CITY PROFILE
St. Cloud, MN
WHAT LIVING HERE IS LIKE
St. Cloud is a smaller metro with housing costs on the pricier side of our dataset, so expect to stretch your budget further than in many comparable towns. The climate is hot with abundant sunshine, though it's also a wet climate, meaning you'll get plenty of both sun and rain—plan for significant precipitation alongside those bright days. It's a compact community, so you'll need to weigh whether the smaller-town feel suits your lifestyle against the housing affordability trade-off.
By the numbers
| Typical home value | $319K · Zillow, May 2026 (ZHVI) |
|---|---|
| Typical rent | $1,248/mo · Zillow, May 2026 (ZORI) |
| Average temperature | 22.6°C · warmest 27.3°C · coolest 15.6°C · NASA POWER |
| Annual precipitation | 1304 mm · NASA POWER |
| Sunshine (solar energy) | 4.87 kWh/m²/day · NASA POWER (annual mean) |
| Metro size rank (US) | #230 · Zillow SizeRank |
Match scores
- Affordable to buy86
- Affordable to rent85
- Climate comfort94
- Plenty of sunshine68
- Big-city amenities44
Scores are 0–100, normalised across the metros we cover, derived from the sourced figures above (higher = better on that factor). A research aid, not a recommendation to move. Job market, safety, and healthcare access need key-gated feeds (BLS, FBI, Census) not yet wired — see the methodology.
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