#1Laurinburg
Scotland County · 14,582 peopleJuly high·January low 32°·69 days of 90°+ a year
Laurinburg, #1 on this list · Photo: Gerry Dincher from Hope Mills, NC · CC BY-SA 2.0North Carolina rankings · Climate
Towns with the hottest summers in North Carolina
Laurinburg has the hottest summers of North Carolina’s 287 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 91° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 89°; 85 of the 287 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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#T2Polkton
Anson County · 1,722 peopleJuly high·January low 32°·59 days of 90°+ a year
#T2Rockingham
Richmond County · 8,815 peopleJuly high·January low 32°·70 days of 90°+ a year
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July high, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 267 towns here).
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Questions people ask
Which North Carolina town has the hottest summers?
Laurinburg (Scotland County): July afternoons average a high of 91°. Polkton (91°) and Rockingham (91°) 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 (287 in North Carolina): 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 North Carolina page.
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