Rapid City, SD Weather Forecast

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Clear night
46°

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  • Humidity: 48%
  • Visibility: 6.2 Mi
  • Wind: WSW at 12 MPH
  • Dew Point: 0° F
  • Cloud Cover: 0%
  • UV Index: 0 - Low
  • Air Quality: Good
  • Moon: New Moon (2% full) · up 6:12am, down 3:50pm

☀ Solar Outbreak Watch: Quiet · largest flare C2.1 · Kp 3 The sun naps. The horde does not. full report →

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Zombie Survival Index™

65/100 — MODERATE Ssstay alerrrt

  • Chilly: sluggish shamblers today
  • Clear sightlines: you will see them coming
  • Darkness: their favorite

Today's undead advice: Count your group at dusk. Count again at dawn.

Rule #5 Silence is golden After dark, sound carries — and so does the smell of the living. all the Rules of Survival →

🌡 The weather here, in general

Rapid City gets a real winter. February nights average 17°F, and July highs reach about 86°F — a 69-degree swing across the year. Cold that deep is its own hazard: exposed skin, car batteries and water pipes all have opinions about it.

The thermometer rarely spikes — only about 21 days a year top 90°F — but it hardly needs to. Summer sits in the mid-eighties for months at a stretch, and with humidity on top of it the heat index runs well above what the air temperature suggests.

Snow is a real feature of the year: roughly 37 inches falls in an average year, mostly across February, March, April, October and December. With 144 nights a year at or below freezing, ice on the roads is a longer season than snow on the ground.

Rainfall averages about 18 inches a year, wettest in May and driest in January.

MonthAvg highAvg lowRainSnow
Jan37°18° 0.5"2.8"
Feb37°17° 0.9"5.4"
Mar47°26° 1.1"5.8"
Apr55°33° 2.4"7.8"
May65°45° 3.4"2.8"
Jun80°58° 2.6"—
Jul86°63° 1.6"—
Aug83°61° 1.6"—
Sep76°54° 1.1"—
Oct60°40° 1.5"3"
Nov48°29° 0.6"2.8"
Dec37°20° 0.9"6.2"

Averages from ten years of observed daily records (2015–2024) for this location. They describe what is typical, not what will happen — for that, see the forecast above.

📷 Golden Hour

  • Golden hour: 3:51pm - 4:33pm (dawn: 6:39am - 7:21am)
  • Blue hour: 4:33pm - 5:04pm (dawn: 6:08am - 6:39am)
  • Sun sets: 247° WSW (rises 113° ESE)
  • Dark sky: 6:12pm – 5:00am · next new moon Nov 9 (1d)

Prime Sunset odds 90/100 High cloud with gaps — this is the good stuff. Get in position early.

New Moon
2% · full Nov 24

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Mon

Mostly cloudy night

High: 62° F
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Low: 43° F
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Moderate confidence ±3.5°
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Tue

Partly cloudy night

High: 62° F
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Low: 41° F
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Moderate confidence ±4.5°
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Wed

Clear night

High: 59° F
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Low: 37° F
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Low confidence ±6.1°
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Thu

Mostly cloudy night

High: 47° F
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Low: 35° F
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Low confidence ±10°
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Fri

Mostly cloudy night

High: 36° F
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Low: 36° F
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Low confidence ±14.2°
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Sun Nov 8 5am 46° F

Clear night
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  • Cloud Cover: 0%
  • Dew Point: 0° F
  • Humidity: 48%
  • Precipitation: None
  • UV Index: 0 - Unknown
  • Visibility: 6.2 Mi
  • Wind: 7 MPH / WSW
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Sun Nov 8 8am 48° F

Mostly sunny
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  • Cloud Cover: 12%
  • Dew Point: 0° F
  • Humidity: 51%
  • Precipitation: None
  • UV Index: 0 - Unknown
  • Visibility: 6.2 Mi
  • Wind: 6 MPH / SSW
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Sun Nov 8 11am 61° F

Partly cloudy
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  • Cloud Cover: 40%
  • Dew Point: 0° F
  • Humidity: 40%
  • Precipitation: None
  • UV Index: 0 - Unknown
  • Visibility: 6.2 Mi
  • Wind: 10 MPH / SSE
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Sun Nov 8 2pm 70° F

Cloudy
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  • Cloud Cover: 66%
  • Dew Point: 0° F
  • Humidity: 26%
  • Precipitation: None
  • UV Index: 0 - Unknown
  • Visibility: 6.2 Mi
  • Wind: 8 MPH / S
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Sun Nov 8 5pm 54° F

Mostly cloudy night
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  • Cloud Cover: 80%
  • Dew Point: 0° F
  • Humidity: 53%
  • Precipitation: None
  • UV Index: 0 - Unknown
  • Visibility: 6.2 Mi
  • Wind: 4 MPH / SW
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Sun Nov 8 8pm 49° F

Mostly cloudy night
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  • Cloud Cover: 51%
  • Dew Point: 0° F
  • Humidity: 49%
  • Precipitation: None
  • UV Index: 0 - Unknown
  • Visibility: 6.2 Mi
  • Wind: 7 MPH / W
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Sun Nov 8 11pm 46° F

Mostly cloudy night
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  • Cloud Cover: 52%
  • Dew Point: 0° F
  • Humidity: 50%
  • Precipitation: None
  • UV Index: 0 - Unknown
  • Visibility: 6.2 Mi
  • Wind: 8 MPH / WNW
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Mon Nov 9 2am 49° F

Mostly cloudy night
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  • Cloud Cover: 63%
  • Dew Point: 0° F
  • Humidity: 50%
  • Precipitation: None
  • UV Index: 0 - Unknown
  • Visibility: 6.2 Mi
  • Wind: 8 MPH / WNW

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