Coming at the end of November, you’d think that Thanksgiving in Sioux Falls would be a winter wonderland. While it’s not exactly a warm July day, it’s often a surprisingly dry and mild day.
That’s good for a holiday where travel is so important to celebrating. Thanksgiving is about getting together with your family and friends, so someone is likely driving somewhere.
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On average, Sioux Falls has a Thanksgiving Day high temperature of 37 degrees and a low of 19 degrees.Looking at the historical weather data from our friends at the Sioux Falls office of the National Weather Service, we can see that our Thanksgiving can be a very cold single-digit day, sometimes with snow, or a nearly spring day with highs in the 60s. Oh, and everywhere in between those extremes.
The Warmest Thanksgiving Days on Record
In 1914, Sioux Falls could have had a Thanksgiving picnic. That day, the high temperature was 67 degrees. In 2011, we hit 65. In 1998 and 2018, we climbed to 62.
When Thanksgiving Froze Sioux Falls
The coldest high temperature recorded on Thanksgiving in Sioux Falls was in 1985, when it only got up to 3 degrees. In 1905, Sioux Falls woke up on Thanksgiving morning to the coldest temperature ever recorded for the holiday, an early morning low of 9 below zero. In 2014, we started the day at -7.
Surprisingly, Sioux Falls usually has a dry Turkey Day. Since 1893 only 35% of Thanksgiving Days in Sioux Falls had snowfall. It’s been since 2015 that we had more than a trace of snowfall on the holiday. That day we got nearly an inch and a half of snow…