#1Frostburg
Allegany County · 6,979 peopleJuly high·January low 20°·1 days of 90°+ a year
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Towns with the coolest summers in Maryland
Frostburg has the coolest summers of Maryland’s 216 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 82° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 88°; none of the 216 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
#182°
#2Smithsburg
Washington County · 3,212 peopleJuly high·January low 22°·20 days of 90°+ a year
#3Manchester
Carroll County · 5,426 peopleJuly high·January low 22°·12 days of 90°+ a year
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July high, lowest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 207 towns here).
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Which Maryland town has the coolest summers?
Frostburg (Allegany County): July afternoons average a high of 82°. Smithsburg (84°) and Manchester (84°) 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 (216 in Maryland): 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 Maryland page.
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