#1Wayne
Wayne County · 6,338 peopleJuly high·January low 11°·21 days of 90°+ a year
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Towns with the coolest summers in Nebraska
Wayne has the coolest summers of Nebraska’s 61 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 85° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 87°; none of the 61 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
#185°
#2West Point
Cuming County · 3,411 peopleJuly high·January low 12°·21 days of 90°+ a year
#3Blair
Washington County · 7,997 peopleJuly high·January low 14°·22 days of 90°+ a year
All 61 towns
July high, lowest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 42 towns here).
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Questions people ask
Which Nebraska town has the coolest summers?
Wayne (Wayne County): July afternoons average a high of 85°. West Point (85°) and Blair (85°) 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 (61 in Nebraska): 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 Nebraska page.
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