2025 Inauguration Indoors Due to Cold

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Inauguration moved indoors for first time since 1985 due to coldest January in 40 years

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The 2025 U.S. Presidential Inauguration has been moved indoors for the first time since 1985 due to the coldest weather for an inauguration in 40 years for Washington , D.C. The record for coldest January inauguration is currently held by the second inauguration of Ronald Reagan in 1985 , when the temperature at noon for the swearing-in ceremony was only 7 degrees .

The weather for this year ’s inauguration is forecast to somewhat mimic that of 1985 , which took place on Jan. 21 .

The high temperature that day was 17 degrees , with sunny skies and afternoon wind chills in the minus 10 to minus 20-degree range.

The first inauguration to be held on Jan. 20 - Franklin D. Roosevelt’s second inauguration in 1937 - also set the record for the heaviest rain on inauguration day.

Between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. , a period that includes the swearing-in ceremony, nearly three-quarters of an inch of rain fell.

The first seven inauguration ceremonies from 1789 to 1813 were conducted indoors.

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