United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Wadena.

August leads for comfortable weather in Wadena: typically 25.1°C by day, 12.8°C at night, with 78 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortAugust

Typical high25.1°C

Typical low12.8°C

Rain in August78 mm

Comfort

August

August · July · June

84climate match

Beach

August

August · July · June

54climate match

Outdoors

September

September · May · August

84climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against August’s 84 — days reach only -7.8°C, 32° 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

5-7.8° / -18.5°

Feb

5-4.5° / -16.1°

Mar

52° / -9.1°

Apr

2111.3° / -1.2°

May

5318.7° / 5.9°

Jun

7523.2° / 12°

Jul

7925.7° / 14.3°

Aug

8425.1° / 12.8°

Sep

6620.3° / 7.7°

Oct

2812.5° / 1.2°

Nov

53° / -6.3°

Dec

5-4.9° / -14°

Monthly climate evidence for Wadena — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-7.8°C	-18.5°C	22 mm	4.2	8 h 58	5	Good coverage
February	-4.5°C	-16.1°C	19 mm	3.6	10 h 14	5	Good coverage
March	2°C	-9.1°C	33 mm	5	11 h 45	5	Good coverage
April	11.3°C	-1.2°C	68 mm	6.7	13 h 29	21	Good coverage
May	18.7°C	5.9°C	92 mm	8.5	14 h 58	53	Good coverage
June	23.2°C	12°C	112 mm	10.1	15 h 47	75	Good coverage
July	25.7°C	14.3°C	106 mm	8.3	15 h 28	79	Good coverage
August	25.1°C	12.8°C	78 mm	6.1	14 h 11	84	Good coverage
September	20.3°C	7.7°C	72 mm	6.8	12 h 29	66	Good coverage
October	12.5°C	1.2°C	75 mm	7.1	10 h 49	28	Good coverage
November	3°C	-6.3°C	33 mm	4.5	9 h 20	5	Good coverage
December	-4.9°C	-14°C	20 mm	4.6	8 h 36	5	Good coverage

Records at WADENA 3 S, 1893–2014
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	14.4°C23 Jan 1942	-41.1°C23 Jan 1935	47 mm5 Jan 1997	86 mm1997 · driest 1 mm in 2008	97
February	15.6°C22 Feb 1961	-41.7°C2 Feb 1996	36 mm11 Feb 2013	86 mm1922 · driest 1 mm in 1958	95
March	26.1°C28 Mar 1946	-36.1°C10 Mar 1948	50 mm15 Mar 1957	98 mm1966 · driest 3 mm in 1959	94
April	35.6°C22 Apr 1980	-21.7°C3 Apr 1975	59 mm16 Apr 2012	141 mm1937 · driest 1 mm in 1980	94
May	40.0°C31 May 1934	-8.3°C3 May 1907	86 mm27 May 2012	226 mm1965 · driest 2 mm in 1928	96
June	37.8°C28 Jun 1931	-2.2°C2 Jun 1928	77 mm10 Jun 1968	266 mm1968 · driest 24 mm in 1987	96
July	44.4°C10 Jul 1936	2.8°C27 Jul 1904	123 mm11 Jul 2014	235 mm1944 · driest 14 mm in 1947	91
August	39.4°C2 Aug 1938	0.0°C28 Aug 1934	152 mm7 Aug 1995	249 mm1995 · driest 0 mm in 2013	93
September	40.0°C7 Sep 1931	-8.3°C30 Sep 1974	82 mm12 Sep 1980	194 mm1965 · driest 1 mm in 1922	95
October	34.4°C5 Oct 1963	-20.0°C26 Oct 1919	99 mm15 Oct 1984	217 mm1998 · driest 3 mm in 1944	96
November	23.3°C9 Nov 1999	-37.2°C30 Nov 1905	47 mm13 Nov 2005	121 mm1922 · driest 0 mm in 2013	93
December	18.3°C6 Dec 1939	-41.1°C20 Dec 1983	32 mm3 Dec 1951	69 mm1951 · driest 1 mm in 1930	94

Typical days per month at WADENA 3 S, 1991–2020
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	28	1	4
April	<1	<1	19	3	2
May	5	<1	4	3	0
June	12	2	0	4	0
July	19	4	0	3	0
August	17	3	0	3	0
September	7	1	2	3	0
October	2	0	15	2	<1
November	0	0	27	<1	3
December	0	0	31	<1	6

How often, not how much — every day in WADENA 3 S’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%	14%	1%	10%	-12.6–-3.1°C
February	0%	13%	1%	7%	-8.3–-0.8°C
March	<1%	16%	3%	13%	-1.6–6.4°C
April	11%	22%	7%	25%	8.2–15.4°C
May	38%	27%	9%	31%	16.4–22.7°C
June	56%	33%	12%	41%	21.7–26.1°C
July	72%	26%	9%	24%	24.7–29.6°C
August	72%	23%	9%	22%	23.8–28.6°C
September	45%	23%	8%	22%	17.8–22.8°C
October	17%	19%	5%	17%	10.5–16.4°C
November	<1%	16%	3%	12%	-0.9–6.7°C
December	0%	13%	1%	8%	-9.2–-1.0°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.

1905Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 82-year average. Warmest: 2012. Coolest: 1996.2013

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5051659
NOAA station: USC00218579 · WADENA 3 S
Station distance: 5.5 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 22 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 46.44°, 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 WADENA 3 S is what differs

Staples→Parkers Prairie→Verndale→Bertha→Deer Creek→Hewitt→

Or put two places side by side: Wadena vs Staples

Best time to visitWadena.

August

August

September

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Wadena.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.