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Chongqing June 20 High Temp: Market Locked at 33°C

Chongqing June 20 High Temp: Market Locked at 33°C

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Implied 100% at publication · Resolved YES · Brier score: 0.00

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SR Sofia Renard Climate & Science Analyst
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SETTLED: The 33°C bracket is priced at full certainty after a 65% single-day surge. Market probability: 100%.

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Volume
$62.0K
$51.6K in 24h
Liquidity
$70.2K
Moderate depth
Time Left
Ended
Resolves Jun 20
62K Vol. Ended

The market has already spoken. Traders pushed the 33°C outcome for Chongqing’s June 20 peak temperature to full certainty, pricing out every competing bracket entirely. The momentum behind this move was anything but gradual: a 65% surge in implied probability over 24 hours tells the story of a market that chased a single measurement to its logical conclusion.

The market question asks: what is the highest temperature in Chongqing on June 20? The 33°C outcome sits at 1.00 (100% implied probability), with the NO side at 0.00. This contract resolves at 12:00 UTC on June 20, 2026. Total volume stands at $60,819, with $51,342 of that arriving in the last 24 hours alone.

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How the Chongqing Temperature Contract Works

This is an outright outcome market. YES pays if the official peak temperature recorded in Chongqing on June 20 lands at exactly 33°C. Competing brackets include 28°C or below, 29°C, 30°C, 31°C, 32°C, 34°C, 35°C, 36°C, 37°C, and 38°C or higher. Resolution follows the official measurement reported for the market’s designated Chongqing station. All other brackets have been priced to zero.

  • 33°C (YES): 1.00 price, 100% implied probability.
  • All other brackets (NO): 0.00 price, 0% implied probability.

For any competing bracket to pay out, the official Chongqing peak reading would need to land outside 33°C entirely. That means a reading of 32°C or lower, or 34°C or higher, would flip the result. At 100% pricing, the market has concluded that outcome is not in play.

Momentum and Market Signals

The momentum composite here is one of the sharpest single-day moves in a short-duration weather market. The 24-hour price change of +65.1% combined with a trend score of 65.14 points to a single driver: real-time temperature data from Chongqing confirming the 33°C reading as the day’s peak, or near-final forecast data tightening the range. Markets like this one don’t move 65% in a day on speculation. They move when the measurement is already in, or effectively certain.

Total volume of $60,819 is modest by major market standards, and $51,342 of that concentrated in the last 24 hours signals a sharp, late-breaking consensus rather than steady accumulation. Liquidity stands at $86,678, which is healthy relative to volume. That said, in thin short-duration weather markets, a single large trade can move price dramatically. The market is pricing a resolved or near-resolved fact, not a probabilistic forecast.

Key Factors

  • The 24-hour price change of +65.1% reflects a decisive shift in market conviction, almost certainly driven by observed or forecast temperature data for Chongqing on June 20.
  • The 1-hour price change of +0.0% confirms the market has stopped moving: certainty has been reached and no further repricing is occurring.
  • Total volume of $60,819 with $51,342 arriving in 24 hours indicates late, concentrated buying into the 33°C bracket.
  • Liquidity at $86,678 exceeds volume, which is unusual and suggests the order book was deep enough to absorb the late surge without slippage.
  • All competing brackets sit at zero, meaning the market has fully resolved its probability mass onto a single outcome.

Lines Analysis: The Chongqing Reading

Here’s what the measurements are telling us. Chongqing sits in the Sichuan Basin, one of the hottest urban environments in China during summer. June peak temperatures in the low-to-mid 30s are climatologically normal for the city. A reading of 33°C on June 20 is entirely consistent with the seasonal baseline. The market’s move to 100% is not a contrarian call. It tracks an outcome well within the expected range for late June in Chongqing.

The data doesn’t care about the politics, and it doesn’t care about adjacent markets either. The strong negative correlations with pandemic and space launch markets are statistical noise in this context. A Chongqing temperature reading has no structural relationship to Hantavirus risk or lunar missions. Those correlations reflect portfolio behavior by a small number of traders, not any causal link.

Signals to Monitor

  • The official peak temperature publication for the Chongqing station on June 20 is the sole resolution trigger. Any deviation from 33°C would reprice every competing bracket instantly.
  • China Meteorological Administration station data for Chongqing will confirm or contradict the market consensus at resolution.
  • Late-afternoon temperature readings in Chongqing (local time) are the most likely window for the daily peak. Markets this close to resolution respond to real-time weather data, not forecasts.
  • If the Chongqing peak comes in at 32°C or 34°C, the 33°C bracket collapses to zero and the matching bracket reprices to 100%.

Total volume of $60,819 is not large enough to suggest institutional conviction, but the structure of the late buying is clear. The $51,342 in 24-hour volume arrived as the temperature window narrowed. That’s traders pricing a known outcome, not a forecast. The data favors the YES side for the 33°C bracket, and the market has already priced that conclusion with no remaining uncertainty.

LINES VERDICT

SETTLED: CHONGQING PEAKS AT THIRTY-THREE

The market has priced the 33°C outcome as a confirmed fact, not a probability. The 65% surge in 24-hour implied probability reflects traders converging on a measurement already within the observable range, and the halt in 1-hour movement confirms no further repricing is expected before resolution.

What the market says: One hundred percent implied probability means the market is treating this as resolved. Short-duration weather markets at full certainty this close to the resolution window carry near-zero volatility risk, but any official measurement deviation would reprice immediately given the June 20 12:00 UTC deadline.

Key unknown: The single data point that matters is the official China Meteorological Administration peak reading for Chongqing on June 20. If that number is anything other than 33°C, this market reprices completely before close.

Frequently Asked Questions

It means traders have priced the 33°C outcome as a near-certain fact. The market has allocated all probability mass to one bracket, leaving every competing outcome at zero.

Any official peak reading other than 33°C collapses this bracket to zero. A reading of 32°C or 34°C would immediately reprice the corresponding competing bracket to 100%.

The China Meteorological Administration's official Chongqing station reading for June 20 is the only trigger. Real-time temperature data matching or deviating from 33°C would either hold or reprice the market.

The contract resolves at 12:00 UTC on June 20, 2026. It is an intraday weather market with a very short remaining window.

Total volume is $60,819 with $86,678 in liquidity. Volume is modest, and $51,342 arrived in 24 hours. Thin short-duration markets can reprice sharply on a single confirmed measurement.

We aggregate the live positions of the top 50 Polymarket whales (ranked by 30-day tracked volume) into one composite reading per market. It refreshes every hour. The percentage shows how many of those whales hold YES versus NO; the net dollar position shows the cohort's directional exposure in dollars.

A convergence event fires when three or more tracked wallets buy the same outcome on the same market within a four-hour window. We surface these in the activity feed and the VIP digest.

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Market Resolved Outcome: YES
Final Price 100%
Settled Jun 20, 2026
Duration 2 days

Resolution Analysis

Official Reading Confirms 33°C

The China Meteorological Administration publishes a peak reading of exactly 33°C for Chongqing on June 20. The 33°C bracket holds at 100% through resolution, and all traders holding YES collect. This is the outcome the market has fully priced. No repricing occurs before the 12:00 UTC close.

Peak Comes In at 34°C or Higher

A hotter-than-priced afternoon pushes the Chongqing official reading to 34°C or above. The 33°C bracket collapses instantly to zero. The 34°C or 35°C bracket reprices to 100%, and all capital in the 33°C outcome loses. Late-afternoon readings are the highest-risk window for this scenario.

Reading Falls to 32°C

Cooler conditions than expected push the official Chongqing peak to 32°C. The 33°C bracket collapses and the 32°C bracket reprices to 100%. This would require a measurable miss from current forecast and real-time data, but cloud cover or a late-day weather shift could produce it.

Station Data Discrepancy

Different Chongqing weather stations report different peak readings on the same day, creating ambiguity at resolution. If the market's designated resolution source differs from widely-cited China Meteorological Administration data, the settlement call could surprise traders holding the 33°C bracket at full price.

Key macro factor: Chongqing's Sichuan Basin location makes it one of China's hottest summer cities, and late June temperatures in the low-to-mid 30s are within the normal seasonal range, providing no unusual macro climate signal for this contract.

Market Timeline

Jun 18, 4:02 AM
Market Created
Jun 18, 4:10 AM
Market Opened
Saturday, Jun 20
Market Resolution

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