United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Pelican Rapids.

August leads for comfortable weather in Pelican Rapids: typically 25.8°C by day, 14.6°C at night, with 77 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortAugust

Typical high25.8°C

Typical low14.6°C

Rain in August77 mm

Comfort

August

August · June · July

84climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

61climate match

Outdoors

September

September · May · August

84climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against August’s 84 — days reach only -7.5°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

5-7.5° / -17.7°

Feb

5-4.9° / -15.7°

Mar

52.7° / -7.5°

Apr

2811.8° / 0.1°

May

5919.5° / 7.5°

Jun

8124.5° / 13.7°

Jul

7626.7° / 15.6°

Aug

8425.8° / 14.6°

Sep

7321.4° / 9.6°

Oct

3212.6° / 2.1°

Nov

53.3° / -5.8°

Dec

5-4.3° / -13.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Pelican Rapids — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-7.5°C	-17.7°C	19 mm	4.1	8 h 57	5	Strong coverage
February	-4.9°C	-15.7°C	18 mm	3.7	10 h 14	5	Strong coverage
March	2.7°C	-7.5°C	28 mm	4.6	11 h 45	5	Good coverage
April	11.8°C	0.1°C	50 mm	5.7	13 h 30	28	Strong coverage
May	19.5°C	7.5°C	87 mm	9.3	14 h 59	59	Strong coverage
June	24.5°C	13.7°C	101 mm	9.8	15 h 48	81	Strong coverage
July	26.7°C	15.6°C	94 mm	9	15 h 29	76	Strong coverage
August	25.8°C	14.6°C	77 mm	7	14 h 11	84	Strong coverage
September	21.4°C	9.6°C	70 mm	6.9	12 h 29	73	Strong coverage
October	12.6°C	2.1°C	64 mm	6.7	10 h 48	32	Strong coverage
November	3.3°C	-5.8°C	22 mm	3.8	9 h 20	5	Strong coverage
December	-4.3°C	-13.5°C	33 mm	5.1	8 h 35	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Pelican Rapids runs -0.3°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

-1.2

Mar

+0.7

Apr

-2.7

May

-1.4

Jun

-0.4

Jul

-1.3

Aug

-1.8

Sep

+1.0

Oct

-1.6

Nov

+0.6

Dec

+2.4

August daytime highs, 2011–2024. Last recorded: 25.1°C.

Records at ROTHSAY, 1959–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	12.8°C24 Jan 1981	-39.4°C16 Jan 1977	51 mm19 Jan 1987	66 mm1975 · driest 0 mm in 1988	64
February	13.3°C27 Feb 2016	-38.3°C2 Feb 1996	51 mm11 Feb 2013	68 mm2013 · driest 0 mm in 1986	65
March	27.2°C31 Mar 1963	-32.2°C1 Mar 1962	43 mm24 Mar 1975	108 mm2009 · driest 0 mm in 1986	61
April	36.7°C21 Apr 1980	-20.6°C1 Apr 1975	57 mm24 Apr 1993	137 mm1986 · driest 0 mm in 1983	63
May	36.1°C27 May 1969	-7.8°C2 May 1967	83 mm23 May 2007	219 mm1962 · driest 8 mm in 1984	62
June	37.8°C19 Jun 2022	0.0°C20 Jun 1969	92 mm14 Jun 1967	201 mm2005 · driest 22 mm in 1988	62
July	38.9°C26 Jul 1976	4.4°C30 Jul 1971	132 mm18 Jul 1985	245 mm2002 · driest 13 mm in 1967	64
August	40.6°C19 Aug 1976	1.7°C27 Aug 1982	89 mm24 Aug 1981	248 mm2005 · driest 3 mm in 1976	64
September	37.2°C8 Sep 1959	-6.7°C26 Sep 1965	74 mm10 Sep 1961	183 mm2004 · driest 4 mm in 2024	61
October	35.0°C5 Oct 1963	-12.2°C30 Oct 1991	61 mm15 Oct 2013	174 mm1984 · driest 0 mm in 1964	62
November	25.0°C8 Nov 1978	-29.4°C29 Nov 1985	45 mm29 Nov 2005	87 mm2005 · driest 0 mm in 1967	64
December	14.4°C7 Dec 2023	-36.7°C30 Dec 1976	127 mm29 Dec 2000	152 mm2000 · driest 0 mm in 1986	63

Typical days per month at ROTHSAY, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	30	<1	6
February	0	0	27	<1	5
March	0	0	27	<1	4
April	<1	<1	15	2	1
May	6	1	2	3	0
June	15	3	0	3	0
July	22	6	0	3	0
August	19	4	0	3	0
September	8	2	<1	2	0
October	1	<1	11	2	<1
November	0	0	25	<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 81); on 2011–2025 it is August (87). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in ROTHSAY’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%	11%	1%	5%	-12.1–-3.3°C
February	0%	11%	<1%	5%	-9.1–0.2°C
March	1%	15%	3%	9%	-1.3–7.1°C
April	13%	19%	6%	16%	8.9–16.1°C
May	43%	27%	9%	30%	17.4–22.8°C
June	64%	30%	12%	34%	22.4–27.0°C
July	74%	25%	9%	23%	25.8–30.1°C
August	76%	22%	8%	20%	24.2–29.6°C
September	53%	21%	7%	18%	19.3–24.2°C
October	18%	19%	6%	19%	10.6–16.3°C
November	1%	11%	2%	7%	-1.3–7.1°C
December	0%	14%	2%	7%	-9.6–-0.5°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.

1960Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 50-year average. Warmest: 1998. Coolest: 1996.2021

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5041072
NOAA station: USC00217149 · ROTHSAY
Station distance: 18.5 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 24 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 46.57°, 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 ROTHSAY is what differs

Barnesville→Rothsay→Abercrombie→Erhard→Wolverton→Kent→

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