#T1Mountain Home
Elmore County · 16,779 peopleJuly high·January low 24°·65 days of 90°+ a year
Mountain Home, #1 on this list · Photo: publichall · CC BY-SA 3.0Idaho rankings · Climate
Towns with the hottest summers in Idaho
Mountain Home (tied with 1 more) has the hottest summers of Idaho’s 63 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 94° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 88°; 23 of the 63 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
#T194°
#T1Mountain Home AFB
unincorporated, Elmore County · 3,219 peopleJuly high·January low 25°·65 days of 90°+ a year
#3Weiser
Washington County · 6,249 peopleJuly high·January low 22°·59 days of 90°+ a year
All 63 towns
July high, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 25 towns here).
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Questions people ask
Which Idaho town has the hottest summers?
Mountain Home (Elmore County): July afternoons average a high of 94°. Mountain Home AFB (94°) and Weiser (94°) 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 (63 in Idaho): 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 Idaho page.
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