United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Fargo.

August leads for comfortable weather in Fargo: typically 27.2°C by day, 14.7°C at night, with 62 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortAugust

Typical high27.2°C

Typical low14.7°C

Rain in August62 mm

Comfort

August

August · June · July

82climate match

Beach

August

August · July · June

69climate match

Outdoors

September

September · May · August

82climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against August’s 82 — days reach only -8.7°C, 33° 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

5-8.7° / -18.1°

Feb

5-5.1° / -14.9°

Mar

53° / -7.2°

Apr

3212.6° / 0.4°

May

6220.5° / 7.4°

Jun

7625.2° / 13.3°

Jul

7627.3° / 15.6°

Aug

8227.2° / 14.7°

Sep

7522° / 9.3°

Oct

3413.1° / 2.4°

Nov

52.4° / -6.2°

Dec

5-5.2° / -13.6°

Monthly climate evidence for Fargo — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-8.7°C	-18.1°C	23 mm	5	8 h 55	5	Good coverage
February	-5.1°C	-14.9°C	18 mm	4.4	10 h 13	5	Good coverage
March	3°C	-7.2°C	37 mm	5.2	11 h 45	5	Good coverage
April	12.6°C	0.4°C	44 mm	5.8	13 h 31	32	Good coverage
May	20.5°C	7.4°C	89 mm	8.8	15 h 01	62	Good coverage
June	25.2°C	13.3°C	117 mm	9.3	15 h 51	76	Good coverage
July	27.3°C	15.6°C	87 mm	7.7	15 h 31	76	Good coverage
August	27.2°C	14.7°C	62 mm	6.1	14 h 13	82	Good coverage
September	22°C	9.3°C	73 mm	6.3	12 h 30	75	Good coverage
October	13.1°C	2.4°C	64 mm	6.6	10 h 48	34	Good coverage
November	2.4°C	-6.2°C	29 mm	4.6	9 h 18	5	Good coverage
December	-5.2°C	-13.6°C	21 mm	5.2	8 h 33	5	Good coverage

Records at MOORHEAD, 1991–2016
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	12.8°C5 Jan 2012	-36.1°C18 Jan 1994	31 mm18 Jan 1996	50 mm1996 · driest 3 mm in 2008	19
February	13.3°C29 Feb 1992	-38.3°C1 Feb 1996	23 mm10 Feb 2013	43 mm1998 · driest 3 mm in 2014	22
March	24.4°C18 Mar 2012	-28.3°C12 Mar 2009	28 mm8 Mar 2000	117 mm2009 · driest 7 mm in 2001	20
April	34.4°C30 Apr 1992	-15.6°C4 Apr 1995	35 mm5 Apr 1997	96 mm2014 · driest 5 mm in 2004	24
May	35.6°C28 May 2006	-5.6°C3 May 2013	60 mm17 May 2015	200 mm2015 · driest 36 mm in 1994	22
June	37.8°C17 Jun 1995	1.1°C6 Jun 2009	130 mm19 Jun 2000	319 mm2000 · driest 27 mm in 2004	23
July	37.2°C22 Jul 2012	5.6°C1 Jul 2001	162 mm16 Jul 1993	256 mm1993 · driest 20 mm in 2009	20
August	36.7°C26 Aug 1991	4.4°C30 Aug 2009	65 mm24 Aug 1995	122 mm1999 · driest 11 mm in 2013	21
September	36.1°C5 Sep 1995	-2.8°C22 Sep 1995	62 mm3 Sep 1999	170 mm2010 · driest 5 mm in 2012	19
October	35.0°C11 Oct 2015	-12.2°C31 Oct 1991	50 mm1 Oct 2009	144 mm2009 · driest 4 mm in 1993	21
November	22.2°C8 Nov 1999	-26.7°C26 Nov 1996	32 mm1 Nov 2000	113 mm2000 · driest 0 mm in 1999	18
December	11.7°C18 Dec 2011	-32.8°C31 Dec 2008	19 mm25 Dec 2009	52 mm2010 · driest 6 mm in 2001	20

Typical days per month at MOORHEAD, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	31	<1	10
February	0	0	28	<1	7
March	0	0	26	1	5
April	1	<1	15	1	2
May	8	2	2	3	0
June	17	5	0	4	0
July	24	9	0	3	0
August	23	8	0	2	0
September	10	2	<1	2	0
October	1	<1	11	2	<1
November	0	0	26	1	5
December	0	0	31	<1	9

How often, not how much — every day in MOORHEAD’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%	16%	1%	11%	-12.3–-4.5°C
February	0%	16%	<1%	13%	-9.2–-0.4°C
March	2%	17%	4%	12%	-1.3–7.6°C
April	16%	19%	5%	20%	9.0–16.4°C
May	44%	28%	9%	35%	18.4–22.8°C
June	63%	31%	12%	41%	23.3–27.2°C
July	75%	25%	10%	24%	25.0–29.5°C
August	79%	20%	6%	18%	25.5–28.8°C
September	56%	21%	7%	16%	19.2–24.4°C
October	16%	21%	8%	26%	11.0–15.7°C
November	<1%	15%	3%	9%	-1.6–7.0°C
December	0%	17%	1%	13%	-11.1–0.4°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.

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5059163
NOAA station: USC00215586 · MOORHEAD
Station distance: 3.4 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 18 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 46.88°, 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 MOORHEAD is what differs

Moorhead→Dilworth→Horace→Hawley→Glyndon→Sabin→

Or put two places side by side: Fargo vs Moorhead

Best time to visitFargo.

August

August

September

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Fargo.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.