Galliano
unincorporated, Lafourche Parish · 5,906 peopleJanuary low·July high 90°·9 freezing nights a year
Louisiana rankings · Climate
Towns with the mildest winters in Louisiana
Galliano has the mildest winters of Louisiana’s 159 towns of 2,500+: January nights average a low of 46° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 42°; 159 of the 159 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
46°
Cut Off
unincorporated, Lafourche Parish · 5,398 peopleJanuary low·July high 90°·9 freezing nights a year
#3Chauvin
unincorporated, Terrebonne Parish · 2,502 peopleJanuary low·July high 90°·9 freezing nights a year
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January low, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 126 towns here).
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Which Louisiana town has the mildest winters?
Galliano (unincorporated, Lafourche Parish): January nights average a low of 46°. Cut Off (46°) and Chauvin (46°) 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 (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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