The presidential inauguration ceremony will take place on what could be the coldest inauguration day since 1985.

It will be the coldest Inauguration Day since former President Ronald Reagan’s second inauguration in 1985, when the noon temperature was 7 degrees.

In his statement, Trump addressed two obsessions of the MAGA movement: Ronald Reagan and crowd sizes. The incoming president noted that Reagan was sworn in inside the Capitol in 1985, at that moment becoming the oldest president to be inaugurated. That record was eventually bested by Joe Biden in 2021. It will again be broken by Trump next week.

The worst weather for an inaugural came in March 1909, when 10 inches of snow forced William H. Taft to move indoors to be sworn in.

The coldest air of the season is set to arrive in Washington, DC, on January 20, coinciding with President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. When Trump takes the oath of office at noon, temperatures are forecast to be in the low 20s,

He is not the only president to move his inauguration indoors because of frigid conditions. It is expected to be the coldest Inauguration Day since 1985, when Ronald Reagan was sworn in for a second term in 7 degree weather.

Ronald Reagan was the last president to be sworn in indoors back in 1985, when the temperature was around 7 degrees. Temperatures on Inauguration Day in 2025 were expected to be in the 20s.