Historical weather data, all-time temperature records, and monthly climate averages for Dickinson, ND. Explore typical weather conditions by week for trip planning, and see how today compares to the historical record.
April 5th in Dickinson is a coin-flip kind of day — expect a high near 51° and a low around 26°, with only an 11% chance of snow. But history keeps things honest: it's hit 81° on this date (1991) and bottomed out at 5° (1979), a 76-degree spread that says everything about spring on the Northern Plains.
Dickinson has seen it all, from a scorching 109° in July 1981 to a brutal -36° as recently as February 2025 — a range of 145 degrees between its extremes. A single July storm in 2007 dropped 3.19 inches of rain, and an April blizzard in 1984 buried the city under 11.2 inches of snow.
Summer is the clear window for comfortable travel, with late July averaging a high of 85° and June bringing the most rainfall at around 0.82 inches per week. Winters are genuinely harsh — January highs average just 24° — and spring and fall move fast, so pack layers if you're visiting outside of June through August.