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Minnesota · 410,939 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 15:17

Air: Fair

11°

Clear sky

Feels like 11°C

Wind

13 km/h

Gusts

26 km/h

Humidity

56 %

Pressure

1024 hPa

Clouds

0 %

Storm

Rise 07:47 Set 18:05 Day 10 h 17 min UV 5 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Afternoon

Clear sky

13°11°

Feels like 13°

Wind ↑ WNW 15 km/h

Gusts 26 km/h

Humidity 39 %

Evening

Partly cloudy

10°9°

Feels like 9°

Wind ↑ NW 7 km/h

Gusts 22 km/h

Humidity 51 %

16:00

13°

NW 15

Minneapolis forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +8.0° warmer than usual

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Minneapolis climate: what a normal year looks like

Nights typically freeze from November to March, the coldest averaging −14 °C in January.

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 28 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −14 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 33 °C.

From 15 h 37 min of daylight in late June to 8 h 46 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 15 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (14 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	−6 °C	−14 °C	29 mm
Feb	−3 °C	−11 °C	30 mm
Mar	4 °C	−4 °C	55 mm
Apr	13 °C	3 °C	84 mm
May	20 °C	10 °C	114 mm
Jun	25 °C	16 °C	114 mm
Jul	28 °C	18 °C	94 mm
Aug	26 °C	17 °C	101 mm
Sep	23 °C	12 °C	87 mm
Oct	14 °C	5 °C	69 mm
Nov	5 °C	−2 °C	53 mm
Dec	−3 °C	−10 °C	39 mm
Whole year	12 °C	3 °C	870 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 44.98° N, 93.26° W, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Minneapolis: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.511µg/m³

PM1011µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Minneapolis

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Minneapolis, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Moon over Minneapolis

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 18:13 Set 10:21

Fri 30/10 79%

Sat 31/10 69%

Sun 1/11 59%

Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter

Tue 3/11 38%

Wed 4/11 28%

Thu 5/11 19%

Fri 6/11 12%

Sat 7/11 6%

Sun 8/11 2%

Mon 9/11 0%

Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (America/Chicago); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Minneapolis

Curious about the weather in Minneapolis on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Minneapolis weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Minneapolis, Minnesota: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 11 °C (feels like 11 °C) and the wind blows at 13 km/h.

Expected range today: 6 °C to 13 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

Other big cities nearby

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations