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Rockford, IL 42.193°N, 89.093°W · station RFDthr · 134 years of record
95°F
HOTTEST JUL 14 SINCE 1995
forecast high · Jul 14
NWS NDFD forecast high temperature for Rockford.
92° MON 7/13 95° TUE 7/14 94° WED 7/15 91° THU 7/16 91° FRI 7/17 89° SAT 7/18 87° SUN 7/19 This Day in History · Jul 14
Today ranks #11 / 127
warmest Jul 14 in 127 yrs of record
Hottest Jul 14 ever 110°F
set in 1936
Coolest Jul 14 ever 67°F
set in 1962
Hottest Jul 14 — Year by Year
Every year's high on Jul 14 at Rockford. The forecast line shows where today lands; the ringed bar is the hottest on record.
67 88 110 1893: 91°F 1895: 94°F 1896: 95°F 1897: 78°F 1898: 89°F 1903: 77°F 1904: 85°F 1905: 82°F 1906: 89°F 1907: 84°F 1908: 88°F 1909: 83°F 1910: 85°F 1911: 86°F 1912: 83°F 1913: 91°F 1914: 86°F 1915: 89°F 1916: 97°F 1917: 83°F 1918: 86°F 1919: 95°F 1920: 86°F 1921: 94°F 1922: 86°F 1923: 95°F 1924: 82°F 1925: 86°F 1926: 82°F 1927: 86°F 1928: 82°F 1929: 83°F 1930: 75°F 1931: 95°F 1932: 97°F 1933: 92°F 1934: 89°F 1935: 90°F 1936: 110°F 1937: 91°F 1938: 83°F 1939: 89°F 1940: 78°F 1941: 88°F 1942: 83°F 1943: 86°F 1944: 85°F 1945: 75°F 1947: 88°F 1948: 87°F 1949: 83°F 1950: 80°F 1951: 85°F 1952: 88°F 1953: 88°F 1954: 88°F 1955: 94°F 1956: 85°F 1957: 88°F 1958: 82°F 1959: 86°F 1960: 81°F 1961: 81°F 1962: 67°F 1963: 80°F 1964: 71°F 1965: 84°F 1966: 78°F 1967: 75°F 1968: 90°F 1969: 87°F 1970: 91°F 1971: 83°F 1972: 81°F 1973: 76°F 1974: 96°F 1975: 75°F 1976: 86°F 1977: 98°F 1978: 79°F 1979: 79°F 1980: 88°F 1981: 85°F 1982: 86°F 1983: 94°F 1984: 88°F 1985: 91°F 1986: 83°F 1987: 77°F 1988: 93°F 1989: 83°F 1990: 71°F 1991: 83°F 1992: 77°F 1993: 79°F 1994: 77°F 1995: 97°F 1996: 81°F 1997: 88°F 1998: 85°F 1999: 87°F 2000: 86°F 2001: 89°F 2002: 88°F 2003: 82°F 2004: 89°F 2005: 93°F 2006: 89°F 2007: 86°F 2008: 80°F 2009: 76°F 2010: 92°F 2011: 84°F 2012: 87°F 2013: 88°F 2014: 79°F 2015: 84°F 2016: 88°F 2017: 70°F 2018: 82°F 2019: 94°F 2020: 83°F 2021: 83°F 2022: 82°F 2023: 88°F 2024: 89°F 2025: 84°F 95° forecast 1893 2025 1936 Forecast high · Jul 14 95°F Hottest this date since 1995 This-date record 110°F This-date rank #11 of 127
Hottest at any time since 2024 All-time record 112°F (1936) Odds to tie/break 0.0% (daily) Period of record 1893–2026
The hottest and coldest ever recorded at Rockford in each calendar month, and for the whole 1893–2026 record — with the year each was set.
Month Record High Record Low Jan 63°F 1989 -31°F 2019 Feb 78°F 2024 -25°F 1933 Mar 85°F 1986 -11°F 1962 Apr 93°F 1930 5°F 1982 May 106°F 1934 24°F 1966 Jun 106°F 1934 35°F 1945 Jul 112°F 1936 43°F 1918 Aug 104°F 1918 35°F 1915 Sep 103°F 1939 24°F 1942 Oct 91°F 1922 7°F 1925 Nov 81°F 1933 -10°F 1977 Dec 69°F 2012 -24°F 1983 All-time 112°F 1936 -31°F 2019
Records set or tied at Rockford so far this year — through Jul 11.
Record Highs in 2026 4 broke
plus 1 tied — daily record highs set this year
Record Lows in 2026 2 broke
plus 0 tied — daily record lows set this year
Current run 0 days
consecutive days with a high ≥ 90°F
Longest ever 21 days
record run, ended Aug 1 1916
So far in 2026 5 days
days with a high ≥ 90°F this year
Normal high & low by month, from Rockford's own 1991–2020 record. Today's normal high: 85°F · forecast is +10° vs normal .
Jan: 29°F Jan: 14°F Feb: 34°F Feb: 17°F Mar: 47°F Mar: 28°F Apr: 60°F Apr: 38°F May: 71°F May: 49°F Jun: 81°F Jun: 59°F Jul: 84°F Jul: 63°F Aug: 82°F Aug: 61°F Sep: 75°F Sep: 53°F Oct: 62°F Oct: 41°F Nov: 47°F Nov: 30°F Dec: 34°F Dec: 20°F J F M A M J J A S O N D Sun & Daylight Today Sunrise 4:32 AM Sunset 7:32 PM Solar noon 12:02 PM Daylight 15h 01m · losing 8 min/wk
Local standard time (no DST), level horizon.
Location 42.19°N, 89.09°W Rockford's observed daily high 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 Rockford's own record — the record high, the normal, and the full span ever seen. A shareable look at where the year stands.
Each cell is one day's high at Rockford, coloured by temperature — 134 years of record, so heat waves read as warm streaks and cold snaps as blue.
How many days a year hit a given high at Rockford — counted through Jul 14 each year, so you can see whether 2026 is running hot. Pick a threshold:
70° 75° 80° 85° 90° 95° 100° 105° 110°
5 days ≥90°F so far in 2026 — tied for the 75th most in 134 years. Normal for this point: 8 . Record: 37 in 1921.
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