2025: A year of record-breaking weather in Dayton

March 14: Dayton reached 78 degrees, setting a new record high for the day.
March 29: A record high minimum temperature was set at 65 degrees.

A quarter of the way through 2025, Dayton has already had a record-setting year for weather.

So far this year Dayton has set new daily records six times. Four records were related to the temperature and two were related to daily rainfall.

January was the only month so far where a new record hasn’t been set.

Here are the records Dayton’s broken in 2025, according to the National Weather Service in Wilmington:

Feb. 3: A new record high temperature was set at 66 degrees. The previous record was 62 degrees, set in 1927 and tied in 2020.

May 6: Dayton recorded 1.16 inches of rainfall, beating the 54-year-old record for 0.91 inches set in 1971.

June 22: Dayton broke a 37-year-old record for the warmest low temperature. The low temperature was 77 degrees, breaking the previous record of74 degrees in 1988.
June 23: The city tied its record for warm low temperature with a low of 73 degrees. The record was set on June 23, 1944.
June 24: A new record high low temperature was set at 74 degrees. It beat the previous record of 73 degrees set on June 24, 1914.
June 25: Dayton matched its record warm low temperature for June 25, with a low temperature of 75 degrees. The record was initially set on on June 25, 1943.

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