Saint Cloud climate — normals and trends
Saint Cloud (United States) has a hot-summer humid continental climate (Dfa) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 6.3 °C and it receives 781 mm of precipitation per year.
These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.
The warmest month is July (22.0 °C on average) and the coldest is January (-11.4 °C). Rainfall peaks in June.
Saint Cloud averages 156 frost days, 17 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 102 rainy days per year.
Saint Cloud has warmed by +2.0 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.24 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.
The number of frost days there went from about 163 to 149 per year over the period.
The hottest day of the period reached 38.5 °C (on 6 July 1988) and the coldest -36.9 °C (on 15 January 1972).
Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.
Climate normals · ERA5
Saint CloudMinnesota
- coords
- 45.56°, -94.16°
- period
- 1940–2025 · 86 yrs
Mean daily temperature
6.3°C
Average daily high
11.2°C
Average daily low
1.6°C
Annual rainfall
781mm
Sunshine / day
8.9h
Mean relative humidity
71%
Average peak wind
18.9km/h
Seasonal range
33.4°C
Frost days (< 0 °C)
156 d/yr
Hot days (≥ 30 °C)
17 d/yr
Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)
102 d/yr
Annual snowfall
92.2 cm
Average feels-like high
8.5 °C
Average feels-like low
-1.8 °C
Average peak gust
38.1 km/h
Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)
12 d/yr
Solar radiation
14.3 MJ/m²
Has the climate changed?
One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025
+2.0 °C
since 1940
+0.2 °C per decade · r² = 0.30 · p = < 0.001
Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).
A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.
Records for the period
Hottest day
38.5 °C
6 July 1988
Coldest day
-36.9 °C
15 January 1972
Wettest day
83 mm
27 August 1960
Windiest day
60.0 km/h
10 October 1949
Strongest gust
121.7 km/h
10 October 1949
Hottest feels-like
43.3 °C
18 July 2011
Coldest feels-like
-42.8 °C
2 February 1996
Snowiest day
27.4 cm
20 November 1975
Sunniest day
15.1 h
13 June 2018
Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.
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Across the whole year
Month by month
| High | vs. normal | Precipitation | vs. normal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | -5.3 °C | +1.7 °C | 8 mm | -15 mm |
| Feb | -5.3 °C | -1.3 °C | 23 mm | -0 mm |
| Mar | 8.4 °C | +5.5 °C | 61 mm | +13 mm |
| Apr | 12.7 °C | +0.8 °C | 104 mm | +26 mm |
| May | 20.9 °C | +1.6 °C | 86 mm | -7 mm |
| Jun | 24.8 °C | +0.3 °C | 131 mm | +17 mm |
| Jul | 27.7 °C | +0.5 °C | 101 mm | +9 mm |
| Aug | 25.8 °C | 0.0 °C | 80 mm | -17 mm |
| Sep | 23.4 °C | +2.7 °C | 77 mm | -3 mm |
| Oct | 15.9 °C | +2.3 °C | 66 mm | +4 mm |
| Nov | 6.1 °C | +2.6 °C | 35 mm | -8 mm |
| Dec | -4.1 °C | 0.0 °C | 40 mm | +11 mm |
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Frequently asked questions
What is the climate of Saint Cloud?
Saint Cloud has a hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 6.3 °C and it receives 781 mm of precipitation per year.
What is the hottest day ever recorded in Saint Cloud?
The hottest day measured in Saint Cloud between 1940 and 2025 was 6 July 1988, reaching 38.5 °C.
What is the coldest day in Saint Cloud?
The coldest day measured in Saint Cloud between 1940 and 2025 was 15 January 1972, at -36.9 °C.
Does it snow in Saint Cloud?
Yes. Saint Cloud gets on average 92.2 cm of snow per year and has around 156 frost days.
Has the climate of Saint Cloud warmed?
Yes: Saint Cloud warmed by +2.0 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.
What is the wettest day in Saint Cloud?
The wettest day measured in Saint Cloud between 1940 and 2025 was 27 August 1960, with 83 mm of rain in 24 hours.
What was the windiest day in Saint Cloud?
The windiest day measured in Saint Cloud between 1940 and 2025 was 10 October 1949, with winds reaching 60.0 km/h.
What is the warmest month in Saint Cloud?
The warmest month in Saint Cloud is July (22.0 °C on average); the coldest is January (-11.4 °C).
How much does it rain in Saint Cloud?
Saint Cloud receives on average 781 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 102 rainy days.
Is it sunny in Saint Cloud?
Saint Cloud gets on average 8.9 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,249 hours per year over 1940-2025.
What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Saint Cloud?
The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Saint Cloud between 1940 and 2025 was 20 November 1975, with 27.4 cm.
Are there tropical nights in Saint Cloud?
Yes: Saint Cloud has on average 12 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.
What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Saint Cloud?
In Saint Cloud, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 43.3 °C on 18 July 2011, and the lowest was -42.8 °C on 2 February 1996.
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