#T1Ocean City
Worcester County · 6,840 peopleJanuary low·July high 86°·81 freezing nights a year
Ocean City, #1 on this list · Captain Robert S. Craig Cottage · Photo: Linda Roy Walls · CC BY-SA 4.0Maryland rankings · Climate
Towns with the mildest winters in Maryland
Ocean City (tied with 1 more) has the mildest winters of Maryland’s 216 towns of 2,500+: January nights average a low of 30° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 26°; none of the 216 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
#T130°
West Ocean City
unincorporated, Worcester County · 5,198 peopleJanuary low·July high 86°·81 freezing nights a year
#3Ocean Pines
unincorporated, Worcester County · 12,351 peopleJanuary low·July high 86°·81 freezing nights a year
All 216 towns
January low, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 199 towns here).
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#TownJanuary lowNights ≤32°July high
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Questions people ask
Which Maryland town has the mildest winters?
Ocean City (Worcester County): January nights average a low of 30°. West Ocean City (30°) and Ocean Pines (30°) 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 (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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