Highest temperature in Chongqing on August 3?

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Market context

The relevant real-world event is the **maximum air temperature** recorded at Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport Station on 3 August 2026, as reported by Wunderground, and the market resolves to whichever Celsius range contains that daily high. August is normally the hottest part of the year in Chongqing, with published climate guides putting typical August highs around **33–34°C** and noting that heatwave days can run materially hotter, so the settlement outcome depends on whether the airport station reaches an ordinary late-summer high or pushes into a more extreme reading.[2][4][9][16]

The current **0% YES** crowd price is best read against the fact that the event is still open until the settlement window closes, but the underlying weather pattern in Chongqing is highly seasonal rather than binary: August often brings both oppressive heat and rainfall, which can cap daytime highs or keep them near the low-to-mid 30s Celsius.[2][9][19] Comparable historical framing matters here because Chongqing has produced far higher extremes in recent years, including a city-level record of **43°C** in 2022, showing that the market is not about whether it can be hot, but how hot the airport station is on that specific day.[4]

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