Lutsen, MN Climate: Temperature by Month
Average temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, with a derived climate comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Lutsen's primary NOAA station, LUTSEN 3NNE.
The climate verdict for Lutsen
Winter sets the terms in Lutsen, Minnesota. A pronounced 56.6°F seasonal swing and heating demand above twice the cooling total frame an annual average of 37°F. July is the warmest month at 64°F and January the coldest at 7°F.
- 37°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 124 days
- frost-free growing season
Lutsen: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00214918 · Lutsen, MN 37°F mean
TEMP-COLD · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-WIDE · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-COLD 37°F
- RANK-COOL #137
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Hibbing Chishol…
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-WIDE 57°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 10,382 HDD
- STN-1 USC00214918
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Hibbing Chisholm Hibbing, MN (+ 0.2 °F mean)
Instrument codes from this station's NOAA 1991–2020 normals, mean temperature, corpus warmth rank, photo-finish peer station, precipitation band, seasonal swing, comfort composite, degree-day load, and field book, not a livability rating.
Mean-temperature neighbourhood
Nationwide NOAA normal poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every MN station list.
- Lutsen (this station) 37°F
- Cold Big Piney Marbl…, WY 37°F
- Hot Brimson, MN 37°F
- Near Hibbing Chishol…, MN 37°F
- Near Atlantic City, WY 37°F
Lutsen sits in Minnesota, the #3 coldest U.S. state at 42.2°F statewide annual average - see all 50 coldest states ranked by NOAA normals
Climate Living Index · Lutsen
Lutsen: 8/100 · grade F
Lutsen publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Lutsen, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 197 calendar days | 16/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 124 days/year | 9/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 36.7°F · 30.8° from 67.5°F | 0/100 · F |
Lutsen · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · heating-led station
Where Lutsen sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Lutsen are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 98%
- Among 6,861 stations, Lutsen sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 94%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Lutsen is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 17°F (-8°C) | -3°F (-20°C) | 7°F (-14°C) | N/A | 30.9 | 0.0 |
| February | 21°F (-6°C) | -1°F (-18°C) | 10°F (-12°C) | N/A | 27.7 | 0.0 |
| March | 33°F (0°C) | 11°F (-12°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | N/A | 30.0 | 0.0 |
| April | 44°F (7°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 34°F (1°C) | N/A | 25.7 | 0.0 |
| May | 58°F (15°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 48°F (9°C) | N/A | 9.2 | 0.0 |
| June | 66°F (19°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 57°F (14°C) | N/A | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| July | 73°F (23°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 64°F (18°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| August | 71°F (22°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 62°F (16°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| September | 62°F (17°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 53°F (12°C) | N/A | 1.7 | 0.0 |
| October | 49°F (9°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 41°F (5°C) | N/A | 17.8 | 0.0 |
| November | 34°F (1°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | N/A | 27.7 | 0.0 |
| December | 22°F (-5°C) | 7°F (-14°C) | 15°F (-10°C) | N/A | 30.9 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 74°F around July 23, short of 90°F on every date, while 197 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest -5°F near January 23.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 1, then returns to freezing around October 18, covering 197 dates in all.
Derived from the normal daily minimum. This is a different measure from the 50%-probability frost dates shown elsewhere on this page, which come from NOAA’s frost product.
The widest day
March 2 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 22°F between the normal high and the normal low.
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Where Lutsen Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 197 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
Days and nights track unusually close together; the widest normal swing, about 22°F, is narrower than most stations record.
Lutsen earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
September 27
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 26
50% probability date
Growing Season
124 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
10,382
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
100
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside MN closest to Lutsen on two NOAA annual-normal axes (mean temperature and annual precipitation). Chip rows use distinct link sets.
Closest by average temperature
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual mean temperature (37°F here).
- Cooper Landing, AK 37°F · 0.0°F off
- Island Park, ID 37°F · 0.1°F off
- Jackson, MT 37°F · 0.1°F off
- Valdez, AK 37°F · 0.1°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Lutsen's climate pattern fits together
heating led · high swing
Winter and seasonal range jointly define this record. Lutsen logs 10,382 heating degree days, more than twice its 100 cooling total, while the typical coldest-to-warmest-month gap reaches 56.6°F. The annual mean therefore compresses two materially different seasons.
Only about 124 days are frost-free in a normal year. That short interval is consistent with the cold-season signal, but the measure does not predict the exact first or last freeze in any one year.
Lutsen's calendar has a pronounced split: July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar, with 56.6°F between them. The annual average is 37°F. That average is context, while the monthly highs, lows, and precipitation totals describe the lived parts of the year.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Lutsen's annual precipitation total is unavailable. Monthly source values remain visible where NOAA provides them, and no annual amount is reconstructed from incomplete data.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Lutsen's primary station, so the winter figures are a thirty-year average and not a floor: a single hard season can run well below them. Treat each band as a descriptive range for Lutsen, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
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Data Sources
Data source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals v1.0.1 (1991-2020). All figures on this page are from Lutsen's primary station: LUTSEN 3NNE (USC00214918). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The 2024 Census Gazetteer identifies the exact name-and-state match as a census-designated place (GEOID 2738546), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Lutsen: exact normalized name + state only, no fuzzy expansion, so nearby differently spelled facilities stay unmatched.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Lutsen comes from its primary NOAA station record. No figure on this page is typed in by an editor - each value is rendered from NOAA 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 1991–2020 normals.