#1Darby Township
Delaware County · 9,206 peopleJanuary low·July high 88°·77 freezing nights a year
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Towns with the mildest winters in Pennsylvania
Darby Township has the mildest winters of Pennsylvania’s 914 towns of 2,500+: January nights average a low of 26° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 21°; none of the 914 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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#2Chester
Delaware County · 33,996 peopleJanuary low·July high 88°·64 freezing nights a year
Ridley Township
Delaware County · 30,956 peopleJanuary low·July high 87°·77 freezing nights a year
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January low, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 900 towns here).
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Which Pennsylvania town has the mildest winters?
Darby Township (Delaware County): January nights average a low of 26°. Chester (26°) and Ridley Township (26°) 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 (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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