New Hope, MN Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, plus PlainClimate's derived comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from New Hope's primary NOAA station, NEW HOPE.
The climate verdict for New Hope
Winter sets the terms in New Hope, Minnesota. A pronounced 57.4°F seasonal swing and heating demand above twice the cooling total frame an annual average of 46°F. At 54/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 31% of scores.
- 46°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 54/100
- comfort score, above 31% of station-mapped location scores
- 34.7"
- annual precipitation · 54" snow
- 166 days
- frost-free growing season
New Hope: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00215838 · New Hope, MN 46°F mean · 34.7" precip
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-MID · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COOL 46°F
- RANK-COOL #1,509
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Canton
- PRCP-MID 34.7"
- SWING-WIDE 57°F
- COMF-LOW 54/100
- LOAD-HEAT 7,683 HDD
- STN-1 USC00215838
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Canton, SD (+ 0 °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.
- New Hope (this station) 46°F
- Cold St Paul, MN 46°F
- Hot Spirit Lake, IA 46°F
- Near Canton, SD 46°F
- Near Shoshoni, WY 46°F
New Hope 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 · New Hope
New Hope: 42/100 · grade D
New Hope publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for New Hope, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 54/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 34.7 in · 0.3 from 35 in | 95/100 · A |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 159 calendar days | 40/100 · D |
| Frost-free season | 166 days/year | 38/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 45.7°F · 21.8° from 67.5°F | 22/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 54.3 inches/year | 19/100 · F |
New Hope · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
New Hope is a continental Köppen climate: Dfa
Coldest-month mean 15.3°F and warmest-month mean 72.7°F place this station in continental, no dry season, hot summer climates (Dfa). Class Dfa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, no dry season, hot summer.
- Köppen code
- Dfa
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 72.7°F
- Coldest month
- 15.3°F
Source: official public datasets monthly normals (1991–2020) at the city’s primary station. This is a station classification, not a mapped regional consensus.
National standing · heating-led station
Where New Hope sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for New Hope's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 78%
- Among 6,861 stations, New Hope sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- 47th percentile wetness
- Neither arid nor torrential versus 6,352 station totals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 95%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for New Hope is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How New Hope compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
New Hope's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
54 31st percentile score exceeds 31% of 6,189 station-mapped location scores
- 0–10: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
- 10–20: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
- 20–30: 96 station-mapped locations (2%). Below this entry.
- 30–40: 280 station-mapped locations (5%). Below this entry.
- 40–50: 1,113 station-mapped locations (18%). Below this entry.
- 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). This entry sits in this band.
- 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). Above this entry.
- 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). Above this entry.
- 80–90: 921 station-mapped locations (15%). Above this entry.
- 90–100: 564 station-mapped locations (9%). Above this entry.
Source NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, PlainClimate comfort index · 1991–2020
New Hope's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 48 complete annual observations from 1970 to 2025, NEW HOPE warmed at a fitted rate of 0.35°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- New Hope primary station fitted change +0.35 °C/decade
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 24°F (-5°C) | 7°F (-14°C) | 15°F (-9°C) | 0.9" | 10.1" | 30.7 | 0.0 |
| February | 29°F (-2°C) | 11°F (-12°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 1.0" | 10.1" | 27.0 | 0.0 |
| March | 42°F (5°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 1.9" | 9.0" | 25.0 | 0.0 |
| April | 57°F (14°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 3.3" | 5.1" | 11.9 | 0.1 |
| May | 69°F (21°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 4.5" | 0.0" | 1.1 | 0.7 |
| June | 78°F (26°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 4.6" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.7 |
| July | 82°F (28°C) | 63°F (17°C) | 73°F (23°C) | 4.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 3.9 |
| August | 80°F (27°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 4.2" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 1.7 |
| September | 72°F (22°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 62°F (17°C) | 3.5" | 0.0" | 0.2 | 0.5 |
| October | 57°F (14°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 3.0" | 0.8" | 7.6 | 0.0 |
| November | 41°F (5°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 1.9" | 6.9" | 22.5 | 0.0 |
| December | 29°F (-2°C) | 14°F (-10°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 1.4" | 12.3" | 30.1 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 83°F around July 10, short of 90°F on every date, while 159 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 6°F near January 20.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 8, then returns to freezing around November 2, covering 159 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.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is May 28, when 42% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is February 19 at 27%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 121 wet dates a year.
The widest day
April 24 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 22°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for New Hope.
Where New Hope Stands Nationally
Days and nights track unusually close together; the widest normal swing, about 22°F, is narrower than most stations record.
New Hope earns one nationally notable standing (outer quintile) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations, middle-of-the-pack metrics stay silent here.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 10.1"
9.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 10.1"
7.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 9.0"
9.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 5.1"
11.4 days with precipitation
12.9 days with precipitation
12.1 days with precipitation
10.6 days with precipitation
9.2 days with precipitation
9.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.8"
10.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.9"
8.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 12.3"
10.4 days with precipitation
New Hope runs a summer-peaked wet season
38% of New Hope's yearly precipitation falls in June, July and August alone, against the 25% an evenly spread year would give those three months. The wettest month is June at 4.6", on a wide 57.4°F gap between its warmest and coldest month. Warm-season convection and, across the Southwest, the North American monsoon produce this shape: rain arrives in short heavy bursts during the hottest part of the year rather than as long cool-season soaking.
- Wettest three months: June, July, May, taking 39% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: January at 0.9".
- Winter share: 10% falls in December, January and February.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. A summer-peaked label means the June-August share reaches 35%; it describes timing across an average year, not any single season, and says nothing about how heavy an individual storm can be.
How New Hope's precipitation splits across the calendar
About 121 days a year record measurable precipitation here, carrying 34.7" between them, or roughly 0.29 inches on a typical wet day. That sits in the middle band: neither the many-light-days pattern of the Pacific Northwest and the Great Lakes, nor the few-heavy-events pattern of the Gulf and the desert Southwest.
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year and say nothing about the heaviest single storm on record.
Winter brings real snow to New Hope
New Hope averages 54.3 inches of snowfall a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 41 days that record measurable snow. That is depth accumulating on the ground, which is why it can exceed the annual precipitation figure: precipitation counts the liquid the snow melts down to, and fresh snow is mostly air.
- Annual snowfall: 54.3 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 41 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 16% of the year's precipitation.
NOAA 1991-2020 normals. The ten-to-one ratio is a convention, not a measurement: real ratios vary with temperature, so treat the share as an order of magnitude rather than an exact split.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 12
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
April 29
50% probability date
Growing Season
166 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
7,683
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
671
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside MN closest to New Hope 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 (46°F here).
- Alpine, AZ 46°F · 0.0°F off
- Bison, SD 46°F · 0.0°F off
- Brunswick, ME 46°F · 0.0°F off
- Canton, SD 46°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (34.7" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Sheboygan, WI 34.7" · 0.0" off
- Chelsea, MI 34.7" · 0.0" off
- Bellingham, WA 34.7" · 0.0" off
- Hiawatha, KS 34.7" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define New Hope
heating led · moderate · high swing
Winter and seasonal range jointly define this record. New Hope logs 7,683 heating degree days, more than twice its 671 cooling total, while the typical coldest-to-warmest-month gap reaches 57.4°F. The annual mean therefore compresses two materially different seasons.
New Hope's frost-free season lasts about 166 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
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1. New Hope coldest normal
January
Averaging 15°F (-9°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. New Hope typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. New Hope snow peak
December
New Hope averages 54.3 inches of snow a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals.
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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 New Hope's primary station: NEW HOPE (USC00215838). 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 an incorporated place (GEOID 2745628). Match rule for New Hope: 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 New Hope 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.