#T1Gulf Hills
unincorporated, Jackson County · 8,451 peopleJuly high·January low 42°·52 days of 90°+ a year
Gulf Hills, #1 on this list · Photo: Roastedbeanz1 · CC BY 4.0Mississippi rankings · Climate
Towns with the coolest summers in Mississippi
Gulf Hills (tied with 2 more) has the coolest summers of Mississippi’s 102 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 89° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 91°; none of the 102 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
#T189°
#T1Ocean Springs
Jackson County · 18,993 peopleJuly high·January low 42°·52 days of 90°+ a year
#T1St. Martin
unincorporated, Jackson County · 8,139 peopleJuly high·January low 43°·52 days of 90°+ a year
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July high, lowest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 97 towns here).
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Which Mississippi town has the coolest summers?
Gulf Hills (unincorporated, Jackson County): July afternoons average a high of 89°. Ocean Springs (89°) and St. Martin (89°) 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 (102 in Mississippi): 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 Mississippi page.
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