#1Santa Teresa
unincorporated, Doña Ana County · 6,041 peopleJanuary low·July high 95°·65 freezing nights a year
Santa Teresa, #1 on this list · Photo: B575 · CC BY-SA 3.0New Mexico rankings · Climate
Towns with the mildest winters in New Mexico
Santa Teresa has the mildest winters of New Mexico’s 72 towns of 2,500+: January nights average a low of 32° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 21°; 2 of the 72 stay above freezing.
The average January low. 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
#132°
#2Sunland Park
Doña Ana County · 18,268 peopleJanuary low·July high 96°·65 freezing nights a year
#3Anthony
Doña Ana County · 8,900 peopleJanuary low·July high 96°·53 freezing nights a year
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January low, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 23 towns here).
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Which New Mexico town has the mildest winters?
Santa Teresa (unincorporated, Doña Ana County): January nights average a low of 32°. Sunland Park (32°) and Anthony (31°) follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By the average January low (the coldest month’s nights), 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 (72 in New Mexico): 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 New Mexico page.
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