St. James, Minnesota Weather
St. James, Minnesota — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery for St. James, Watonwan County.
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About St. James, Minnesota
St. James rests on a broad, gently rolling prairie, a landscape defined by the endless, sweeping arcs of the sky. It lies 17.1 miles south of Brown, MN (from Brown, MN: bearing 177°T), and is situated 8.5 miles east-north-east of Butterfield. The land here is a rich, dark loam, a testament to centuries of prairie grasses that once bowed and whispered in the wind, now yielding to the ordered rows of cultivated fields. The air, especially in the late afternoon, carries a dry, sun-baked scent, a subtle sweetness of ripening corn and distant alfalfa. The horizon is a clean, unblemished line, broken only by the occasional cluster of mature trees surrounding farmsteads or the distant, silver glint of a drainage ditch, a quiet serpentine thread across the vast expanse. Even the clouds seem to move with a grander, more deliberate pace, their shadows drifting like slow, colossal ships across the sun-drenched earth. The history of St. James is etched in the agricultural heart of southern Minnesota, a place built by the plow and the promise of fertile ground. Its economy has long been rooted in the bounty of the surrounding farmland, with grain elevators standing as silent sentinels to the season's yield. While the echoes of earlier agricultural booms and busts can still be felt in the sturdy, brick buildings downtown, a modern resilience has emerged, adapting to changing times. The Watonwan River, though not a grand waterway, flows nearby, a modest ribbon of water that has sustained life and agriculture since the first settlers arrived, its banks a haven for the local flora and fauna, a subtle counterpoint to the open sky.
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| Location | St. James, Watonwan County, Minnesota |
| Coordinates | 43.982458°N, 94.626918°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 56081 |
| Area Code | 320 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This St. James, Minnesota Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for St. James, Minnesota, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for St. James includes coordinates 43.982458°N, 94.626918°W, situated in Watonwan County. ZIP code 56081. Telephone area code: 320. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
