#1Henagar
DeKalb County · 2,361 peopleJuly high·January low 31°·28 days of 90°+ a year
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Towns with the coolest summers in Alabama
Henagar has the coolest summers of Alabama’s 192 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 86° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 91°; none of the 192 stay under 80°.
The average July high. NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020, from NOAA’s 5 km grid at each town’s center; one town for each grid cell. A described list: no letters. How grades work
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#2Fort Payne
DeKalb County · 15,189 peopleJuly high·January low 31°·60 days of 90°+ a year
#3Rainsville
DeKalb County · 6,020 peopleJuly high·January low 31°·60 days of 90°+ a year
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July high, lowest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 180 towns here).
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Which Alabama town has the coolest summers?
Henagar (DeKalb County): July afternoons average a high of 86°. Fort Payne (86°) and Rainsville (87°) follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By the average July high (the warmest month’s afternoons), lowest first, on NOAA’s 1991–2020 normals, read from its 5 km grid at each town’s center. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T); the figure and the state rank are the ones on each town’s Climate page. How grades work.
Why isn’t my town on this list?
The list covers towns of 2,500+ residents, one for each of NOAA’s 5 km grid cells (192 in Alabama): where towns share a cell, one of them stands for it, since the grid gives them the same figures. Every town’s own figures are on its Climate page. Every town is on the Alabama page.
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