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Travel & DistanceUpdated · Aug 2026

Historical Weather Calculator

Look up the recorded high, low, and rainfall for a destination on any past date, and compare it with the ten-year normal for the same calendar day.

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Historical Weather Calculator

Look up what a destination was actually like on a date, and how that compares with the ten-year normal for the same day.

Destination and date

Readings come from the destination's own local day, not yours.

Trip climate check

Reading the archive

Fetching 2026-08-08 and the 10-year normal for Rome.

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Frequently asked questions

Practical notes about the inputs, assumptions, and result.

A single prior year is noise. One unusually hot or wet day tells you nothing about what to expect. Averaging the same calendar date across ten years gives a normal you can actually plan against, and the tool shows the warmest and coldest that date has been in the window.

The destination's. The archive is requested with the destination's own timezone, so a day runs from local midnight to local midnight there rather than in your browser's zone.

The Open-Meteo historical weather API, which is built on the ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis. Values are modelled on a grid rather than measured at one station, so a nearby official station can differ, particularly in mountains or on a coast.

Not in the formal sense. The World Meteorological Organization defines climate normals over 30 years. A ten-year window is deliberately shorter so it reflects recent conditions, which is usually what a traveller wants.

This tool reads recorded weather. For a future trip, use the normal for that calendar date as your planning baseline and check a forecast closer to the time.

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