#1Williston
Williams County · 29,522 peopleJuly high·January low 2°·21 days of 90°+ a year
Williston, #1 on this list · Photo: Andrew Filer from Seattle (ex-Minneapolis) · CC BY-SA 2.0North Dakota rankings · Climate
Towns with the hottest summers in North Dakota
Williston has the hottest summers of North Dakota’s 24 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 84° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 82°; none of the 24 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
#184°
Watford City
McKenzie County · 6,378 peopleJuly high·January low 4°·22 days of 90°+ a year
#T3Lincoln
Burleigh County · 4,493 peopleJuly high·January low 2°·20 days of 90°+ a year
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July high, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 11 towns here).
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Which North Dakota town has the hottest summers?
Williston (Williams County): July afternoons average a high of 84°. Watford City (84°) and Lincoln (84°) 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 (24 in North Dakota): 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 Dakota page.
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