#T1Nyssa
Malheur County · 3,257 peopleJuly high·January low 23°·56 days of 90°+ a year
Nyssa, #1 on this list · Photo: Ian Poellet · CC BY-SA 3.0Oregon rankings · Climate
Towns with the hottest summers in Oregon
Nyssa (tied with 1 more) has the hottest summers of Oregon’s 135 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 93° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 82°; 15 of the 135 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
#T193°
#T1Ontario
Malheur County · 11,957 peopleJuly high·January low 23°·54 days of 90°+ a year
#3Central Point
Jackson County · 19,139 peopleJuly high·January low 32°·61 days of 90°+ a year
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July high, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 83 towns here).
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Questions people ask
Which Oregon town has the hottest summers?
Nyssa (Malheur County): July afternoons average a high of 93°. Ontario (93°) and Central Point (92°) 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 (135 in Oregon): 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 Oregon page.
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