#T1Hempstead
Nassau County · 795,734 peopleJanuary low·July high 84°·89 freezing nights a year
Hempstead, #1 on this list · Photo: Joe Mabel · CC BY-SA 3.0New York rankings · Climate
Towns with the mildest winters in New York
Hempstead (tied with 1 more) has the mildest winters of New York’s 691 towns of 2,500+: January nights average a low of 27° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 16°; none of the 691 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
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#T1Long Beach
Nassau County · 34,918 peopleJanuary low·July high 84°·74 freezing nights a year
#T3New York City
Kings County · 8,584,629 peopleJanuary low·July high 85°·67 freezing nights a year
All 691 towns
January low, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 643 towns here).
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#TownJanuary lowNights ≤32°July high
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Questions people ask
Which New York town has the mildest winters?
Hempstead (Nassau County): January nights average a low of 27°. Long Beach (27°) and New York City (27°) 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 (691 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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