Minneapolis, Minnesota climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records

What is the weather like in Minneapolis each month?

July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 83°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 9°F. The most precipitation falls in June (4.58 in), the least in February (0.87 in).

Each month has its own page with the day-by-day normals, the month's records and its recent years:

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

When is the best weather to visit Minneapolis?

Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in May, June, July, August and September. Of those, September has the fewest days with rain (9).

That is a measurement, not a recommendation: it counts the months whose normal afternoon high sits between 65°F and 85°F, where a light layer is enough by day.

When is the last frost in Minneapolis?

In Minneapolis, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after April 23 in half of years and after May 7 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before October 18 in half of years and before October 1 in one year in ten.

Last spring frost, half of years after

April 231 year in 10 after May 7; 9 in 10 after April 8

First autumn frost, half of years before

October 181 year in 10 before October 1; 9 in 10 before October 31

NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 176 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 197 days.

A hard freeze (28°F) comes after April 13 in half of springs and before October 29 in half of autumns.

The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Minneapolis in zone 5a across its 21 ZIP code areas (5a in 55418, the largest). By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, Minneapolis's NOAA station is in zone 5a: the coldest night of a typical year reaches −17°F (30 complete years).

Frost dates for every NOAA station in Minnesota · Frost dates by ZIP code

What hardiness zone is each Minneapolis ZIP code in?

The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. Minneapolis's 21 ZIP code areas are all in zone 5a. Each ZIP's frost dates are in the frost tool.

How hot and how cold does it get in Minneapolis?

In a normal year in Minneapolis, 13 days a year reach 90°F, 147 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 119 days bring measurable precipitation.

Days at 90°F or more

13a normal year

Days at 100°F or more

fewer than 1a normal year

Nights at 32°F or colder

147a normal year

Days that stay below freezing

72high of 32°F or less

Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation

119a normal year

Days with 1 inch of snow or more

15a normal year

The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1938) is 105°F, on July 31, 1988; the lowest is −34°F, on January 19, 1970.

The wettest calendar year on that record is 2019, with 43.17 in; the snowiest season is 1983–84, with 98.6 inches.

How humid and windy is Minneapolis, and how clear are its skies?

The summer (June-August) dew point averages 59°F. The muggiest month is July, with an average dew point of 61°F; the driest air comes in January (11°F). March is the windiest month (10.5 mph on average), and August has the most clear or nearly clear hours (47%).

How sunny is Minneapolis?

Over a year 73% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around Minneapolis, 3.9 kWh per square metre a day. July is the sunniest month (82%) and December the cloudiest (62%). Among the 459 U.S. places of 50,000 or more, that ranks tied 352nd (with 32 others) in sunshine.

How much heating and cooling does Minneapolis need?

A normal year in Minneapolis brings 7,399 heating degree days, 38% more than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 830 cooling degree days, 9% fewer than the median (908). Seven months need 300 or more heating degree days, a monthly mean of about 55°F or colder. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 2,966 growing degree days a year above 50°F.

Has Minneapolis been warmer than normal lately?

2025 averaged 48.3°F, 1.4°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 46.9°F. 4 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.

Over 156 complete years from 1866 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 2.3°F per century (+0.13°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.

Which places near Minneapolis share this climate record?

6 places have no NOAA station with 1991-2020 normals of their own, and this station is the nearest full record. A place's own climate can differ from these figures, by several degrees where it sits much higher or lower than the station, nearer the coast, or inside a large city's heat; for the larger places the next nearest records are named with their yearly mean, so the spread around them is visible, and places of 50,000 or more have their own page with NOAA's gridded normals.

• Bloomington, MNalso near: Eden Prairie (8 mi, 46.7°F a year); Lower St Anthony Falls (11 mi, 45.8°F a year)88,344 people · 6 mi SW
• Eagan, MNalso near: Rosemount (8 mi, 44.1°F a year); St. Paul (10 mi, 46.5°F a year)67,240 people · 6 mi SE
• Edina, MNalso near: Eden Prairie (7 mi, 46.7°F a year); Lower St Anthony Falls (8 mi, 45.8°F a year)53,564 people · 6 mi W
• Richfield, MN36,491 people · 3 mi W
• Mendota Heights, MN11,542 people · 5 mi E
• Mendota, MN185 people · 3 mi E

Nearby and next

• Minneapolis in OctoberThis month day by day, its records and recent years
• Minnesota climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
• Lower St Anthony Falls, MN7 miles from this station, 45.8°F a year
• University of Minnesota St Paul, MN8 miles from this station, 44.7°F a year
• St. Paul, MN9 miles from this station, 46.5°F a year
• New Hope, MN11 miles from this station, 45.7°F a year
• Compare two placesMonth by month, side by side

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