On this day every four years, the weather is carefully tracked for Inauguration Day. As it coincides with the coldest time of year on average in the District, it has often been quite chilly, such as in 1961 for President John F. Kennedy, in 1985 for President Ronald Reagan and this year for Donald Trump. See these stories on Inauguration weather from The Washington Post:
- Inauguration weather history overview
- Cold inauguration forecast forces Trump’s indoors
- Trump’s swearing-in temperature in 2025 was lowest since Reagan’s in 1985
- Reagan’s 1985 inauguration, among the coldest, was held indoors
- How a surprise snowstorm almost spoiled Kennedy’s inauguration
For more information on inauguration weather history, the National Weather Service maintains a helpful website.
Here are other notables for the day:
- Average high: 45
- Average low: 30
- Record high: 70 (1951)
- Record low: minus-2 (1985)
- Record precipitation: 1.77 inches (1937)
- Record snowfall: 3.8 inches (1975)
