The day with the highest recorded rainfall in a 24-hour period occurred during Cyclone Denise in Foc-Foc, La Réunion, an island in the southern Indian Ocean, where 1.825 meters (71.8 inches) of rain fell from January 7 to 8, 1966. In the United States, the highest 24-hour rainfall record is 49.69 inches, set on April 14-15, 2018, at Waipā Garden on the island of Kauai, Hawaii
. Thus, the global record for the highest rainfall in a single day is the 71.8 inches in La Réunion, while the U.S. record is nearly 50 inches in Hawaii.
