#1Williams
Coconino County · 3,473 peopleJuly high·January low 22°·8 days of 90°+ a year
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Towns with the coolest summers in Arizona
Williams has the coolest summers of Arizona’s 138 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 82° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 100°; none of the 138 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
#182°
#2Eagar
Apache County · 4,459 peopleJuly high·January low 15°·14 days of 90°+ a year
#3Heber-Overgaard
unincorporated, Navajo County · 3,621 peopleJuly high·January low 19°·8 days of 90°+ a year
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July high, lowest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 68 towns here).
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Which Arizona town has the coolest summers?
Williams (Coconino County): July afternoons average a high of 82°. Eagar (84°) and Heber-Overgaard (84°) 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 (138 in Arizona): 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 Arizona page.
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