St. Cloud, Minnesota climate: Normal weather by month, frost dates and records

What is the weather like in St. Cloud each month?

July is the warmest month, with normal highs of 82°F; January the coldest, with normal lows of 3°F. The most precipitation falls in August (4.00 in), the least in January (0.67 in).

Each month has its own page with the day-by-day normals, the month's records and its recent years:

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When is the best weather to visit St. Cloud?

Normal highs sit between 65°F and 85°F in May, June, July, August and September. Of those, August has the fewest days with rain (9).

That is a measurement, not a recommendation: it counts the months whose normal afternoon high sits between 65°F and 85°F, where a light layer is enough by day.

When is the last frost in St. Cloud?

In St. Cloud, the last spring frost (32°F) comes after May 7 in half of years and after May 23 in one year in ten; the first autumn frost comes before September 30 in half of years and before September 16 in one year in ten.

Last spring frost, half of years after

May 71 year in 10 after May 23; 9 in 10 after April 24

First autumn frost, half of years before

September 301 year in 10 before September 16; 9 in 10 before October 12

NOAA puts the median frost-free season at 144 days, and the season without a hard freeze (28°F) at 164 days.

A hard freeze (28°F) comes after April 27 in half of springs and before October 8 in half of autumns.

The USDA's 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts St. Cloud in zone 4b across its 3 ZIP code areas (4b in 56301, the largest). By the map's own method, the average of each year's coldest night over 1991-2020, St. Cloud's NOAA station is in zone 4a: the coldest night of a typical year reaches −25°F (30 complete years); the map interpolates between stations and terrain, so the station and the ZIP area can differ by half a zone.

Frost dates for every NOAA station in Minnesota · Frost dates by ZIP code

What hardiness zone is each St. Cloud ZIP code in?

The USDA's 2023 map gives each ZIP code area one zone. St. Cloud's 3 ZIP code areas are all in zone 4b. Each ZIP's frost dates are in the frost tool.

How hot and how cold does it get in St. Cloud?

In a normal year in St. Cloud, 9 days a year reach 90°F, 173 nights fall to 32°F or colder and 111 days bring measurable precipitation.

Days at 90°F or more

9a normal year

Days at 100°F or more

fewer than 1a normal year

Nights at 32°F or colder

173a normal year

Days that stay below freezing

84high of 32°F or less

Days with 0.01 inch of precipitation

111a normal year

Days with 1 inch of snow or more

15a normal year

The highest temperature in this station's record (since 1896) is 107°F, on July 23, 1934; the lowest is −43°F, on January 9, 1977.

The wettest calendar year on that record is 2019, with 41.92 in; the snowiest season is 2022–23, with 88.2 inches.

How humid and windy is St. Cloud, and how clear are its skies?

The summer (June-August) dew point averages 59°F. The muggiest month is July, with an average dew point of 60°F; the driest air comes in January (8°F). March is the windiest month (9.3 mph on average), and August has the most clear or nearly clear hours (71%).

How sunny is St. Cloud?

Over a year 74% of the sunlight that would reach the ground under clear skies gets through the clouds in the area around St. Cloud, 3.9 kWh per square metre a day. July is the sunniest month (82%) and December the cloudiest (61%). Among the 459 U.S. places of 50,000 or more, that ranks tied 330th (with 21 others) in sunshine.

How much heating and cooling does St. Cloud need?

A normal year in St. Cloud brings 8,490 heating degree days, 58% more than the median U.S. place (5,373), and 468 cooling degree days, 48% fewer than the median (908). Seven months need 300 or more heating degree days, a monthly mean of about 55°F or colder. For gardens and crops, NOAA counts 2,311 growing degree days a year above 50°F.

Has St. Cloud been warmer than normal lately?

2025 averaged 44.8°F, 1.9°F above the 1991-2020 normal of 42.9°F. 4 of the 5 complete years since 2021 ran warmer than the normal.

Over 83 complete years from 1941 to 2025, the station's annual mean temperature rose at a fitted 4.2°F per century (+0.23°C per decade). A fitted rate summarizes the whole record; single years swing well above and below it.

Which places near St. Cloud share this climate record?

4 places have no NOAA station with 1991-2020 normals of their own, and this station is the nearest full record. A place's own climate can differ from these figures, by several degrees where it sits much higher or lower than the station, nearer the coast, or inside a large city's heat; for the larger places the next nearest records are named with their yearly mean, so the spread around them is visible, and places of 50,000 or more have their own page with NOAA's gridded normals.

• Sauk Rapids, MN13,832 people · 6 mi NW
• Foley, MN2,666 people · 11 mi NE
• Clearwater, MN2,221 people · 9 mi S
• Clear Lake, MN679 people · 7 mi S

Nearby and next

• St. Cloud in OctoberThis month day by day, its records and recent years
• Minnesota climateThe statewide normals and every place in the state
• Santiago (3 mi E), MN14 miles from this station, 43.7°F a year
• Rice, MN17 miles from this station, 41.6°F a year
• Collegeville St John's, MN17 miles from this station, 43.5°F a year
• Kimball, MN18 miles from this station, 42.5°F a year
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