United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Dakota Junction.

August leads for comfortable weather in Dakota Junction: typically 26.4°C by day, 12.7°C at night, with 65 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortAugust

Typical high26.4°C

Typical low12.7°C

Rain in August65 mm

Comfort

August

August · June · July

81climate match

Beach

August

August · July · June

61climate match

Outdoors

September

September · May · June

86climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against August’s 81 — days reach only -9.7°C, 34° 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

5-9.7° / -19.2°

Feb

5-5.6° / -16.4°

Mar

51.7° / -9.1°

Apr

3212° / -1°

May

5919.7° / 5.7°

Jun

8024.4° / 11.6°

Jul

7826.8° / 13.8°

Aug

8126.4° / 12.7°

Sep

7120.8° / 7.9°

Oct

3312.1° / 1.4°

Nov

52.2° / -6.3°

Dec

5-6.2° / -15°

Monthly climate evidence for Dakota Junction — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-9.7°C	-19.2°C	37 mm	0.6	8 h 45	5	Good coverage
February	-5.6°C	-16.4°C	25 mm	0.9	10 h 08	5	Good coverage
March	1.7°C	-9.1°C	11 mm	0.8	11 h 44	5	Good coverage
April	12°C	-1°C	24 mm	2.4	13 h 35	32	Strong coverage
May	19.7°C	5.7°C	77 mm	7.2	15 h 09	59	Good coverage
June	24.4°C	11.6°C	93 mm	8.4	16 h 02	80	Good coverage
July	26.8°C	13.8°C	87 mm	7	15 h 41	78	Good coverage
August	26.4°C	12.7°C	65 mm	6.1	14 h 19	81	Good coverage
September	20.8°C	7.9°C	66 mm	4.9	12 h 31	71	Good coverage
October	12.1°C	1.4°C	51 mm	4.3	10 h 44	33	Good coverage
November	2.2°C	-6.3°C	35 mm	1.3	9 h 10	5	Good coverage
December	-6.2°C	-15°C	24 mm	0.8	8 h 22	5	Good coverage

Records at THIEF RVR FALLS 2, 1972–2017
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	7.2°C10 Jan 2013	-41.1°C20 Jan 1996	127 mm1 Jan 2011	305 mm2011 · driest 0 mm in 2004	40
February	12.2°C22 Feb 2000	-42.8°C1 Feb 1996	102 mm18 Feb 2013	279 mm2013 · driest 0 mm in 2006	36
March	20.0°C15 Mar 2015	-33.9°C24 Mar 1974	51 mm5 Mar 2013	51 mm2013 · driest 0 mm in 2011	40
April	36.7°C21 Apr 1980	-23.3°C1 Apr 1975	76 mm15 Apr 2013	105 mm1979 · driest 0 mm in 1983	42
May	36.1°C21 May 1980	-7.2°C2 May 2005	102 mm20 May 2013	219 mm2004 · driest 3 mm in 1980	40
June	37.2°C17 Jun 1995	-1.1°C3 Jun 1985	83 mm8 Jun 1984	186 mm1981 · driest 1 mm in 2009	42
July	40.0°C5 Jul 1988	1.7°C1 Jul 2001	152 mm2 Jul 1975	176 mm1975 · driest 4 mm in 2017	40
August	38.3°C3 Aug 1989	-0.6°C20 Aug 2004	177 mm20 Aug 1983	196 mm1983 · driest 0 mm in 2010	35
September	36.1°C5 Sep 1978	-5.6°C21 Sep 2002	77 mm24 Sep 2010	165 mm2010 · driest 0 mm in 2015	36
October	30.6°C5 Oct 2011	-14.4°C30 Oct 1991	127 mm4 Oct 2012	154 mm1982 · driest 0 mm in 2002	37
November	22.2°C5 Nov 2016	-33.9°C30 Nov 1985	127 mm23 Nov 2010	254 mm1997 · driest 0 mm in 2012	36
December	11.7°C2 Dec 1982	-37.8°C31 Dec 1973	102 mm24 Dec 2009	191 mm2009 · driest 0 mm in 1983	40

Typical days per month at THIEF RVR FALLS 2, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	24	<1	4
February	0	0	23	<1	3
March	0	0	22	<1	2
April	<1	0	16	<1	1
May	5	1	5	2	<1
June	11	2	0	3	0
July	18	5	0	3	0
August	17	4	<1	2	0
September	6	1	2	2	0
October	<1	<1	12	1	<1
November	0	0	22	<1	4
December	0	0	23	<1	4

How often, not how much — every day in THIEF RVR FALLS 2’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%	4%	1%	3%	-15.2–-5.6°C
February	0%	4%	1%	<1%	-10.4–-1.2°C
March	<1%	4%	1%	1%	-3.2–5.2°C
April	15%	10%	2%	8%	7.1–16.9°C
May	48%	22%	7%	23%	17.7–23.5°C
June	66%	27%	10%	33%	22.2–26.8°C
July	77%	24%	9%	19%	25.5–30.3°C
August	77%	22%	7%	22%	24.4–29.1°C
September	50%	17%	8%	17%	17.7–23.2°C
October	13%	15%	5%	13%	10.1–15.1°C
November	<1%	8%	2%	3%	-2.3–7.0°C
December	0%	6%	2%	5%	-11.8–-3.1°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.

1973Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 24-year average. Warmest: 1998. Coolest: 1996.2013

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5023756
NOAA station: USC00218247 · THIEF RVR FALLS 2
Station distance: 3 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 17 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 48.16°, 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 THIEF RVR FALLS 2 is what differs

Thief River Falls→Saint Hilaire→Viking→Carpenters Corner→Hazel→River Valley→

Or put two places side by side: Dakota Junction vs Thief River Falls

Best time to visitDakota Junction.

August

August

September

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Dakota Junction.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.