Historical weather data, all-time temperature records, and monthly climate averages for Hopkins, MN. Explore typical weather conditions by week for trip planning, and see how today compares to the historical record.
April 4th in Hopkins sits at that classic Minnesota in-between: historically averaging a high of 50° and a low of 31°, winter isn't quite done but spring is pushing back. The range of outcomes here is wild — this date has hit 77° as recently as 2021, and bottomed out at 8° in 2018, just six years earlier.
Hopkins weather doesn't mess around. The thermometer has swung from a brutal -29° in January 2019 to a scorching 102° in July 2012 — a 131-degree spread that tells you everything about Minnesota's climate personality. A single August day in 1998 dropped 5.14 inches of rain, and a January storm in 2000 buried the area under 10.6 inches of snow.
Summer is the sweet spot, with highs peaking around 84-85° in mid-July and comfortable warmth stretching from May through September. Winters are legitimately cold — January and February average highs only reach the mid-to-upper 20s. If you're planning around rain, late summer is the wet season, with mid-August averaging the most precipitation of any week of the year.