#1Gulf Shores
Baldwin County · 17,394 peopleJanuary low·July high 90°·4 freezing nights a year
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Towns with the mildest winters in Alabama
Gulf Shores has the mildest winters of Alabama’s 192 towns of 2,500+: January nights average a low of 44° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 33°; 153 of the 192 stay above freezing.
The average January low. 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
#144°
#2Bon Secour
unincorporated, Baldwin County · 2,789 peopleJanuary low·July high 90°·28 freezing nights a year
#3Orange Beach
Baldwin County · 8,798 peopleJanuary low·July high 90°·14 freezing nights a year
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January low, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 152 towns here).
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Which Alabama town has the mildest winters?
Gulf Shores (Baldwin County): January nights average a low of 44°. Bon Secour (43°) and Orange Beach (43°) follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By the average January low (the coldest month’s nights), highest 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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