#1Ulysses
Grant County · 5,524 peopleJuly high·January low 19°·73 days of 90°+ a year
Ulysses, #1 on this list · Grant County Courthouse District · Photo: Ammodramus · CC0Kansas rankings · Climate
Towns with the hottest summers in Kansas
Ulysses has the hottest summers of Kansas’ 153 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 94° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 91°; 97 of the 153 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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Holcomb
Finney County · 2,190 peopleJuly high·January low 18°·74 days of 90°+ a year
#T2Liberal
Seward County · 19,010 peopleJuly high·January low 21°·81 days of 90°+ a year
All 153 towns
July high, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 142 towns here).
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Questions people ask
Which Kansas town has the hottest summers?
Ulysses (Grant County): July afternoons average a high of 94°. Holcomb (94°) and Liberal (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 (153 in Kansas): 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 Kansas page.
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