United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Dakota.

September leads for comfortable weather in Dakota: typically 23.6°C by day, 11.9°C at night, with 92 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortSeptember

Typical high23.6°C

Typical low11.9°C

Rain in September92 mm

Comfort

September

September · August · June

81climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

72climate match

Outdoors

May

May · September · October

72climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against September’s 81 — days reach only -3.1°C, 27° 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

5-3.1° / -12.4°

Feb

5-0.4° / -10.4°

Mar

56.9° / -3.7°

Apr

3514.9° / 3.2°

May

6621.7° / 9.6°

Jun

7027.1° / 15.4°

Jul

6329.2° / 17.7°

Aug

7127.9° / 16.4°

Sep

8123.6° / 11.9°

Oct

4815.9° / 5.1°

Nov

107.1° / -1.7°

Dec

5-0.3° / -8.3°

Monthly climate evidence for Dakota — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-3.1°C	-12.4°C	32 mm	6.5	9 h 14	5	Strong coverage
February	-0.4°C	-10.4°C	30 mm	5.5	10 h 24	5	Strong coverage
March	6.9°C	-3.7°C	52 mm	7.4	11 h 47	5	Strong coverage
April	14.9°C	3.2°C	95 mm	9.2	13 h 22	35	Strong coverage
May	21.7°C	9.6°C	110 mm	10.4	14 h 43	66	Strong coverage
June	27.1°C	15.4°C	129 mm	10.2	15 h 27	70	Strong coverage
July	29.2°C	17.7°C	107 mm	8.3	15 h 10	63	Strong coverage
August	27.9°C	16.4°C	99 mm	8	14 h	71	Strong coverage
September	23.6°C	11.9°C	92 mm	7.8	12 h 27	81	Strong coverage
October	15.9°C	5.1°C	63 mm	6.9	10 h 55	48	Strong coverage
November	7.1°C	-1.7°C	47 mm	6	9 h 35	10	Strong coverage
December	-0.3°C	-8.3°C	38 mm	6.8	8 h 55	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Dakota runs +1.4°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

+2.1

Feb

+0.8

Mar

+2.4

Apr

-0.4

May

+0.7

Jun

+1.4

Jul

+0.7

Aug

+0.9

Sep

+2.5

Oct

+0.9

Nov

+1.5

Dec

+2.8

September daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 25.2°C.

Records at LA CROSSE MUNI AP, 1938–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	14.4°C30 Jan 2025	-38.3°C30 Jan 1951	36 mm5 Jan 1946	77 mm1996 · driest 1 mm in 2025	88
February	20.6°C27 Feb 2024	-37.8°C8 Feb 1971	33 mm2 Feb 1983	77 mm2019 · driest 1 mm in 1969	88
March	30.0°C28 Mar 2025	-33.3°C1 Mar 1962	46 mm22 Mar 2011	97 mm1951 · driest 8 mm in 1978	88
April	33.9°C22 Apr 1980	-13.9°C6 Apr 1982	99 mm27 Apr 1975	186 mm1973 · driest 15 mm in 1966	89
May	36.7°C27 May 2018	-3.3°C3 May 1971	83 mm21 May 1945	247 mm2004 · driest 24 mm in 1988	89
June	38.9°C21 Jun 1988	0.0°C4 Jun 1945	114 mm18 Jun 2011	274 mm1993 · driest 34 mm in 1989	89
July	42.2°C13 Jul 1995	5.0°C22 Jul 1947	133 mm27 Jul 1987	238 mm1987 · driest 4 mm in 1967	89
August	40.6°C1 Aug 1988	2.2°C20 Aug 1950	142 mm7 Aug 2021	349 mm2007 · driest 14 mm in 1976	88
September	37.8°C9 Sep 1955	-5.0°C29 Sep 1949	85 mm19 Sep 1983	267 mm1965 · driest 11 mm in 1952	88
October	33.9°C6 Oct 1963	-10.0°C30 Oct 1988	58 mm17 Oct 1998	153 mm2017 · driest 1 mm in 1952	87
November	25.0°C2 Nov 1938	-26.7°C29 Nov 1947	71 mm1 Nov 1991	158 mm1991 · driest 0 mm in 1976	87
December	20.6°C15 Dec 2021	-34.4°C19 Dec 1983	43 mm13 Dec 2015	125 mm2015 · driest 0 mm in 1943	87

Typical days per month at LA CROSSE MUNI AP, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	30	<1	9
February	0	0	27	<1	7
March	<1	0	23	2	5
April	2	<1	8	3	2
May	10	3	<1	4	0
June	22	9	0	4	0
July	28	14	0	4	0
August	25	10	0	3	0
September	13	4	<1	3	0
October	3	<1	5	2	<1
November	0	0	19	1	3
December	0	0	28	<1	8

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was June (scoring 81); 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 LA CROSSE MUNI AP’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%	19%	2%	15%	-7.5–-0.6°C
February	0%	17%	2%	13%	-4.1–3.7°C
March	3%	23%	5%	24%	1.9–10.4°C
April	19%	28%	9%	35%	11.2–17.5°C
May	44%	32%	11%	40%	19.1–24.0°C
June	64%	33%	12%	40%	24.7–28.9°C
July	73%	27%	10%	27%	26.8–30.8°C
August	73%	26%	10%	27%	25.6–29.8°C
September	56%	26%	9%	30%	20.9–25.6°C
October	25%	21%	6%	19%	13.3–18.8°C
November	2%	19%	5%	17%	2.8–9.5°C
December	0%	19%	2%	16%	-4.6–2.5°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.

1939Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 86-year average. Warmest: 1998. Coolest: 1950.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5023750
NOAA station: USW00014920 · LA CROSSE MUNI AP
Station distance: 9.4 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 43.91°, 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 LA CROSSE MUNI AP is what differs

North La Crosse→Onalaska→Holmen→La Crescent→French Island→Brice Prairie→

Or put two places side by side: Dakota vs North La Crosse

Best time to visitDakota.

September

July

May

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Dakota runs +1.4°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Dakota.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Dakota runs +1.4°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.