#1Fruita
Mesa County · 14,003 peopleJuly high·January low 16°·70 days of 90°+ a year
Fruita, #1 on this list · Photo: Librarian Hat, AG · Public domainColorado rankings · Climate
Towns with the hottest summers in Colorado
Fruita has the hottest summers of Colorado’s 149 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 96° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 89°; 45 of the 149 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
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#2Redlands
unincorporated, Mesa County · 8,868 peopleJuly high·January low 17°·68 days of 90°+ a year
#3Grand Junction
Mesa County · 71,827 peopleJuly high·January low 18°·68 days of 90°+ a year
All 149 towns
July high, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 92 towns here).
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Which Colorado town has the hottest summers?
Fruita (Mesa County): July afternoons average a high of 96°. Redlands (96°) and Grand Junction (95°) 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 (149 in Colorado): 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 Colorado page.
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