NOAA NCEI Climate Normals 1991–2020
Minnesota Weather by Month
Temperature, rain and the hurricane season at 118 Minnesota stations, month by month.
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
The median station records 30.8 inches of precipitation a year; Caledonia, MN records the most, 38.4 inches, and Crookston NW Exp Stn, MN the least, 22.5 (1.7 times as much). July is the hottest month at the median station (average high 81°F); the hottest July is at Stillwater 1 SE, MN, 85°F. January is the coldest (average low 3°F); the coldest January nights are at Warroad, MN, -8°F. Highs reach 90°F on 8 days a year at the median station and on 20 at Granite Falls, MN, the most. Snowfall is heaviest at Wolf Ridge Elc, MN, 94.2 inches a year.
This page compares the 1991–2020 NOAA climate normals of 118 Minnesota weather stations, each the nearest station with full normals to at least one of the 339 Minnesota cities on this site that have one within 25 miles.
At the median station, June is the wettest month (4.6 inches) and January the driest (0.8). Station by station, the wettest month is June at 94, July at 17 and August at 5 of the 118, and the driest January at 82, February at 34 and December at 2. The gap between the wettest and driest station is widest in August: 2.9 inches.
Month by month across Minnesota
High, low and precipitation are the median of the 118 stations; the station columns name the station with the highest average high, the lowest average low, and the most and least precipitation that month, each linked to the city page it serves. Source: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020.
Minnesota cities and their stations
How stations are matched to cities and what normals are: methodology · other states by month