Climate averages 1991–2020
Minneapolis weather
in April.
A cool, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a cool month in Minneapolis: daytime highs average 12.5°C and nights cool to about 2.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 81 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 28 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Saint Paul (14 km away). In April its highs average 12.6°C, about as warm as Minneapolis, with 81 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Minneapolis ranks joint 471st of 498 for the warmest April highs and joint 225th of 498 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 498 cities is 19.4°C; Minneapolis is 6.8°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 7.0°C to 19.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 81 mm to 110 mm.
The annual picture
April in context
Monthly precipitation
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Minneapolis climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -5.3°C-13.7°C | -13.7°C | 24 | 5.8 | 9.29 h |
| February | -2.3°C-11.4°C | -11.4°C | 26 | 4.9 | 10.410 h |
| March | 4.9°C-4.8°C | -4.8°C | 51 | 7.6 | 11.912 h |
| April, selected | 12.5°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 81 | 10.6 | 13.513 h |
| May | 19.5°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 110 | 11.9 | 14.815 h |
| June | 24.9°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 110 | 12.1 | 15.516 h |
| July | 27.4°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 90 | 10.6 | 15.215 h |
| August | 26.2°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 98 | 10.0 | 14.114 h |
| September | 21.8°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 84 | 9.4 | 12.613 h |
| October | 13.6°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 67 | 8.8 | 11.011 h |
| November | 4.7°C-2.1°C | -2.1°C | 49 | 6.9 | 9.610 h |
| December | -2.5°C-9.7°C | -9.7°C | 35 | 6.1 | 8.89 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
April in nearby cities
- Saint Paul in AprilUnited States · 14 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 2.6°C · 81 mm rain
- Brooklyn Park in AprilUnited States · 15 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 2.2°C · 81 mm rain
- Plymouth, United States in AprilUnited States · 15 kmHigh 12.3°C · Low 2.3°C · 81 mm rain
- Bloomington (Minnesota), United States in AprilUnited States · 16 kmHigh 12.7°C · Low 2.9°C · 81 mm rain
- Rochester (Minnesota), United States in AprilUnited States · 124 kmHigh 12.6°C · Low 2.7°C · 92 mm rain
- Duluth in AprilUnited States · 220 kmHigh 6.5°C · Low -0.2°C · 84 mm rain
- Sioux Falls in AprilUnited States · 319 kmHigh 13.6°C · Low 2.6°C · 91 mm rain
- Fargo in AprilUnited States · 345 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 0.4°C · 52 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Minneapolis) is explained once on the Minneapolis year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Brooklyn Park lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.