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Hong Kong's August 2 Low Is Likely to Settle at 25°C

A sudden surge in confident positioning locked in the overnight floor, while daytime highs across Asia are already resolved as fact.

Source: Polymarket market “Lowest temperature in Hong Kong on August 2?”

Leading outcome at publication 25°C 74% Leaning
24h move at publication ▲ 36.5 pts 25°C
Traded 24h at publication $31K $40K all time
Resolves by 2026-08-02 Today
Source markets 38 38 markets · mixed

At publication: 74% → Now: 78% (live) — the article below reflects the market as of 2026-08-02 15:00 UTC.

A precise meteorological consensus has crystallized around Hong Kong's weather on August 2, with the overnight low almost certainly landing at 25°C and the daytime high already treated as settled. The swing in confidence over a single day was dramatic — not the slow drift of a crowd gradually updating, but the sharp, decisive repricing that typically follows access to high-resolution forecast data.

The pattern across the broader cluster is striking in its coherence. Daytime highs for Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Chengdu have all been priced to virtual certainty, suggesting that meteorologists and weather-specialist traders — the most plausible movers of this kind of volume — are reading the same reliable model runs pointing to a stable, hot, humid airmass blanketing East Asia on that date. When that many cities resolve simultaneously at such confidence, the collective signal is not noise: it reflects genuine forecasting conviction about a regional atmospheric pattern.

Hong Kong's overnight low carries slightly more residual uncertainty than the daytime highs, which is meteorologically sensible. Nighttime minimums in a subtropical coastal city during the height of summer are sensitive to cloud cover, sea-breeze timing, and moisture — variables that even good models resolve with a day or two less lead time than afternoon peaks. The 74% probability on 25°C, with 24°C still holding a meaningful quarter-share, reflects exactly that narrower but not yet eliminated spread. The money says the low is likely 25°C; it does not say the question is closed.

Further afield, the cluster adds texture. London's high is nearly certain at 27°C — warm for August but not exceptional — while Toronto leans strongly toward 24°C. New Orleans rain on the same date is all but certain, consistent with its summer convective pattern. Milan sits as the one genuine open question in the set, its high split nearly evenly around 34°C, suggesting a less stable synoptic setup over the Mediterranean that day. Together, these markets sketch a global weather map for August 2 in unusually specific terms.

For anyone with exposure to outdoor events, logistics, or energy demand in East Asia that day, the signal is clear: plan for a hot, sultry night in Hong Kong following a sweltering afternoon, with conditions across the Pearl River Delta and beyond uniformly oppressive. What would break the market's read is a late shift in the regional monsoon trough or an unexpected cloud-band intrusion — either of which would push the low toward 24°C and vindicate the remaining quarter of skeptics. Absent that disruption, the floor of 25°C looks like the most reliable meteorological call the money is currently willing to make.

Where the money stood at publication

25°C 74% ▲ 36.5
24°C 25% ▼ 24.0
23°C 1% ▼ 18.4
22°C 0% ▼ 0.8
20°C or below 0% 0.1
21°C 0% 0.1

Source markets for this story (as of publication)

Highest temperature in LA on Aug 2, 2026? Kalshi · 80° to 81° 58% · +8.0 24h
Highest temperature in Hong Kong on August 2? Polymarket · 26°C 100% · +81.8 24h
Highest temperature in Seoul (Incheon) on August 2? Polymarket · 33°C 100% · +65.5 24h
Highest temperature in Taipei on August 2? Polymarket · 36°C 100% · +63.4 24h
Highest temperature in Shenzhen on August 2? Polymarket · 30°C 100% · +87.2 24h
Highest temperature in London on August 2? Polymarket · 27°C 94% · +42.0 24h
Highest temperature in Tokyo on August 2? Polymarket · 33°C 100% · +78.5 24h
Highest temperature in Toronto on August 2? Polymarket · 24°C 90% · +57.5 24h
Highest temperature in Shanghai on August 2? Polymarket · 36°C 100% · +56.0 24h
Highest temperature in Chengdu on August 2? Polymarket · 29°C or higher 100% · +96.0 24h
Highest temperature in Milan on August 2? Polymarket · 34°C 50% · +15.0 24h
Where will it rain on Aug 2, 2026? Kalshi · New Orleans 99% · +25.0 24h
Highest temperature in Paris on August 2? Polymarket · 32°C 57% · +2.5 24h
Highest temperature in Miami on Aug 2, 2026? Kalshi · 90° to 91° 52% · +8.0 24h
Highest temperature in Guangzhou on August 2? Polymarket · 30°C 100% · +66.5 24h
Highest temperature in NYC on August 2? Polymarket · 82-83°F 60% · +17.5 24h
Highest temperature in Beijing on August 2? Polymarket · 35°C 100% · +69.5 24h
Highest temperature in NYC on Aug 2, 2026? Kalshi · 82° to 83° 70% · +39.0 24h
Highest temperature in Madrid on August 2? Polymarket · 37°C 75% · +31.5 24h
Highest temperature in Chongqing on August 2? Polymarket · 33°C or below 100% · +20.4 24h
Highest temperature in Munich on August 2? Polymarket · 30°C 91% · +47.5 24h
Highest temperature in Busan on August 2? Polymarket · 39°C 100% · +86.5 24h
Highest temperature in Kuala Lumpur on August 2? Polymarket · 34°C 100% · +60.0 24h
Highest temperature in Jeddah on August 2? Polymarket · 43°C 100% · +72.9 24h
Lowest temperature in Hong Kong on August 2? Polymarket · 25°C 74% · +36.5 24h
Highest temperature in Karachi on August 2? Polymarket · 30°C 100% · +97.2 24h
Highest temperature in Singapore on August 2? Polymarket · 32°C 100% · +51.4 24h
Highest temperature in Manila on August 2? Polymarket · 30°C 100% · +85.0 24h
Highest temperature in Miami on August 2? Polymarket · 90-91°F 54% · +11.5 24h
Highest temperature in Los Angeles on August 2? Polymarket · 78-79°F 56% · +29.5 24h
Highest temperature in Helsinki on August 2? Polymarket · 22°C 100% · +43.1 24h
Highest temperature in Amsterdam on August 2? Polymarket · 26°C 92% · +56.0 24h
Highest temperature in Cape Town on August 2? Polymarket · 23°C 100% · +64.3 24h
Highest temperature in Tel Aviv on August 2? Polymarket · 35°C 100% · +40.1 24h
Highest temperature in Istanbul on August 2? Polymarket · 27°C 98% · +46.5 24h
Highest temperature in Ankara on August 2? Polymarket · 32°C 98% · +70.5 24h
Highest temperature in Qingdao on August 2? Polymarket · 36°C 100% · +55.5 24h
Highest temperature in Austin on August 2? Polymarket · 98-99°F 51% · +13.5 24h
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