#1Bowling Green
Warren County · 78,505 peopleJuly high·January low 28°·47 days of 90°+ a year
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Towns with the hottest summers in Kentucky
Bowling Green has the hottest summers of Kentucky’s 134 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 89° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 87°; none of the 134 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
#189°
Farley
unincorporated, McCracken County · 4,458 peopleJuly high·January low 27°·42 days of 90°+ a year
#T3Calvert City
Marshall County · 2,510 peopleJuly high·January low 27°·38 days of 90°+ a year
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July high, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 126 towns here).
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Questions people ask
Which Kentucky town has the hottest summers?
Bowling Green (Warren County): July afternoons average a high of 89°. Farley (89°) and Calvert City (89°) 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 (134 in Kentucky): 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 Kentucky page.
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