C Camden Square 29/08
1931
28.3°C Bromley 14/06
1932
36.1°C Halstead (Essex), Tottenham, Regents Park, Enfield (all London) 19/08
1933
34.4°C Margate & Cambridge 27/07
1934
33.3°C Attenborough 11/07
1935
33.3°C Attenborough 13/07
1936
31.7°C Camden Square 20 & 21/06
1937
33.3°C Canterbury & Tunbridge Wells 07/08
1938
30.6°C Camden Square & Reading 01/08
1939
32.2°C Camden Square 07/06
1940
32.8°C Cranwell 09/06
1941
34.3°C Camden Square 22/06
1942
33.9°C Sprowston 27/08
1943
33.9°C Worcester & Croydon 31/07
1944
32.8°C Tunbridge Wells, Horsham, London 29/05 & Long Sutton 30/05
1945
32.2°C Norwich & Whitstable 15/07
1946
30.6°C London 02/07, Finningley 12/07 & Greenwich & Maldon 24/07
1947
34.4°C Waddington & Kensington Palace 03/06
1948
35.0°C Milford 28/07
1949
33.3°C Worcester 12/07
1950
33.3°C Camden Square 06/06
1951
30.0°C Southend-on-Sea 28/07
1952
33.3°C Camden Square, Heathrow & Southampton 01/07
1953
33.9°C Camden Square 12/08
1954
30.6°C Camden Square 01/09
1955
32.2°C Chivenor 23/08
1956
30.0°C Camden Square 29/06
1957
35.6°C Camden Square 29/06
1958
29.4°C Paisley 04/07 & 05/07 & Leicester 08/07
1959
34.4°C Cromer, Boxworth & St James Park 05/07
1960
30.6°C Wyton 18/06
1961
33.9°C Regents Park, Camden Square & Gillingham 01/07
1962
27.8°C Writtle 03/09
1963
28.9°C Littlehampton 28/07, Ceinws 29/07 & Wisley & Gordon Castle 30/07
1964
32.8°C Cromer 26/08
1965
28.9°C Kensington Palace 14/05
1966
28.9°C Southampton 09/06, Perth & Crossmyloof 21/07 & Camden Square 20/08
1967
30.2°C Watnall 17/07
1968
33.3°C Camden Square 01/07
1969
32.8°C Letchworth 16/07
1970
32.2°C Aldenham & Stratford-upon-Avon 07/07
1971
30.3°C Rugby 11/07
1972
29.4°C Perth 20/07
1973
32.1°C Southampton 14/08
1974
28.0°C Southampton 15/06
1975
34.2°C Heathrow & Stanstead Abbotts 08/08
1976
35.9°C Cheltenham 03/07
1977
30.0°C Paisley & Glenlee (D. & G.) 07/07 & Onich 11/07
1978
28.8°C Poolewe 04/06
1979
30.4°C Benson 27/07
1980
29.4°C Cors Fochno 04/06
1981
29.5°C Kew Gardens 05/08
1982
30.7°C Morley St. Botolph 03/08
1983
33.0°C East Bergholt 15/07 & Hampton 16/07
1984
31.7°C Heathrow 08/07
1985
29.8°C Heathrow 25/07
1986
32.0°C Rustington 28/06
1987
30.2°C Liphook 21/08
1988
30.2°C Cheltenham 07/08
1989
34.4°C Mickleham 22/07
1990
37.1°C Cheltenham 03/08
1991
32.1°C Cromer 11/07
1992
30.3°C Malvern 29/06
1993
29.7°C East Bergholt 04/07
1994
33.4°C Morley St. Botolph 12/07
1995
35.2°C Boxworth 01/08
1996
33.2°C Rickmansworth 22/07
1997
33.1°C Wellesbourne 10/08
1998
32.2°C Gravesend 10/08
1999
32.7°C Heathrow 01/08 & Honington 02/08