#1Adams Township
Cambria County · 5,558 peopleJuly high·January low 16°·0 days of 90°+ a year
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Towns with the coolest summers in Pennsylvania
Adams Township has the coolest summers of Pennsylvania’s 914 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 77° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 84°; 40 of the 914 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
#177°
#2Coolbaugh Township
Monroe County · 20,681 peopleJuly high·January low 15°·1 days of 90°+ a year
#T3Cresson Township
Cambria County · 2,809 peopleJuly high·January low 16°·2 days of 90°+ a year
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Which Pennsylvania town has the coolest summers?
Adams Township (Cambria County): July afternoons average a high of 77°. Coolbaugh Township (77°) and Cresson Township (77°) 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 (914 in Pennsylvania): 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 Pennsylvania page.
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