All-time weather records — Grand Rapids, MN

Record high
104.0°F
July 11, 1936
Record low
-51.0°F
January 26, 1927
Wettest day
4.78 in
June 19, 2012

Climate change signal in Grand Rapids

12.6%

of Grand Rapids's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (46 of 366 records since 2015).

0.8%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (3 of 366 records since 2015).

If records were spread evenly across the station's history, you'd expect roughly 5% per decade. Decade-by-decade, here's where each record-breaking day was set:

Decade Heat records set # Cold records set #
1910s
12
78
1920s
50
77
1930s
53
55
1940s
26
42
1950s
19
39
1960s
15
23
1970s
18
23
1980s
37
11
1990s
43
11
2000s
28
3
2010s
35
3
2020s
30
1

Records are the all-time daily extremes that are still standing — each daily record can only be held by one year. The station's earliest hot record was set in 1916, the latest in 2026. Period of observation: 1915-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 53.1°F — Jan 31, 2024 -51.0°F — Jan 26, 1927 1.25 in — Jan 4, 1997
February 61.0°F — Feb 22, 1961 -45.0°F — Feb 21, 1939 1.45 in — Feb 1, 1922
March 80.1°F — Mar 28, 1946 -38.9°F — Mar 1, 1962 2.26 in — Mar 23, 2009
April 93.0°F — Apr 21, 1980 -9.9°F — Apr 2, 1920 1.92 in — Apr 3, 1940
May 100.9°F — May 31, 1934 0.0°F — May 9, 1916 3.14 in — May 1, 1955
June 100.0°F — Jun 26, 1921 0.0°F — Jun 1, 1915 4.78 in — Jun 19, 2012
July 104.0°F — Jul 11, 1936 25.0°F — Jul 17, 1915 4.16 in — Jul 2, 1978
August 100.0°F — Aug 19, 1976 27.0°F — Aug 28, 1934 4.37 in — Aug 3, 1983
September 99.0°F — Sep 8, 1931 15.1°F — Sep 26, 1939 3.94 in — Sep 2, 1937
October 89.1°F — Oct 1, 2023 -9.9°F — Oct 23, 1917 4.44 in — Oct 9, 1973
November 80.1°F — Nov 11, 1930 -25.1°F — Nov 28, 1940 2.27 in — Nov 18, 2016
December 59.0°F — Dec 1, 1962 -45.0°F — Dec 31, 1946 1.24 in — Dec 24, 2023

Click a month to see every daily record for that month in Grand Rapids.