Union Township
Putnam County · 2,086 peopleJuly high·January low 15°·20 days of 90°+ a year
Missouri rankings · Climate
Towns with the coolest summers in Missouri
Union Township has the coolest summers of Missouri’s 236 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 85° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 88°; none of the 236 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
85°
#T2Kirksville
Adair County · 17,863 peopleJuly high·January low 16°·22 days of 90°+ a year
Polk Township
Nodaway County · 13,673 peopleJuly high·January low 15°·31 days of 90°+ a year
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July high, lowest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 232 towns here).
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Which Missouri town has the coolest summers?
Union Township (Putnam County): July afternoons average a high of 85°. Kirksville (86°) and Polk Township (86°) 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 (236 in Missouri): 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 Missouri page.
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