#1Garden Township
Cherokee County · 2,713 peopleJanuary low·July high 91°·87 freezing nights a year
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Towns with the mildest winters in Kansas
Garden Township has the mildest winters of Kansas’ 153 towns of 2,500+: January nights average a low of 26° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 21°; none of the 153 stay above freezing.
The average January low. 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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#T2Baxter Springs
Cherokee County · 3,823 peopleJanuary low·July high 91°·95 freezing nights a year
#T2Galena
Cherokee County · 2,788 peopleJanuary low·July high 90°·87 freezing nights a year
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January low, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 121 towns here).
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Which Kansas town has the mildest winters?
Garden Township (Cherokee County): January nights average a low of 26°. Baxter Springs (25°) and Galena (25°) follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By the average January low (the coldest month’s nights), 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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