#1Two Harbors
Lake County · 3,443 peopleJuly high·January low 4°·1 days of 90°+ a year
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Towns with the coolest summers in Minnesota
Two Harbors has the coolest summers of Minnesota’s 270 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 75° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 82°; 35 of the 270 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°
#2Duluth
St. Louis County · 88,330 peopleJuly high·January low 5°·3 days of 90°+ a year
#3Proctor
St. Louis County · 3,054 peopleJuly high·January low 3°·2 days of 90°+ a year
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July high, lowest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 250 towns here).
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Which Minnesota town has the coolest summers?
Two Harbors (Lake County): July afternoons average a high of 75°. Duluth (76°) and Proctor (77°) 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 (270 in Minnesota): 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 Minnesota page.
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