#1Piermont
Rockland County · 2,607 peopleJuly high·January low 22°·19 days of 90°+ a year
Piermont, #1 on this list · Photo: Jim.henderson · Public domainNew York rankings · Climate
Towns with the hottest summers in New York
Piermont has the hottest summers of New York’s 875 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 86° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 81°; none of the 875 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
#186°
#T2Haverstraw
Rockland County · 12,791 peopleJuly high·January low 21°·10 days of 90°+ a year
#T2Nyack
Rockland County · 7,511 peopleJuly high·January low 22°·19 days of 90°+ a year
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July high, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 863 towns here).
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Questions people ask
Which New York town has the hottest summers?
Piermont (Rockland County): July afternoons average a high of 86°. Haverstraw (86°) and Nyack (86°) 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 (875 in New York): 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 York page.
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