Brooklyn, New York Weather Records
The hottest and coldest days Brooklyn has ever recorded — and how today compares to normal
Brooklyn, NY · Today vs. normal
9°F below the June normal
Right now it’s 71°F in Brooklyn — about 9° below the June normal high of 80°F.
Brooklyn’s all-time temperature records
- Hottest day on record
- 106°Fset July 9, 1936
- Coldest day on record
- -15°Fset February 9, 1934
That is a 121°F span between the hottest and coldest days Brooklyn has ever recorded — the full range of what its weather has done across the station’s record back to 1869.
How extreme Brooklyn’s weather gets
Brooklyn’s weather is usually mild by its own standards — a typical year averages a daily high near 63°F, and the normal high for June runs about 80°F. The records sit well outside that everyday range. The hottest day on record reached 106°F in 1936 — roughly 43°F above a typical year’s average high, the kind of gap that turns an ordinary summer into a genuine heat event.
At the other end, Brooklyn has bottomed out at -15°F (1934). Together the two extremes span 121°F — the full width of what this place’s weather has done across the station’s daily record back to 1869. Those edges are exactly why the anomaly readout at the top of this page is worth a glance: it shows where today falls between the normal and the record, so a hot afternoon can be judged against the real history rather than a hunch. A reading a few degrees over the June normal is ordinary; one pushing toward the 106°F record is the rare event the record marks.
Frequently asked
- What is the hottest day ever recorded in Brooklyn?
- Brooklyn's hottest day on record reached 106°F, set on July 9, 1936. That is the single most extreme high in the nearest long-term weather station's full daily record — about 43°F hotter than a typical year's average high of 63°F, which is why a day like it stands out as genuinely rare rather than just a hot afternoon.
- What is the record high temperature in Brooklyn?
- The all-time record high in Brooklyn is 106°F, recorded on July 9, 1936. Records are drawn from the nearest long-term weather station's full daily history, so this is the hottest single day the station has ever logged — not a typical summer peak.
- What is the coldest day ever recorded in Brooklyn?
- Brooklyn's coldest day on record bottomed out at -15°F, set on February 9, 1934. Like the record high, it comes from the station's complete daily record, so it captures the most extreme cold the area has recorded rather than an average winter low.
- What is the record low temperature in Brooklyn?
- The all-time record low in Brooklyn is -15°F, recorded on February 9, 1934. The gap between that and the 106°F record high — a span of 121°F — is the full range of temperatures Brooklyn has experienced across its long-term daily record.
- Is it normal to be this hot in Brooklyn?
- It depends on how far above Brooklyn's normal a given day runs. A typical year here averages a daily high near 63°F; the all-time record of 106°F (set 1936) sits about 43°F above that. The anomaly readout at the top of this page compares the current temperature against this month's normal high, so you can see exactly how unusual today is rather than guessing.
- When did Brooklyn set its temperature records?
- Brooklyn's record high of 106°F was set in 1936 (July 9, 1936), and its record low of -15°F in 1934 (February 9, 1934). Both are pulled from the station's complete daily record going back to 1869, so they reflect the true extremes rather than a recent or partial sample.
- Has Brooklyn been getting hotter?
- Yes — Brooklyn's annual mean temperature has trended about 4.1°F warmer since 1869, in line with the long-term warming seen across nearly every US city. That gradual shift in the average is separate from the all-time records above, which mark the single most extreme days rather than the trend, but a warming baseline is part of why recent years more often brush up against the record-high end.
More for Brooklyn
See the full Brooklyn, NY weather forecast — hour-by-hour outlook, NOAA radar, satellite, and air quality — or the broader Brooklyn climate & weather by month for the long-run averages behind these records.