North Dakota Weather

Right now in North Dakota
47°F
Clear

Observed at Fargo (the largest city by population in North Dakota, used as a state-wide proxy). For per-city forecasts, see the city grid below.

Climate at a glance

North Dakota is largely one climate zone across 401 cities and towns. Predominantly warm-summer humid continental (100% of cities), with cold semi-arid pockets (0.5%).

The state spans roughly 3.1° of latitude (45.9° N to 49.0° N), from Forbes in the south to Portal in the north. Fargo is the largest city by population.

ZoneCities%
warm-summer humid continental39999.5%
cold semi-arid20.5%

Microseason · September 21–25 · Plains Continental

Thunder stills across the plains

Afternoon thunderstorm season wanes. Winds shift to more northerly flow. The landscape cools and dries. Monarch migration continues in waves through the region.

Microseason content for North Dakota is drawn from the Plains Continental corpus (100% of the state's cities sit in this region).

Live wind & temperature across North Dakota

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Cities in North Dakota

3 cities with a weather forecast page, largest first

CityJuly normalPopulation
Fargo71°F231,541
Williston70°F28,056
Hillsboro71°F1,704

Our dataset lists 401 places in North Dakota; the 3 above have a page. For a smaller town, the nearest city above is the closest match.

The July figure is that city’s 1991–2020 normal mean temperature, rounded to the nearest degree — NOAA NCEI station normals from the nearest station where one covers the city, otherwise modelled normals (EC_Earth3P_HR via Open-Meteo); each city page names which. Populations come from SimpleMaps US Cities (CC BY 4.0). See methodology for data sources and editorial rules. Maintainer: Brian Tighe.