All-time weather records — Hill City, MN

Record high
102.9°F
July 13, 1936
Record low
-59.1°F
February 16, 1903
Wettest day
5.62 in
October 10, 1973

Climate change signal in Hill City

7.4%

of Hill City's all-time daily heat records were set in the last decade (27 of 366 records since 2015).

0%

of all-time daily cold records were set in the last decade (0 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 #
1890s
5
76
1900s
34
95
1910s
28
52
1920s
30
44
1930s
51
33
1940s
27
21
1950s
28
17
1960s
23
6
1970s
29
6
1980s
50
3
1990s
14
12
2000s
10
1
2010s
20
·
2020s
17
·

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 1897, the latest in 2025. Period of observation: 1893-2026.

Records by month

Month Hottest day Coldest day Wettest day
January 53.1°F — Jan 20, 1908 -56.9°F — Jan 24, 1904 1.09 in — Jan 4, 1897
February 60.1°F — Feb 22, 1961 -59.1°F — Feb 16, 1903 0.88 in — Feb 18, 2026
March 81.0°F — Mar 28, 1946 -50.1°F — Mar 2, 1897 2.03 in — Mar 24, 1901
April 91.9°F — Apr 21, 1980 -17.0°F — Apr 2, 1899 2.12 in — Apr 24, 1960
May 100.9°F — May 31, 1934 6.1°F — May 22, 1982 3.25 in — May 1, 1955
June 98.1°F — Jun 22, 1911 21.0°F — Jun 1, 1897 4.43 in — Jun 17, 1994
July 102.9°F — Jul 13, 1936 33.1°F — Jul 31, 1903 4.43 in — Jul 8, 1926
August 98.1°F — Aug 4, 1947 24.1°F — Aug 24, 1896 5.08 in — Aug 25, 1941
September 99.0°F — Sep 8, 1931 6.1°F — Sep 4, 2000 4.01 in — Sep 2, 1937
October 88.0°F — Oct 5, 1963 -0.9°F — Oct 23, 1917 5.62 in — Oct 10, 1973
November 73.0°F — Nov 5, 2020 -45.0°F — Nov 30, 1896 1.78 in — Nov 2, 1938
December 60.1°F — Dec 1, 1962 -56.9°F — Dec 31, 1898 1.34 in — Dec 16, 2015

Click a month to see every daily record for that month in Hill City.