#1Jasper
Pickens County · 5,400 peopleJuly high·January low 31°·12 days of 90°+ a year
Jasper, #1 on this list · Griffeth-Pendley House · Photo: Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD · CC BY-SA 4.0Georgia rankings · Climate
Towns with the coolest summers in Georgia
Jasper has the coolest summers of Georgia’s 258 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 86° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 90°; none of the 258 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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#2Cleveland
White County · 3,472 peopleJuly high·January low 30°·17 days of 90°+ a year
#3Dawsonville
Dawson County · 4,888 peopleJuly high·January low 30°·32 days of 90°+ a year
All 258 towns
July high, lowest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 246 towns here).
258 towns ranked. Not here? See why a town may be missing.
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T134Social CircleWalton County · 5,537 people90°5233°average low
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Questions people ask
Which Georgia town has the coolest summers?
Jasper (Pickens County): July afternoons average a high of 86°. Cleveland (87°) and Dawsonville (87°) 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 (258 in Georgia): 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 Georgia page.
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