Climate averages 1991–2020
Minneapolis weather
in July.
A warm, wet month: the warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
July is a warm month in Minneapolis: daytime highs average 27.4°C and nights cool to about 18.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 90 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes July a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 14 min on an average July day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Saint Paul (14 km away). In July its highs average 27.3°C, about as warm as Minneapolis, with 89 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Minneapolis ranks joint 399th of 498 for the warmest July highs and joint 309th of 498 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 498 cities is 30.3°C; Minneapolis is 2.9°C cooler than that mean.
From July to August, average highs fall by 1.2°C to 26.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 90 mm to 98 mm.
The annual picture
July 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 | 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, selected | 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
July in nearby cities
- Saint Paul in JulyUnited States · 14 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 18.6°C · 89 mm rain
- Brooklyn Park in JulyUnited States · 15 kmHigh 27.2°C · Low 18.5°C · 90 mm rain
- Plymouth, United States in JulyUnited States · 15 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 18.5°C · 90 mm rain
- Bloomington (Minnesota), United States in JulyUnited States · 16 kmHigh 27.4°C · Low 19.0°C · 91 mm rain
- Rochester (Minnesota), United States in JulyUnited States · 124 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 18.0°C · 97 mm rain
- Duluth in JulyUnited States · 220 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 17.8°C · 98 mm rain
- Sioux Falls in JulyUnited States · 319 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 18.2°C · 84 mm rain
- Fargo in JulyUnited States · 345 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 16.9°C · 95 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.