#T1Ellisville
Jones County · 4,473 peopleJuly high·January low 37°·82 days of 90°+ a year
Ellisville, #1 on this list · Amos Deason House · Photo: Librarylady2726 · CC BY-SA 3.0Mississippi rankings · Climate
Towns with the hottest summers in Mississippi
Ellisville (tied with 1 more) has the hottest summers of Mississippi’s 102 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 92° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 91°; 86 of the 102 average 90° or more.
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
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#T1Laurel
Jones County · 17,662 peopleJuly high·January low 36°·82 days of 90°+ a year
#T3Columbia
Marion County · 6,525 peopleJuly high·January low 38°·90 days of 90°+ a year
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July high, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 97 towns here).
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Questions people ask
Which Mississippi town has the hottest summers?
Ellisville (Jones County): July afternoons average a high of 92°. Laurel (92°) and Columbia (92°) follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By the average July high (the warmest month’s afternoons), 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 (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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