Was it sunny on the day you were born? Did it rain on your parents’ wedding day? Weather on Your Birthday checks the real record: pick any place and any date back to 1940 and see that day’s actual high and low temperature, rainfall, wind and conditions.
The data comes from the Open-Meteo archive, built on the ERA5 reanalysis — the same dataset weather researchers use to study the past. No guessing, no “typical weather”: the numbers for that exact day.
How to use it
Type the place, pick the date, choose °C or °F, and press Show that day’s weather. If the place name matches several towns, pick the right one from the list. In a second you get the day’s summary: conditions, high, low, total rain and strongest wind.
A worked example
Try London on 2000-06-15. The archive shows a warm early-summer day: a high near 28 °C, a low near 15 °C, no rain and light wind. That is a real, checkable answer — the kind of detail that makes a birthday card, a wedding anniversary post or a “this day in history” story actually interesting.
When it is fun — and useful
Birthday parties: settle the “was it hot when I was born?” debate. Anniversaries: check the wedding day. Writers: get the weather right in a memoir or a historical scene. Teachers: show students how to read real climate data. And anyone planning an outdoor event on the same date next year gets a realistic sense of what that date usually brings.
Honest limits
The archive covers 1940 to about five days ago — recent days are not in it yet, because the reanalysis takes a few days to process. Values are daily summaries for the area around the place, not a street-level reading. Rain is a daily total: it cannot tell you whether it rained at 3 p.m. And very old dates (1940s–1950s) are reconstructions from fewer observations than modern ones.
Ideas for using the result
The best use is a story. “On the day you were born it was 31 °C and raining” beats a generic birthday message, and it is verifiable — anyone can re-run the same lookup. Put it on a birthday card, in a wedding anniversary speech, or at the top of a family history page. Teachers turn it into a lesson: pick the birthdays of everyone in class and chart who was born on the hottest, coldest, wettest or windiest day.
Writers use it as a fact-check. If your novel is set in Rome on 12 March 1968, the archive tells you whether your characters should be wearing coats or sunglasses. Event planners use the same trick in reverse: look up the last ten years of your event date in your city and you get a realistic picture of what that date usually delivers, instead of trusting one lucky memory.
FAQ
Is it free? Yes — unlimited lookups, no sign-up.
How far back does it go? To 1 January 1940.
Why can’t I pick yesterday? The archive needs a few days to process new observations. Five days back is the safe limit.
Is this a forecast? No — it is the recorded past, not a prediction. For forecasts, use our Weather Forecast tool.
Can I check a wedding anniversary? Yes — any date from 1940 onward works, including wedding days, graduations and the day a business opened.
Why is the temperature different from what I remember? Memory keeps the feeling of a day, not the thermometer. A day you remember as “hot” may have peaked at 24 °C with strong sun. The archive reports the measured value, which is the point.
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