Grand Marais, Minnesota

Grand Marais population, 2020 to 2024

Grand Marais lost 34 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.5%. In the latest year it moved by -16.

Grand Marais covers 2.91 square miles of land, for 449 people per square mile of land. The median Minnesota place of 5,000+ has 1,692, so Grand Marais is less dense than the typical town.

What county Grand Marais is in

All of Grand Marais's residents live in Cook County, which had 5,571 residents in 2024. Grand Marais holds 23.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Grand Marais

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Grand Marais by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 55604. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Grand Marais is

The Census internal point of Grand Marais is at 47.758600, -90.344300. Saint Paul, the capital, is 234.1 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Silver Bay, MN (1,776 people), 54.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is St. Paul, MN, 234.5 miles away.

Daylight in Grand Marais

At 47.76° N, Grand Marais gets about 16 h 01 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 24 min around the December solstice, a swing of 7 h 36 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Grand Marais

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Minnesota, measured between internal points. The closest is Silver Bay, 54.1 miles away, with 1,776 people.