#1Manistique
Schoolcraft County · 2,868 peopleJuly high·January low 12°·0 days of 90°+ a year
Manistique, #1 on this list · Manistique East Breakwater Light · Photo: Chris Beechler · CC BY-SA 4.0Michigan rankings · Climate
Towns with the coolest summers in Michigan
Manistique has the coolest summers of Michigan’s 691 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 75° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 82°; 72 of the 691 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
#175°
Chocolay Township
Marquette County · 6,014 peopleJuly high·January low 13°·3 days of 90°+ a year
#3Sault Ste. Marie
Chippewa County · 13,083 peopleJuly high·January low 8°·1 days of 90°+ a year
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July high, lowest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 674 towns here).
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Which Michigan town has the coolest summers?
Manistique (Schoolcraft County): July afternoons average a high of 75°. Chocolay Township (75°) and Sault Ste. Marie (76°) 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 (691 in Michigan): 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 Michigan page.
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