Mohave Valley
unincorporated, Mohave County · 2,555 peopleJuly high·January low 45°·177 days of 90°+ a year
Arizona rankings · Climate
Towns with the hottest summers in Arizona
Mohave Valley has the hottest summers of Arizona’s 138 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 111° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 100°; 125 of the 138 average 90° or more.
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
111°
Fort Mohave
unincorporated, Mohave County · 15,715 peopleJuly high·January low 45°·173 days of 90°+ a year
#3Bullhead City
Mohave County · 43,987 peopleJuly high·January low 44°·173 days of 90°+ a year
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July high, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 68 towns here).
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Which Arizona town has the hottest summers?
Mohave Valley (unincorporated, Mohave County): July afternoons average a high of 111°. Fort Mohave (110°) and Bullhead City (110°) follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By the average July high (the warmest month’s afternoons), 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 (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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