#1Kittery
York County · 11,420 peopleJanuary low·July high 80°·143 freezing nights a year
Kittery, #1 on this list · Photo: Greencan7 · CC BY-SA 4.0Maine rankings · Climate
Towns with the mildest winters in Maine
Kittery has the mildest winters of Maine’s 170 towns of 2,500+: January nights average a low of 16° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 10°; none of the 170 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
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#2York Harbor
unincorporated, York County · 4,240 peopleJanuary low·July high 80°·149 freezing nights a year
#T3Kittery
unincorporated, York County · 5,110 peopleJanuary low·July high 80°·143 freezing nights a year
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January low, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 129 towns here).
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#TownJanuary lowNights ≤32°July high
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Questions people ask
Which Maine town has the mildest winters?
Kittery (York County): January nights average a low of 16°. York Harbor (16°) and Kittery (16°) 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 (170 in Maine): 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 Maine page.
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