August
August · June · July
78climate match
United States · 1991–2020
Best time to visit
Brainerd.
August leads for comfortable weather in Brainerd: typically 25.8°C by day, 12.6°C at night, with 91 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.
Best comfortAugust
Typical high25.8°C
Typical low12.6°C
Rain in August91 mm
July
July · August · June
54climate match
September
September · May · August
80climate match
The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against August’s 78 — days reach only -6.8°C, 31° 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
5-6.8° / -18.7°
Feb
5-3.5° / -16.9°
Mar
53.7° / -9.2°
Apr
2211.8° / -1.6°
May
5219.3° / 5.8°
Jun
7424.4° / 11.6°
Jul
7326.8° / 14.2°
Aug
7825.8° / 12.6°
Sep
6821.1° / 7.9°
Oct
3013° / 1.2°
Nov
53.5° / -6.1°
Dec
5-3.9° / -13.5°
| Month | Day | Night | Rain | Wet days | Daylight | Comfort | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -6.8°C | -18.7°C | 20 mm | 4.5 | 8 h 58 | 5 | Strong coverage |
| February | -3.5°C | -16.9°C | 20 mm | 3.9 | 10 h 15 | 5 | Strong coverage |
| March | 3.7°C | -9.2°C | 37 mm | 5.5 | 11 h 45 | 5 | Strong coverage |
| April | 11.8°C | -1.6°C | 64 mm | 7.3 | 13 h 29 | 22 | Strong coverage |
| May | 19.3°C | 5.8°C | 101 mm | 10.1 | 14 h 57 | 52 | Strong coverage |
| June | 24.4°C | 11.6°C | 118 mm | 10.7 | 15 h 47 | 74 | Strong coverage |
| July | 26.8°C | 14.2°C | 111 mm | 9.5 | 15 h 27 | 73 | Strong coverage |
| August | 25.8°C | 12.6°C | 91 mm | 7.7 | 14 h 10 | 78 | Strong coverage |
| September | 21.1°C | 7.9°C | 76 mm | 7.8 | 12 h 29 | 68 | Strong coverage |
| October | 13°C | 1.2°C | 71 mm | 7.8 | 10 h 49 | 30 | Strong coverage |
| November | 3.5°C | -6.1°C | 38 mm | 5.2 | 9 h 21 | 5 | Strong coverage |
| December | -3.9°C | -13.5°C | 26 mm | 5.1 | 8 h 37 | 5 | Strong coverage |
What has changed
Brainerd runs +0.4°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
+1.0
Feb
-0.6
Mar
+1.2
Apr
-1.7
May
-0.3
Jun
+0.6
Jul
0.0
Aug
0.0
Sep
+2.5
Oct
0.0
Nov
+0.2
Dec
+1.7
| Month | Record high | Record low | Wettest day | Wettest / driest month | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 13.3°C25 Jan 1981 | -44.4°C15 Jan 1972 | 25 mm5 Jan 1997 | 59 mm1969 · driest 1 mm in 1981 | 71 |
| February | 13.9°C23 Feb 1961 | -47.8°C2 Feb 1996 | 28 mm25 Feb 2007 | 48 mm1981 · driest 0 mm in 1958 | 72 |
| March | 25.6°C27 Mar 2007 | -36.1°C1 Mar 1980 | 35 mm20 Mar 2012 | 90 mm2009 · driest 4 mm in 1959 | 71 |
| April | 34.4°C22 Apr 1980 | -24.4°C1 Apr 1975 | 77 mm28 Apr 1986 | 167 mm1986 · driest 4 mm in 1987 | 70 |
| May | 35.0°C29 May 2006 | -8.9°C4 May 1967 | 76 mm31 May 1959 | 239 mm1959 · driest 8 mm in 2021 | 71 |
| June | 37.8°C19 Jun 1988 | 0.0°C8 Jun 1978 | 107 mm20 Jun 2012 | 207 mm1957 · driest 22 mm in 1995 | 71 |
| July | 38.9°C6 Jul 1988 | 2.2°C23 Jul 1978 | 121 mm8 Jul 2002 | 296 mm2016 · driest 9 mm in 2023 | 71 |
| August | 37.8°C19 Aug 1976 | -1.7°C15 Aug 1976 | 81 mm15 Aug 1978 | 222 mm2017 · driest 1 mm in 2003 | 71 |
| September | 38.9°C4 Sep 2023 | -7.8°C22 Sep 1974 | 88 mm30 Sep 2019 | 204 mm2019 · driest 6 mm in 2024 | 70 |
| October | 31.7°C2 Oct 2023 | -15.6°C27 Oct 1976 | 80 mm5 Oct 2005 | 179 mm1984 · driest 5 mm in 1964 | 68 |
| November | 23.9°C5 Nov 2020 | -31.1°C30 Nov 1964 | 46 mm9 Nov 1977 | 96 mm1996 · driest 4 mm in 2007 | 72 |
| December | 15.6°C2 Dec 1962 | -41.7°C19 Dec 1983 | 45 mm16 Dec 2021 | 103 mm2023 · driest 2 mm in 1958 | 72 |
| Month | Days 25°C+ | Days 30°C+ | Frost nights | Heavy rain (10 mm+) | Snow days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0 | 0 | 31 | <1 | 6 |
| February | 0 | 0 | 28 | <1 | 5 |
| March | 0 | 0 | 29 | 1 | 4 |
| April | <1 | <1 | 20 | 2 | 2 |
| May | 6 | <1 | 3 | 4 | <1 |
| June | 15 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| July | 23 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| August | 19 | 4 | <1 | 3 | 0 |
| September | 8 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| October | 2 | <1 | 15 | 2 | <1 |
| November | 0 | 0 | 27 | 1 | 3 |
| December | 0 | 0 | 31 | <1 | 7 |
The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was June (scoring 82); on 2011–2025 it is August (80). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.
| Month | Warm & dry days | Wet days | Washouts | Week with 3+ wet days | Daytime mean has ranged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0% | 14% | <1% | 9% | -11.0–-3.2°C |
| February | 0% | 12% | 1% | 8% | -7.8–0.4°C |
| March | 1% | 17% | 3% | 14% | -0.2–7.1°C |
| April | 11% | 24% | 7% | 27% | 8.3–15.2°C |
| May | 38% | 29% | 10% | 36% | 16.9–21.9°C |
| June | 58% | 34% | 11% | 44% | 22.1–26.7°C |
| July | 70% | 29% | 10% | 31% | 25.0–29.2°C |
| August | 71% | 26% | 10% | 28% | 23.6–28.0°C |
| September | 45% | 25% | 7% | 27% | 18.4–23.1°C |
| October | 16% | 21% | 6% | 20% | 10.6–16.2°C |
| November | 1% | 16% | 4% | 11% | -0.9–7.0°C |
| December | 0% | 15% | 2% | 12% | -8.5–-0.9°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.
The evidence behind this page
Nearby, measured,
and named.
- Place identity
- GeoNames 5019116
- NOAA station
- USC00210939 · BRAINERD
- Station distance
- 1.7 km from the place centre
- Climate period
- 1991–2020
- Minimum month coverage
- 28 usable years
- Daylight
- Calculated from latitude 46.36°, 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.