Days of Sunshine Per Year in Minnesota
Number of Sunny Days
In the table below, the average number of Sunny Days for a city in Minnesota is the total days in a year when the sky is mostly clear. This includes the days when cloud covers up to 30% of the sky during daylight hours.
Partly Sunny Days have cloud covering from 40% to 70% of the sky during the daytime. The rest of the days are mainly overcast, with at least 80% cloud cover.
Total Days With Sun is a sum of the Sunny plus Partly Sunny days. All the numbers are annual averages, made from years of weather watching.
City | Sunny | Partly Sunny | Total Days With Sun |
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Duluth | 77 | 102 | 179 |
International Falls | 76 | 101 | 177 |
Minneapolis & St. Paul | 95 | 101 | 196 |
Rochester | 86 | 97 | 183 |
St. Cloud | 97 | 102 | 199 |
Amount of Sun
Here's another way to look at how much sunshine a city gets. The % Sun number measures the percentage of time between sunrise and sunset that sunshine reaches the ground. Again, these amounts are yearly averages based on many years of weather observations.
City | % Sun |
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Duluth | 52 |
Minneapolis & St. Paul | 58 |
Reference
National Climatic Data Center. Comparative Climatic Data.