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Typical August weather

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Minnesota · August

Summer eases off just as the fair takes over.

81° days
63° nights

about 6 rainy days · 14 hours of daylight

What to pack

What August feels like

The Great Minnesota Get-Together opens the Thursday before Labor Day and dominates conversation for weeks beforehand; plan hotels and traffic around it. Evenings start cooling noticeably, which is the first honest signal of what is coming.

Expect about 6 days with real rain — enough to notice, not enough to plan around. There’s a little humidity in the air, but nothing that changes your plans.

The numbers

Typical high81°
Typical low63°
Days with real rain6
Total rain4.3 in
Humiditya touch humid
Sunrise / sunset (mid-month)6:15 am / 8:19 pm

How August compares

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