#T1Franklin
St. Mary Parish · 6,224 peopleJuly high·January low 44°·50 days of 90°+ a year
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Towns with the coolest summers in Louisiana
Franklin (tied with 1 more) has the coolest summers of Louisiana’s 159 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 90° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 92°; none of the 159 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
#T190°
#T1Violet
unincorporated, St. Bernard Parish · 4,122 peopleJuly high·January low 44°·54 days of 90°+ a year
Cut Off
unincorporated, Lafourche Parish · 5,398 peopleJuly high·January low 46°·49 days of 90°+ a year
All 159 towns
July high, lowest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 153 towns here).
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Questions people ask
Which Louisiana town has the coolest summers?
Franklin (St. Mary Parish): July afternoons average a high of 90°. Violet (90°) and Cut Off (90°) 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 (159 in Louisiana): 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 Louisiana page.
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