#1Goshen
3,298 peopleJuly high·January low 14°·1 days of 90°+ a year
Goshen, #1 on this list · Photo: Doncram · CC BY-SA 3.0Connecticut rankings · Climate
Towns with the coolest summers in Connecticut
Goshen has the coolest summers of Connecticut’s 155 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 80° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 83°; 1 of the 155 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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#2Sharon
2,783 peopleJuly high·January low 15°·12 days of 90°+ a year
#3Stonington
18,832 peopleJuly high·January low 24°·3 days of 90°+ a year
All 155 towns
July high, lowest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 146 towns here).
155 towns ranked. Not here? See why a town may be missing.
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Questions people ask
Which Connecticut town has the coolest summers?
Goshen: July afternoons average a high of 80°. Sharon (80°) and Stonington (81°) 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 (155 in Connecticut): 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 Connecticut page.
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