Burnsville, Minnesota climate: NOAA's gridded normals for the city, beside the nearest station records
NOAA's gridded 1991-2020 normals put Burnsville's center at January lows of 7°F and July highs of 82°F, a yearly mean of 45.5°F and 32.6 inches of precipitation. No NOAA station keeps a record under the city's name. The nearest station record, Farmington (8 miles SE, 980 ft), has January lows of 8°F and July highs of 82°F.
64,864 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 80° 61°
- 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 Burnsville's center.
What is each month like in Burnsville?
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. | Farmington high | Farmington low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 23°F | 7°F | 14.9°F | 0.79 | 23°F | 8°F |
| February | 28°F | 11°F | 19.4°F | 0.81 | 28°F | 12°F |
| March | 41°F | 23°F | 32.1°F | 1.65 | 41°F | 24°F |
| April | 56°F | 36°F | 45.9°F | 2.95 | 56°F | 36°F |
| May | 68°F | 48°F | 58.2°F | 4.18 | 69°F | 48°F |
| June | 78°F | 58°F | 68.3°F | 4.78 | 78°F | 59°F |
| July | 82°F | 63°F | 72.5°F | 4.23 | 82°F | 63°F |
| August | 80°F | 61°F | 70.1°F | 4.59 | 79°F | 60°F |
| September | 72°F | 52°F | 62.2°F | 3.28 | 72°F | 52°F |
| October | 58°F | 39°F | 48.5°F | 2.67 | 58°F | 39°F |
| November | 41°F | 26°F | 33.6°F | 1.59 | 42°F | 27°F |
| December | 28°F | 14°F | 20.7°F | 1.11 | 28°F | 14°F |
In metric: a yearly mean of 7.5°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 Burnsville 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farmington3 mi NW | 8 mi SE | 980 ft | 45.7°F | 8°F | 82°F | 32.3 | 41 | April 27 |
| MinneapolisMinneapolis/St Paul Airport | 9 mi N | 872 ft | 46.9°F | 9°F | 83°F | 31.6 | 51 | April 23 |
| RosemountRosemount Research & Outreach Center | 9 mi E | 945 ft | 44.1°F | 3°F | 81°F | 34.1 | – | May 2 |
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 Burnsville?
NOAA's grid gives no snow, frost dates or records, so these come from the nearest station record, Farmington (8 miles SE, 980 ft). It gets 41 inches of snow in a normal year. The last spring frost (32°F) comes after April 27 in half of years and the first autumn frost before October 10. Its record high is 110°F (1936) and its record low −40°F (1935) (kept since 1892).
The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Burnsville in zone 5a across its 2 ZIP code areas.
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%).
Farmington'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 Burnsville; the nearest record's month pages have them.
Source: NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 normals, station USC00212737; 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 Burnsville, ZIP code by ZIP code?
2 ZIP code areas lie wholly or partly in Burnsville. On NOAA's grid 55337 is the warmest (45.5°F a year) and 55306 the coolest (45.4°F), so the city is nearly uniform. Each row also names the nearest station record and its frost dates.
| ZIP code | Zone | Year | Jan low | Jul high | Precip. | Nearest record | Last frost | First frost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55306 | 5a | 45.4°F | 7°F | 82°F | 32.7 | Farmington (7 mi) | April 27 | October 10 |
| 55337 | 5a | 45.5°F | 7°F | 82°F | 32.6 | Minneapolis (8 mi) | April 23 | October 18 |
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.