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El Centro, CA 32.835°N, 115.577°W · station IPLthr · 102 years of record
82°F
COLDEST JUL 18 SINCE 2025
forecast low · Jul 18
NWS NDFD forecast low temperature for El Centro.
84° TUE 7/14 87° WED 7/15 88° THU 7/16 85° FRI 7/17 82° SAT 7/18 83° SUN 7/19 This Day in History · Jul 18
Today ranks #73 / 99
coldest Jul 18 in 99 yrs of record
Coldest Jul 18 ever 63°F
set in 1940
Mildest Jul 18 ever 88°F
set in 1936
Coldest Jul 18 — Year by Year
Every year's low on Jul 18 at El Centro. The forecast line shows where today lands; the ringed bar is the coldest on record.
63 76 88 1927: 80°F 1928: 80°F 1929: 79°F 1930: 78°F 1931: 85°F 1932: 75°F 1933: 74°F 1934: 80°F 1935: 85°F 1936: 88°F 1937: 73°F 1938: 81°F 1939: 70°F 1940: 63°F 1941: 83°F 1942: 71°F 1943: 66°F 1944: 66°F 1945: 82°F 1946: 83°F 1947: 70°F 1948: 75°F 1949: 81°F 1950: 76°F 1951: 81°F 1952: 71°F 1953: 78°F 1954: 80°F 1955: 81°F 1956: 79°F 1957: 76°F 1958: 72°F 1959: 85°F 1960: 80°F 1961: 78°F 1962: 67°F 1963: 75°F 1964: 74°F 1965: 78°F 1966: 75°F 1967: 76°F 1968: 78°F 1969: 83°F 1970: 84°F 1971: 81°F 1972: 79°F 1973: 75°F 1974: 81°F 1975: 74°F 1976: 78°F 1977: 82°F 1978: 79°F 1979: 84°F 1980: 79°F 1981: 80°F 1982: 75°F 1983: 70°F 1984: 84°F 1985: 79°F 1986: 77°F 1987: 64°F 1988: 79°F 1989: 78°F 1990: 84°F 1991: 74°F 1992: 78°F 1993: 73°F 1994: 79°F 1995: 80°F 1996: 76°F 1997: 78°F 1998: 83°F 1999: 77°F 2000: 75°F 2001: 71°F 2002: 82°F 2003: 85°F 2004: 77°F 2005: 84°F 2006: 84°F 2007: 77°F 2008: 81°F 2009: 84°F 2010: 85°F 2011: 76°F 2012: 69°F 2013: 77°F 2014: 76°F 2015: 78°F 2016: 83°F 2017: 84°F 2018: 85°F 2019: 78°F 2020: 81°F 2021: 83°F 2022: 85°F 2023: 88°F 2024: 84°F 2025: 79°F 82° forecast 1927 2025 1940 Forecast low · Jul 18 82°F Coldest this date since 2025 This-date record 63°F This-date rank #73 of 99
Coldest at any time since 2026 All-time record 16°F (1937) Odds to tie/break 0.0% (daily) Period of record 1925–2026
The hottest and coldest ever recorded at El Centro in each calendar month, and for the whole 1925–2026 record — with the year each was set.
Month Record High Record Low Jan 90°F 1971 16°F 1937 Feb 97°F 2026 22°F 2011 Mar 107°F 2026 28°F 1971 Apr 106°F 2007 35°F 1945 May 116°F 1947 43°F 1930 Jun 122°F 2017 51°F 1931 Jul 121°F 1995 61°F 1935 Aug 119°F 2021 60°F 1928 Sep 121°F 2020 51°F 1930 Oct 110°F 1980 32°F 1971 Nov 101°F 2008 27°F 1931 Dec 90°F 1958 21°F 1990 All-time 122°F 2017 16°F 1937
Records set or tied at El Centro so far this year — through Jul 11.
Record Highs in 2026 14 broke
plus 4 tied — daily record highs set this year
Monthly high records this year: Feb (97°F), Mar (107°F)
Record Lows in 2026 0 broke
plus 0 tied — daily record lows set this year
Current run 0 days
consecutive days with a low ≤ 32°F
Longest ever 16 days
record run, ended Jan 1 1931
So far in 2026 0 days
days with a low ≤ 32°F this year
Normal low & low by month, from El Centro's own 1991–2020 record. Today's normal low: 79°F · forecast is +3° vs normal .
Jan: 70°F Jan: 42°F Feb: 74°F Feb: 45°F Mar: 80°F Mar: 51°F Apr: 86°F Apr: 56°F May: 94°F May: 62°F Jun: 103°F Jun: 70°F Jul: 107°F Jul: 78°F Aug: 107°F Aug: 79°F Sep: 102°F Sep: 73°F Oct: 91°F Oct: 60°F Nov: 78°F Nov: 49°F Dec: 69°F Dec: 42°F J F M A M J J A S O N D Sun & Daylight Today Sunrise 4:44 AM Sunset 6:52 PM Solar noon 11:48 AM Daylight 14h 09m · losing 5 min/wk
Local standard time (no DST), level horizon.
Location 32.84°N, 115.58°W El Centro's observed daily low for the last six weeks — a white ring marks any day that broke or tied its daily record for that date.
Every day this year against El Centro's own record — the record low, the normal, and the full span ever seen. A shareable look at where the year stands.
Each cell is one day's low at El Centro, coloured by temperature — 102 years of record, so heat waves read as warm streaks and cold snaps as blue.
How many days a year hit a given low at El Centro — counted through Jul 18 each year, so you can see whether 2026 is running cold. Pick a threshold:
40° 32° 20° 10° 0° -10° -20°
No days ≤32°F yet in 2026. Normal for this point: 4 . Record: 19 in 1964.
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