United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Detroit Lakes.

August leads for comfortable weather in Detroit Lakes: typically 26.3°C by day, 13.3°C at night, with 83 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortAugust

Typical high26.3°C

Typical low13.3°C

Rain in August83 mm

Comfort

August

August · July · June

79climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

57climate match

Outdoors

September

September · May · August

76climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against August’s 79 — days reach only -6.7°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

5-6.7° / -17.8°

Feb

5-4° / -16.2°

Mar

53.4° / -8.2°

Apr

2912.4° / -0.6°

May

5520.2° / 6.3°

Jun

7125.1° / 12.1°

Jul

7227.3° / 14.5°

Aug

7926.3° / 13.3°

Sep

6921.9° / 9°

Oct

2812.9° / 2°

Nov

53.6° / -6°

Dec

5-4.2° / -13.8°

Monthly climate evidence for Detroit Lakes — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-6.7°C	-17.8°C	17 mm	4.2	8 h 55	5	Good coverage
February	-4°C	-16.2°C	17 mm	4.4	10 h 13	5	Good coverage
March	3.4°C	-8.2°C	27 mm	5.1	11 h 45	5	Good coverage
April	12.4°C	-0.6°C	50 mm	6.2	13 h 31	29	Good coverage
May	20.2°C	6.3°C	101 mm	11.2	15 h 00	55	Good coverage
June	25.1°C	12.1°C	124 mm	11.4	15 h 50	71	Good coverage
July	27.3°C	14.5°C	106 mm	9.8	15 h 31	72	Good coverage
August	26.3°C	13.3°C	83 mm	7.7	14 h 12	79	Good coverage
September	21.9°C	9°C	91 mm	8.4	12 h 30	69	Good coverage
October	12.9°C	2°C	84 mm	8.7	10 h 48	28	Strong coverage
November	3.6°C	-6°C	29 mm	5.1	9 h 18	5	Good coverage
December	-4.2°C	-13.8°C	29 mm	6.8	8 h 33	5	Good coverage

What has changed

Detroit Lakes 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

+2.3

Feb

+0.5

Mar

+1.0

Apr

-1.9

May

0.0

Jun

+0.5

Jul

-0.2

Aug

-0.8

Sep

+1.9

Oct

-0.2

Nov

+1.3

Dec

+3.1

August daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 24.9°C.

Records at DETROIT LAKES 1 NNE, 1895–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	12.8°C24 Jan 1942	-46.1°C12 Jan 1912	37 mm5 Jan 1949	65 mm1975 · driest 0 mm in 1928	123
February	15.0°C27 Feb 1958	-47.2°C9 Feb 1899	40 mm6 Feb 1946	59 mm1939 · driest 0 mm in 1968	123
March	25.6°C23 Mar 1910	-40.0°C4 Mar 1917	38 mm23 Mar 2011	70 mm1951 · driest 0 mm in 1937	125
April	36.7°C21 Apr 1980	-24.4°C2 Apr 1899	57 mm30 Apr 1991	131 mm1986 · driest 2 mm in 1980	124
May	36.1°C31 May 1934	-9.4°C5 May 1968	90 mm12 May 2004	225 mm1985 · driest 0 mm in 2021	126
June	38.9°C30 Jun 1921	-2.2°C1 Jun 1917	108 mm21 Jun 2013	277 mm1915 · driest 17 mm in 1932	125
July	41.7°C11 Jul 1936	0.6°C1 Jul 1969	114 mm21 Jul 1909	309 mm1952 · driest 10 mm in 1939	126
August	38.3°C17 Aug 1988	-0.6°C23 Aug 1908	137 mm11 Aug 1909	276 mm1900 · driest 7 mm in 1970	124
September	37.8°C10 Sep 1931	-9.4°C29 Sep 1899	84 mm4 Sep 1913	251 mm2004 · driest 8 mm in 1902	126
October	32.8°C11 Oct 2015	-23.3°C26 Oct 1919	89 mm10 Oct 1973	169 mm2008 · driest 2 mm in 1991	124
November	23.9°C5 Nov 1904	-35.6°C30 Nov 1905	36 mm11 Nov 1919	99 mm2000 · driest 0 mm in 1904	120
December	15.6°C7 Dec 1939	-44.4°C14 Dec 1901	38 mm8 Dec 2016	94 mm2016 · driest 0 mm in 1913	125

Typical days per month at DETROIT LAKES 1 NNE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	28	<1	6
February	0	0	26	<1	6
March	0	0	26	<1	4
April	1	<1	17	2	2
May	7	2	4	3	<1
June	15	3	<1	4	0
July	21	7	0	3	0
August	18	4	0	3	0
September	8	2	2	3	0
October	1	<1	12	3	1
November	0	0	24	<1	4
December	0	0	27	<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 August (86). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in DETROIT LAKES 1 NNE’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%	1%	7%	-13.1–-3.7°C
February	0%	13%	<1%	6%	-10.3–-0.7°C
March	<1%	14%	2%	9%	-2.4–6.6°C
April	13%	22%	6%	22%	7.5–15.8°C
May	39%	30%	9%	34%	16.3–23.0°C
June	57%	35%	13%	41%	21.7–26.9°C
July	71%	28%	10%	27%	25.1–29.8°C
August	71%	26%	9%	26%	23.9–28.8°C
September	47%	24%	8%	24%	18.3–23.3°C
October	17%	20%	6%	17%	10.5–16.5°C
November	<1%	15%	2%	10%	-1.5–6.2°C
December	0%	15%	1%	9%	-9.5–-1.5°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.

1897Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 104-year average. Warmest: 1999. Coolest: 1916.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5024237
NOAA station: USC00212142 · DETROIT LAKES 1 NNE
Station distance: 2.3 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 20 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 46.82°, 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 DETROIT LAKES 1 NNE is what differs

Frazee→Lake Park→Audubon→Vergas→Callaway→Hitterdal→

Or put two places side by side: Detroit Lakes vs Frazee

Best time to visitDetroit Lakes.