#1Nantucket
Nantucket County · 14,758 peopleJuly high·January low 26°·0 days of 90°+ a year
Nantucket, #1 on this list · Photo: The original uploader was Bobak at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 2.5Massachusetts rankings · Climate
Towns with the coolest summers in Massachusetts
Nantucket has the coolest summers of Massachusetts’ 278 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 76° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 83°; 21 of the 278 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
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#T2Chatham
Barnstable County · 6,752 peopleJuly high·January low 25°·0 days of 90°+ a year
#T2Orleans
Barnstable County · 6,524 peopleJuly high·January low 25°·0 days of 90°+ a year
All 278 towns
July high, lowest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 267 towns here).
278 towns ranked. Not here? See why a town may be missing.
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Questions people ask
Which Massachusetts town has the coolest summers?
Nantucket (Nantucket County): July afternoons average a high of 76°. Chatham (77°) and Orleans (77°) 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 (278 in Massachusetts): 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 Massachusetts page.
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