La Crescent
Houston County · 5,261 peopleJanuary low·July high 83°·141 freezing nights a year
Minnesota rankings · Climate
Towns with the mildest winters in Minnesota
La Crescent has the mildest winters of Minnesota’s 270 towns of 2,500+: January nights average a low of 9° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 6°; none of the 270 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
9°
#2Caledonia
Houston County · 2,768 peopleJanuary low·July high 81°·160 freezing nights a year
#3Winona
Winona County · 26,530 peopleJanuary low·July high 83°·148 freezing nights a year
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January low, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 231 towns here).
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Which Minnesota town has the mildest winters?
La Crescent (Houston County): January nights average a low of 9°. Caledonia (8°) and Winona (8°) 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 (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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