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Brainerd, MN 46.402°N, 94.127°W · station BRDthr · 129 years of record
64°F
COLDEST JUL 19 SINCE 2025
forecast low · Jul 19
NWS NDFD forecast low temperature for Brainerd.
69° TUE 7/14 68° WED 7/15 67° THU 7/16 69° FRI 7/17 66° SAT 7/18 64° SUN 7/19 This Day in History · Jul 19
Today ranks #91 / 114
coldest Jul 19 in 114 yrs of record
Coldest Jul 19 ever 40°F
set in 1927
Mildest Jul 19 ever 79°F
set in 1934
Coldest Jul 19 — Year by Year
Every year's low on Jul 19 at Brainerd. The forecast line shows where today lands; the ringed bar is the coldest on record.
40 60 79 1899: 58°F 1900: 55°F 1901: 65°F 1902: 55°F 1904: 62°F 1912: 48°F 1913: 56°F 1914: 51°F 1915: 51°F 1916: 70°F 1917: 51°F 1918: 50°F 1919: 63°F 1920: 44°F 1921: 58°F 1923: 60°F 1924: 51°F 1925: 59°F 1926: 66°F 1927: 40°F 1928: 55°F 1929: 45°F 1930: 61°F 1931: 64°F 1932: 72°F 1933: 65°F 1934: 79°F 1935: 67°F 1936: 63°F 1937: 51°F 1938: 62°F 1939: 58°F 1940: 63°F 1941: 52°F 1942: 60°F 1943: 53°F 1944: 63°F 1945: 65°F 1946: 58°F 1947: 46°F 1948: 54°F 1949: 56°F 1950: 58°F 1951: 48°F 1952: 65°F 1953: 60°F 1954: 65°F 1955: 64°F 1956: 52°F 1958: 52°F 1959: 56°F 1960: 62°F 1961: 59°F 1962: 61°F 1963: 61°F 1965: 56°F 1966: 62°F 1967: 60°F 1968: 66°F 1971: 47°F 1972: 53°F 1973: 50°F 1974: 59°F 1975: 60°F 1976: 52°F 1977: 65°F 1978: 50°F 1979: 55°F 1980: 60°F 1981: 54°F 1982: 51°F 1983: 58°F 1984: 46°F 1985: 58°F 1986: 65°F 1987: 68°F 1988: 55°F 1989: 56°F 1990: 56°F 1991: 62°F 1992: 51°F 1993: 60°F 1994: 59°F 1995: 56°F 1996: 64°F 1997: 63°F 1998: 64°F 1999: 57°F 2000: 47°F 2001: 65°F 2002: 56°F 2003: 57°F 2004: 56°F 2005: 47°F 2006: 68°F 2007: 55°F 2008: 61°F 2009: 44°F 2010: 54°F 2011: 72°F 2012: 63°F 2013: 66°F 2014: 61°F 2015: 61°F 2016: 55°F 2017: 51°F 2018: 60°F 2019: 63°F 2020: 68°F 2021: 61°F 2022: 65°F 2023: 63°F 2024: 48°F 2025: 55°F 64° forecast 1899 2025 1927 Forecast low · Jul 19 64°F Coldest this date since 2025 This-date record 40°F This-date rank #91 of 114
Coldest at any time since 2026 All-time record -54°F (1996) Odds to tie/break 0.0% (daily) Period of record 1898–2026
The hottest and coldest ever recorded at Brainerd in each calendar month, and for the whole 1898–2026 record — with the year each was set.
Month Record High Record Low Jan 56°F 1981 -48°F 1972 Feb 60°F 1932 -54°F 1996 Mar 80°F 1946 -35°F 1948 Apr 94°F 1980 -12°F 1975 May 101°F 1934 16°F 1967 Jun 100°F 1988 21°F 1917 Jul 106°F 1936 33°F 1917 Aug 102°F 1947 29°F 1976 Sep 103°F 1931 18°F 1974 Oct 89°F 2023 3°F 1917 Nov 75°F 2020 -24°F 1964 Dec 61°F 1939 -43°F 1983 All-time 106°F 1936 -54°F 1996
Records set or tied at Brainerd so far this year — through Jul 11.
Record Highs in 2026 3 broke
plus 1 tied — daily record highs set this year
Record Lows in 2026 0 broke
plus 0 tied — daily record lows set this year
Current run 0 days
consecutive days with a low ≤ 32°F
Longest ever 165 days
record run, ended Apr 10 1996
So far in 2026 107 days
days with a low ≤ 32°F this year
Normal low & low by month, from Brainerd's own 1991–2020 record. Today's normal low: 59°F · forecast is +5° vs normal .
Jan: 20°F Jan: 0°F Feb: 26°F Feb: 4°F Mar: 39°F Mar: 18°F Apr: 54°F Apr: 31°F May: 67°F May: 44°F Jun: 76°F Jun: 54°F Jul: 80°F Jul: 58°F Aug: 78°F Aug: 56°F Sep: 70°F Sep: 47°F Oct: 55°F Oct: 36°F Nov: 38°F Nov: 22°F Dec: 25°F Dec: 8°F J F M A M J J A S O N D Sun & Daylight Today Sunrise 4:37 AM Sunset 8:07 PM Solar noon 12:22 PM Daylight 15h 30m · losing 10 min/wk
Local standard time (no DST), level horizon.
Location 46.40°N, 94.13°W Brainerd's observed daily low for the last six weeks — a white ring marks any day that broke or tied its daily record for that date.
Every day this year against Brainerd's own record — the record low, the normal, and the full span ever seen. A shareable look at where the year stands.
Each cell is one day's low at Brainerd, coloured by temperature — 129 years of record, so heat waves read as warm streaks and cold snaps as blue.
How many days a year hit a given low at Brainerd — counted through Jul 19 each year, so you can see whether 2026 is running cold. Pick a threshold:
40° 32° 20° 10° 0° -10° -20°
107 days ≤32°F so far in 2026 — tied for the 61st most in 129 years. Normal for this point: 99 . Record: 142 in 1917.
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