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Weather in Great Bend, ND · National Weather Service + NOAA

Great Bend has real winters

Great Bend has cold, snowy winters and pleasant summers. A typical July afternoon reaches 82°, a January night drops to 1°, and about 49 inches of snow falls in a normal winter. A typical November afternoon reaches 40°, and nights fall to 21°.

Winter 23°/5°Spring 54°/32°Summer 80°/58°Fall 56°/35°
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Sunrise 8:09 am · sunset 6:11 pm

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What stands out about Great Bend’s weather

Read from 30 years of NOAA records. Each one opens the full story on the Climate page.

Climate →
Real wintersJanuary nights average 1°, colder than 95% of U.S. towns.A long growing season152 frost-free days, from May 4 to Oct 3.Snow that staysSnow covers the ground about 103 days a year.Wetter than most of North Dakota24 inches of rain and melted snow a year, more than 1,689 of 1,711 North Dakota towns.
A normal year

Where today sits in Great Bend’s year

Typical highs and lows month by month, from 30 years of NOAA records.

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Winter
23° / 5°
18 days with an inch or more of snow
Spring
54° / 32°
Last frost around May 4
Summer
80° / 58°
8 days reach 90° in a normal year
Fall now
56° / 35°
First frost around Oct 3
Pastthe usual first frost (Oct 3). Last frost next spring: May 4
Best months to be outside
MayJunJulAugSep
Highs of 62–84° and lows of 40° or more
How much snow does Great Bend get?About 49 inches a winter.When is it wettest?June, with 4.0 inches.Is it warmer than it used to be?+1.4° vs. the 20th century.

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Forecast, conditions and alerts: National Weather Service. Climate: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020 and 1901–2000. Temperatures and rainfall come from NOAA’s gridded normals for Great Bend itself (about a 3-mile square). Snow, frost dates and day counts: the NOAA station at Victor 4 N, SD (16 mi). Sunrise and sunset are calculated from the town’s position. Normals are 30-year averages, not a forecast.