#1Erie Township
Monroe County · 4,348 peopleJanuary low·July high 84°·128 freezing nights a year
Erie Township, #1 on this list · Photo: Dwight Burdette · CC BY 3.0Michigan rankings · Climate
Towns with the mildest winters in Michigan
Erie Township has the mildest winters of Michigan’s 691 towns of 2,500+: January nights average a low of 21° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 16°; none of the 691 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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#2Monroe
Monroe County · 20,076 peopleJanuary low·July high 83°·128 freezing nights a year
Trenton
Wayne County · 17,849 peopleJanuary low·July high 83°·120 freezing nights a year
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January low, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 654 towns here).
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Which Michigan town has the mildest winters?
Erie Township (Monroe County): January nights average a low of 21°. Monroe (20°) and Trenton (20°) 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 (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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