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Portland, ME 43.642°N, 70.304°W · station PWMthr · 153 years of record
61°F
COLDEST JUL 17 SINCE 2020
forecast low · Jul 17
NWS NDFD forecast low temperature for Portland.
67° TUE 7/14 73° WED 7/15 66° THU 7/16 61° FRI 7/17 61° SAT 7/18 63° SUN 7/19 This Day in History · Jul 17
Today ranks #91 / 152
coldest Jul 17 in 152 yrs of record
Coldest Jul 17 ever 41°F
set in 1946
Mildest Jul 17 ever 74°F
set in 1969
Coldest Jul 17 — Year by Year
Every year's low on Jul 17 at Portland. The forecast line shows where today lands; the ringed bar is the coldest on record.
41 58 74 1874: 64°F 1875: 61°F 1876: 63°F 1877: 64°F 1878: 62°F 1879: 65°F 1880: 63°F 1881: 62°F 1882: 62°F 1883: 64°F 1884: 58°F 1885: 60°F 1886: 61°F 1887: 63°F 1888: 56°F 1889: 62°F 1890: 64°F 1891: 58°F 1892: 61°F 1893: 64°F 1894: 57°F 1895: 57°F 1896: 54°F 1897: 60°F 1898: 58°F 1899: 60°F 1900: 67°F 1901: 69°F 1902: 52°F 1903: 56°F 1904: 62°F 1905: 60°F 1906: 63°F 1907: 65°F 1908: 54°F 1909: 60°F 1910: 54°F 1911: 60°F 1912: 65°F 1913: 57°F 1914: 63°F 1915: 59°F 1916: 57°F 1917: 64°F 1918: 61°F 1919: 61°F 1920: 62°F 1921: 56°F 1922: 60°F 1923: 61°F 1924: 59°F 1925: 62°F 1926: 57°F 1927: 63°F 1928: 62°F 1929: 60°F 1930: 59°F 1931: 57°F 1932: 53°F 1933: 61°F 1934: 56°F 1935: 63°F 1936: 59°F 1937: 66°F 1938: 64°F 1939: 56°F 1940: 60°F 1941: 57°F 1942: 46°F 1943: 53°F 1944: 61°F 1945: 59°F 1946: 41°F 1947: 67°F 1948: 50°F 1949: 64°F 1950: 60°F 1951: 59°F 1952: 67°F 1953: 60°F 1954: 48°F 1955: 69°F 1956: 52°F 1957: 55°F 1958: 54°F 1959: 54°F 1960: 47°F 1961: 56°F 1962: 54°F 1963: 57°F 1964: 59°F 1965: 53°F 1966: 47°F 1967: 61°F 1968: 71°F 1969: 74°F 1970: 60°F 1971: 61°F 1972: 62°F 1973: 57°F 1974: 53°F 1975: 65°F 1976: 53°F 1977: 65°F 1978: 58°F 1979: 66°F 1980: 65°F 1981: 56°F 1982: 64°F 1983: 60°F 1984: 64°F 1985: 61°F 1986: 54°F 1987: 57°F 1988: 57°F 1989: 56°F 1990: 65°F 1991: 62°F 1992: 55°F 1993: 56°F 1994: 62°F 1995: 56°F 1996: 61°F 1997: 59°F 1998: 68°F 1999: 67°F 2000: 59°F 2001: 57°F 2002: 55°F 2003: 62°F 2004: 60°F 2005: 66°F 2006: 64°F 2007: 58°F 2008: 58°F 2009: 61°F 2010: 69°F 2011: 62°F 2012: 68°F 2013: 68°F 2014: 61°F 2015: 51°F 2016: 69°F 2017: 62°F 2018: 64°F 2019: 68°F 2020: 59°F 2021: 67°F 2022: 62°F 2023: 68°F 2024: 68°F 2025: 68°F 61° forecast 1874 1946 2025 Forecast low · Jul 17 61°F Coldest this date since 2020 This-date record 41°F This-date rank #91 of 152
Coldest at any time since 2026 All-time record -39°F (1943) Odds to tie/break 0.0% (daily) Period of record 1874–2026
The hottest and coldest ever recorded at Portland in each calendar month, and for the whole 1874–2026 record — with the year each was set.
Month Record High Record Low Jan 67°F 2007 -26°F 1971 Feb 68°F 2018 -39°F 1943 Mar 88°F 1998 -21°F 1950 Apr 92°F 2009 8°F 1954 May 96°F 1937 23°F 1956 Jun 99°F 2025 33°F 1944 Jul 103°F 1911 40°F 1962 Aug 103°F 1975 33°F 1965 Sep 96°F 1929 23°F 1941 Oct 88°F 1963 15°F 1976 Nov 79°F 2024 -6°F 1875 Dec 71°F 1998 -21°F 1917 All-time 103°F 1911 -39°F 1943
Records set or tied at Portland so far this year — through Jul 11.
Record Highs in 2026 3 broke
plus 0 tied — daily record highs set this year
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 128 days
record run, ended Apr 4 1961
So far in 2026 91 days
days with a low ≤ 32°F this year
Normal low & low by month, from Portland's own 1991–2020 record. Today's normal low: 61°F · forecast is +0° vs normal .
Jan: 32°F Jan: 15°F Feb: 35°F Feb: 16°F Mar: 42°F Mar: 25°F Apr: 54°F Apr: 35°F May: 64°F May: 45°F Jun: 73°F Jun: 54°F Jul: 79°F Jul: 60°F Aug: 78°F Aug: 59°F Sep: 71°F Sep: 51°F Oct: 59°F Oct: 40°F Nov: 48°F Nov: 31°F Dec: 38°F Dec: 22°F J F M A M J J A S O N D Sun & Daylight Today Sunrise 4:12 AM Sunset 7:22 PM Solar noon 11:47 AM Daylight 15h 10m · losing 9 min/wk
Local standard time (no DST), level horizon.
Location 43.64°N, 70.30°W Portland'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 Portland'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 Portland, coloured by temperature — 153 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 Portland — counted through Jul 17 each year, so you can see whether 2026 is running cold. Pick a threshold:
40° 32° 20° 10° 0° -10° -20°
91 days ≤32°F so far in 2026 — tied for the 90th most in 153 years. Normal for this point: 92 . Record: 114 in 1943.
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