#T1Benton
Bossier Parish · 2,118 peopleJuly high·January low 36°·86 days of 90°+ a year
Benton, #1 on this list · Photo: Billy Hathorn · CC BY-SA 3.0Louisiana rankings · Climate
Towns with the hottest summers in Louisiana
Benton (tied with 4 more) has the hottest summers of Louisiana’s 159 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 94° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 92°; 159 of the 159 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°
Blanchard
Caddo Parish · 3,360 peopleJuly high·January low 37°·98 days of 90°+ a year
#T1Bossier City
Bossier Parish · 63,259 peopleJuly high·January low 36°·96 days of 90°+ a year
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July high, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 153 towns here).
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Which Louisiana town has the hottest summers?
Benton (Bossier Parish): July afternoons average a high of 94°. Blanchard (94°) and Bossier City (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 (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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