United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Albert Lea.

August leads for comfortable weather in Albert Lea: typically 26.3°C by day, 15.3°C at night, with 108 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortAugust

Typical high26.3°C

Typical low15.3°C

Rain in August108 mm

Comfort

August

August · September · June

77climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

62climate match

Outdoors

September

September · May · October

75climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against August’s 77 — days reach only -5.3°C, 29° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

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

5-5.3° / -14.6°

Feb

5-2.7° / -12.5°

Mar

54.3° / -5.2°

Apr

2612.9° / 1.8°

May

5620° / 8.8°

Jun

7325.7° / 14.8°

Jul

6727.6° / 16.8°

Aug

7726.3° / 15.3°

Sep

7522.8° / 10.4°

Oct

4115° / 3°

Nov

55.6° / -3.9°

Dec

5-2° / -10.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Albert Lea — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-5.3°C	-14.6°C	21 mm	4.5	9 h 16	5	Strong coverage
February	-2.7°C	-12.5°C	22 mm	4.3	10 h 25	5	Strong coverage
March	4.3°C	-5.2°C	49 mm	6.4	11 h 47	5	Strong coverage
April	12.9°C	1.8°C	95 mm	8.8	13 h 22	26	Strong coverage
May	20°C	8.8°C	123 mm	10.8	14 h 41	56	Strong coverage
June	25.7°C	14.8°C	138 mm	10.5	15 h 25	73	Strong coverage
July	27.6°C	16.8°C	122 mm	9	15 h 08	67	Strong coverage
August	26.3°C	15.3°C	108 mm	8.7	13 h 59	77	Strong coverage
September	22.8°C	10.4°C	94 mm	7.4	12 h 27	75	Strong coverage
October	15°C	3°C	65 mm	7	10 h 56	41	Strong coverage
November	5.6°C	-3.9°C	39 mm	4.5	9 h 36	5	Strong coverage
December	-2°C	-10.5°C	29 mm	5.5	8 h 57	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Albert Lea runs +0.6°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

+1.2

Feb

-0.3

Mar

+1.5

Apr

-0.7

May

-0.4

Jun

+0.4

Jul

-0.5

Aug

-0.3

Sep

+2.1

Oct

+0.5

Nov

+0.9

Dec

+2.6

August daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 26.0°C.

Records at ALBERT LEA 3SE, 1893–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	17.8°C25 Jan 1944	-37.2°C12 Jan 1912	38 mm4 Jan 1949	77 mm1897 · driest 0 mm in 1925	132
February	21.7°C27 Feb 2024	-36.1°C2 Feb 1996	38 mm21 Feb 1969	129 mm1915 · driest 0 mm in 1910	132
March	28.9°C23 Mar 1910	-33.9°C1 Mar 1962	45 mm26 Mar 1950	113 mm1983 · driest 0 mm in 1910	132
April	34.4°C28 Apr 1910	-16.1°C6 Apr 1979	97 mm24 Apr 1990	219 mm2006 · driest 12 mm in 1943	132
May	40.0°C31 May 1934	-6.1°C9 May 1966	107 mm30 May 1980	238 mm1902 · driest 23 mm in 1934	133
June	40.0°C27 Jun 1934	1.1°C1 Jun 1979	191 mm15 Jun 1978	305 mm2024 · driest 6 mm in 1933	133
July	40.0°C24 Jul 1940	5.6°C30 Jul 1903	170 mm31 Jul 1961	344 mm1943 · driest 8 mm in 1937	132
August	38.3°C16 Aug 1988	2.8°C20 Aug 1950	129 mm15 Aug 1993	312 mm1928 · driest 12 mm in 1949	131
September	39.4°C6 Sep 1922	-5.6°C26 Sep 1942	184 mm18 Sep 1926	262 mm2016 · driest 10 mm in 1898	132
October	34.4°C4 Oct 1997	-16.1°C29 Oct 1925	83 mm26 Oct 2016	189 mm1941 · driest 0 mm in 1952	132
November	26.1°C9 Nov 2006	-27.8°C27 Nov 1977	51 mm30 Nov 1991	163 mm1909 · driest 0 mm in 1917	132
December	19.4°C2 Dec 1998	-33.9°C19 Dec 1983	43 mm10 Dec 1911	88 mm1911 · driest 0 mm in 1930	132

Typical days per month at ALBERT LEA 3SE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	31	<1	6
February	0	0	27	<1	5
March	<1	0	25	2	3
April	1	<1	11	3	1
May	7	2	<1	4	<1
June	18	6	0	5	0
July	25	8	0	4	0
August	21	5	0	3	0
September	12	3	<1	3	0
October	3	<1	10	2	<1
November	<1	0	23	1	2
December	0	0	30	<1	5

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was August (scoring 82); on 2011–2025 it is September (87). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in ALBERT LEA 3SE’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	0%	13%	2%	7%	-9.4–-0.6°C
February	0%	13%	2%	7%	-6.8–1.4°C
March	3%	18%	5%	15%	0.2–8.8°C
April	16%	26%	9%	29%	9.5–16.8°C
May	41%	31%	12%	37%	18.0–23.6°C
June	64%	30%	14%	36%	23.4–28.5°C
July	75%	24%	11%	24%	26.4–31.0°C
August	74%	24%	10%	24%	25.1–29.4°C
September	55%	23%	9%	24%	20.5–25.4°C
October	25%	19%	7%	17%	12.2–19.1°C
November	2%	15%	4%	11%	1.9–9.1°C
December	0%	14%	3%	8%	-6.4–1.4°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 120-year average. Warmest: 1931. Coolest: 1893.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5016024
NOAA station: USC00210075 · ALBERT LEA 3SE
Station distance: 7.1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 29 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 43.65°, 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.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from ALBERT LEA 3SE is what differs

Clarks Grove→Glenville→Geneva→Emmons→Hollandale→Hayward→

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