Apple Valley, Minnesota climate: NOAA's gridded normals for the city, beside the nearest station records
NOAA's gridded 1991-2020 normals put Apple Valley's center at January lows of 7°F and July highs of 82°F, a yearly mean of 45.4°F and 32.6 inches of precipitation. No NOAA station keeps a record under the city's name. The nearest station record, Rosemount (5 miles E, 945 ft), has January lows of 3°F and July highs of 81°F.
55,272 people (Census Bureau 2024). Distances and directions are from the city's center.
- Jan 23° 7°
- Feb 28° 11°
- Mar 41° 23°
- Apr 56° 36°
- May 68° 48°
- Jun 78° 58°
- Jul 82° 63°
- Aug 79° 60°
- Sep 72° 52°
- Oct 58° 39°
- Nov 41° 26°
- Dec 28° 14°
Each month: normal high (large) and low, °F. Fill: the month's normal mean, colder blue to hotter red.
The months above are NOAA's gridded normals at Apple Valley's center.
What is each month like in Apple Valley?
NOAA's grid estimates the normals every 5 km or so from the stations around each point, terrain included. It smooths between stations, so night lows at the heart of a large city can run warmer than the grid shows: at five big-city airports we compared, the grid's highs were within about 1°F of the station and its lows 1-6°F cooler. The nearest record's high and low are beside each month.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Precip. | Rosemount high | Rosemount low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 23°F | 7°F | 14.9°F | 0.81 | 22°F | 3°F |
| February | 28°F | 11°F | 19.2°F | 0.81 | 27°F | 7°F |
| March | 41°F | 23°F | 31.9°F | 1.63 | 40°F | 20°F |
| April | 56°F | 36°F | 45.7°F | 2.92 | 56°F | 34°F |
| May | 68°F | 48°F | 57.9°F | 4.13 | 68°F | 47°F |
| June | 78°F | 58°F | 68.2°F | 4.83 | 77°F | 57°F |
| July | 82°F | 63°F | 72.3°F | 4.21 | 81°F | 61°F |
| August | 79°F | 60°F | 69.9°F | 4.59 | 79°F | 58°F |
| September | 72°F | 52°F | 62.0°F | 3.33 | 72°F | 50°F |
| October | 58°F | 39°F | 48.4°F | 2.66 | 59°F | 37°F |
| November | 41°F | 26°F | 33.6°F | 1.57 | 42°F | 23°F |
| December | 28°F | 14°F | 20.8°F | 1.15 | 28°F | 11°F |
In metric: a yearly mean of 7.4°C, January lows of −14°C, July highs of 28°C and 829 mm of precipitation a year.
Source: NOAA NCEI U.S. Monthly Gridded Climate Normals 1991-2020 (nClimGrid, accession 0245564); NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 station normals. The grid cell holding the city's Census center point.
What do the station records around Apple Valley say?
Each row is a NOAA station's own 1991-2020 normals, with the snow and frost dates the grid does not give. A record downhill or nearer the coast than the city can run warmer, one uphill cooler: compare the elevations.
| Record | Where | Elevation | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Snow | Last frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RosemountRosemount Research & Outreach Center | 5 mi E | 945 ft | 44.1°F | 3°F | 81°F | 34.1 | – | May 2 |
| Farmington3 mi NW | 5 mi S | 980 ft | 45.7°F | 8°F | 82°F | 32.3 | 41 | April 27 |
| MinneapolisMinneapolis/St Paul Airport | 10 mi N | 872 ft | 46.9°F | 9°F | 83°F | 31.6 | 51 | April 23 |
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals; place center and population: Census Bureau 2024. Last frost: the median last spring date of 32°F.
How much snow, how late a frost, what zone and how much sun in Apple Valley?
NOAA's grid gives no snow, frost dates or records, so these come from the nearest station record, Rosemount (5 miles E, 945 ft). NOAA publishes no snowfall normal for it; the nearest record that has one, Farmington (5 miles S), gets 41 inches a year. The last spring frost (32°F) comes after May 2 in half of years and the first autumn frost before October 5. Its record high is 105°F (1988) and its record low −38°F (1977) (kept since 1943).
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Apple Valley in zone 5a (ZIP code 55124).
Over a year 73% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area (3.9 kWh per square metre a day, NASA POWER 2001-2020); July is the sunniest month (82%) and December the cloudiest (62%).
Rosemount's page has its months, frost probabilities, records by month and recent years. NOAA's grid has monthly figures only, so there are no day-by-day month pages for Apple Valley; the nearest record's month pages have them.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals, station USC00217107; records: ACIS; USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, ZIP listings: PRISM Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, accessed October 8, 2026; sunshine: NASA POWER.
How does the climate vary across Apple Valley, ZIP code by ZIP code?
One ZIP code area lies wholly or partly in Apple Valley. Each row also names the nearest station record and its frost dates.
Source: Census Bureau 2020 ZCTA-to-place relationship file and ZCTA centers; NOAA NCEI gridded and station normals, 1991-2020. A ZIP area counts when at least a tenth of its land (and 0.5 km²) is in the city; its figures are the grid cell at its center; frost dates are the nearest record's medians of 32°F.