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Rapid City, South Dakota Climate & Temperature

⛺ Rapid City, South Dakota has a humid continental climate with severe winters, no dry season, hot summers and strong seasonality (Köppen-Geiger classification: Dfa).hot summer continental climate with no dry season (Dfa)

⛳ Rapid City, South Dakota is situated in or near the cool temperate steppe biome.

🌡️ The annual average temperature is 8 degrees Celsius (46.4 degrees Fahrenheit). See the temperatures page for a monthly breakdown and the fixed scale graph.

🐬 Average monthly temperatures vary by 27.7 °C (49.9°F). This indicates that the continentality type is continental, subtype subcontinental.

☔ Total annual precipitation averages 460.9 mm (18.1 inches) which is equivalent to 460.9 Litres/m² (11.3 Gallons/ft²).

Rapid City, South Dakota Climate Graph

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In the winter time records indicate temperatures by day reach 2.8°C (37°F) on average falling to -11°C (12.2°F) overnight.

In spring time temperatures climb reaching 13.9°C (57°F) generally in the afternoon with overnight lows of 0°C (31.9°F).

During summer average high temperatures are 28.1°C (82.5°F) and average low temperatures are 13.3°C (55.9°F).

Come autumn/ fall temperatures decrease achieving average highs of 16.1°C (60.9°F) during the day and lows of 1°C (33.8°F) generally shortly after sunrise.

✨ The longest day of the year is 15:18 long on the 22 of June and the shortest day is 8:41 long on the 21 of December.

🌞 On average there are 2732 hours of sunshine per year. Visit the sunshine and daylight section to check monthly details including how high in the sky the sun reaches each month.

🐇Were you to burrow down through the centre of the Earth from Rapid City, South Dakota you would pop up nearest to the climate station at Amsterdam Island, French Southern Lands where you would find a Marine west coast climate.

🌍Rapid City, South Dakota, Usa is at 44°4'N, 103°13'W, 993 m (3258 ft). Check the location on the map.

Rapid City, South Dakota Climate Table

 Climate Variable Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov DecAnnual
 
Average Max Temperature °C ( °F) 2 (35) 4 (39) 8 (46) 14 (57) 20 (67) 25 (78) 30 (86) 29 (84) 23 (73) 17 (63) 8 (47) 3 (37) 15 (59)
 
Average Temperature °C ( °F) -5 (23) -3 (26) 1 (34) 7 (45) 13 (55) 18 (65) 23 (73) 21 (70) 15 (59) 9 (49) 1 (35) -4 (25) 8 (46)
 
Average Min Temperature °C ( °F) -12 (10) -10 (14) -6 (21) 0 (32) 6 (43) 12 (53) 15 (59) 13 (56) 7 (45) 1 (35) -5 (22) -11 (13) 1 (33)
 
Average Precipitation mm (in) 8 (0) 12 (0) 24 (1) 53 (2) 81 (3) 84 (3) 66 (3) 51 (2) 31 (1) 28 (1) 12 (0) 11 (0) 461 (18)
Number of Wet Days (probability of rain on a day %) 6 (19) 6 (21) 9 (29) 9 (30) 12 (39) 12 (40) 9 (29) 8 (26) 6 (20) 5 (16) 5 (17) 5 (16) 92 (25)
Average Sunlight Hours/ Day 4h 38' 5h 39' 6h 52' 7h 36' 8h 23' 9h 40' 10h 32' 9h 38' 8h 54' 7h 32' 5h 22' 4h 48' 7h 28'
Average Daylight Hours/ Day 9h 16' 10h 23' 11h 50' 13h 24' 14h 44' 15h 25' 15h 06' 13h 57' 12h 27' 10h 54' 9h 34' 8h 55' 12h 00'
Percentage of Sunny (Cloudy) Daylight Hours 51 (49) 55 (45) 59 (41) 57 (43) 58 (42) 63 (37) 71 (29) 70 (30) 72 (28) 70 (30) 57 (43) 55 (45) 62 (38)
Sun altitude at solar noon on the 21st day (°). 26.1 35.5 46.3 58 66.2 69.4 66.3 57.9 46.4 35 25.9 22.5 46.2

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