United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Minneapolis.

September leads for comfortable weather in Minneapolis: typically 28.5°C by day, 14.2°C at night, with 68 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high28.5°C

Typical low14.2°C

Rain in September68 mm

Comfort

September

September · May · October

77climate match

Beach

September

September · June · August

71climate match

Outdoors

October

October · April · March

84climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 77 — days reach only 5.2°C, 19° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal, and nights drop to -6.8°C.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

55.2° / -6.8°

Feb

108.1° / -5°

Mar

3814.5° / 0.2°

Apr

6320.2° / 5.6°

May

7125.3° / 11.7°

Jun

5831.3° / 17.5°

Jul

4134.3° / 20.2°

Aug

4932.9° / 19°

Sep

7728.5° / 14.2°

Oct

7121.2° / 7°

Nov

3613° / -0.1°

Dec

56.3° / -5.2°

Monthly climate evidence for Minneapolis — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	5.2°C	-6.8°C	22 mm	3.4	9 h 42	5	Strong coverage
February	8.1°C	-5°C	29 mm	4	10 h 40	10	Strong coverage
March	14.5°C	0.2°C	49 mm	5.6	11 h 50	38	Strong coverage
April	20.2°C	5.6°C	63 mm	6.5	13 h 10	63	Strong coverage
May	25.3°C	11.7°C	132 mm	8.9	14 h 17	71	Strong coverage
June	31.3°C	17.5°C	101 mm	7.4	14 h 54	58	Strong coverage
July	34.3°C	20.2°C	112 mm	8.2	14 h 40	41	Strong coverage
August	32.9°C	19°C	107 mm	7.7	13 h 42	49	Strong coverage
September	28.5°C	14.2°C	68 mm	5.6	12 h 24	77	Strong coverage
October	21.2°C	7°C	61 mm	5	11 h 06	71	Strong coverage
November	13°C	-0.1°C	32 mm	4.2	9 h 59	36	Strong coverage
December	6.3°C	-5.2°C	33 mm	3.9	9 h 26	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Minneapolis runs +0.3°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.

Jan

+0.7

Feb

-0.5

Mar

+1.1

Apr

-0.7

May

-0.7

Jun

+0.9

Jul

-0.3

Aug

-0.6

Sep

+1.4

Oct

-0.1

Nov

+1.0

Dec

+1.3

September daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 28.6°C.

Records at MINNEAPOLIS, 1892–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	26.7°C31 Jan 1989	-30.0°C8 Jan 1913	42 mm31 Jan 1999	70 mm1949 · driest 0 mm in 1950	132
February	30.6°C29 Feb 1972	-33.9°C12 Feb 1899	64 mm6 Feb 1928	128 mm1911 · driest 0 mm in 1904	132
March	36.1°C22 Mar 2026	-25.0°C11 Mar 1948	74 mm30 Mar 1998	218 mm1973 · driest 0 mm in 1910	132
April	38.3°C23 Apr 1989	-13.3°C5 Apr 1920	88 mm25 Apr 2015	165 mm1944 · driest 3 mm in 1989	132
May	40.0°C31 May 1934	-6.1°C1 May 1909	112 mm27 May 1953	305 mm2019 · driest 3 mm in 1966	132
June	45.0°C30 Jun 1980	4.4°C3 Jun 1946	113 mm21 Jun 1951	377 mm1951 · driest 7 mm in 1952	132
July	47.2°C24 Jul 1936	8.9°C3 Jul 1924	140 mm26 Jul 1990	424 mm1993 · driest 1 mm in 1974	132
August	48.3°C13 Aug 1936	5.0°C29 Aug 1893	136 mm21 Aug 1966	233 mm1977 · driest 0 mm in 1971	130
September	46.1°C3 Sep 1947	-2.2°C29 Sep 1916	161 mm3 Sep 1942	413 mm1967 · driest 0 mm in 1956	131
October	38.9°C5 Oct 1947	-12.2°C30 Oct 1917	97 mm11 Oct 1973	191 mm2018 · driest 0 mm in 1999	131
November	30.6°C8 Nov 2006	-20.0°C22 Nov 1929	62 mm2 Nov 1998	162 mm1909 · driest 0 mm in 1989	128
December	27.8°C6 Dec 1939	-31.1°C22 Dec 1989	54 mm11 Dec 2007	93 mm1913 · driest 0 mm in 1976	128

Typical days per month at MINNEAPOLIS, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	29	<1	3
February	<1	0	23	<1	3
March	3	<1	16	2	2
April	8	2	5	2	<1
May	18	7	<1	4	0
June	28	20	0	3	0
July	30	27	0	3	0
August	30	24	0	3	0
September	23	13	0	2	0
October	10	3	4	2	<1
November	1	0	16	<1	1
December	0	0	28	1	3

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was May (scoring 78); on 2011–2025 it is September (77). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in MINNEAPOLIS’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	1%	10%	1%	5%	0.4–9.0°C
February	7%	12%	3%	7%	2.3–12.5°C
March	24%	16%	4%	12%	9.4–18.1°C
April	48%	21%	7%	21%	17.5–22.8°C
May	63%	27%	12%	31%	22.4–27.8°C
June	74%	26%	11%	26%	28.3–33.9°C
July	78%	22%	9%	21%	31.3–37.7°C
August	79%	21%	9%	19%	30.6–36.3°C
September	78%	19%	8%	16%	25.9–31.6°C
October	60%	15%	5%	12%	18.6–24.9°C
November	16%	12%	3%	8%	9.9–15.9°C
December	1%	10%	2%	5%	2.7–9.6°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1893Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 126-year average. Warmest: 1938. Coolest: 1912.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 4275586
NOAA station: USC00145363 · MINNEAPOLIS
Station distance: 0.4 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 39.12°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

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The whole year,without the guesswork.

Minneapolis runs +0.3°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Minneapolis.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Minneapolis runs +0.3°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.