#T1Charlestown
Washington County · 8,002 peopleJuly high·January low 24°·3 days of 90°+ a year
Charlestown, #1 on this list · Photo: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ, M.D. · CC BY-SA 4.0Rhode Island rankings · Climate
Towns with the coolest summers in Rhode Island
Charlestown (tied with 2 more) has the coolest summers of Rhode Island’s 38 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 80° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 82°; none of the 38 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
#T180°
#T1Narragansett
Washington County · 14,291 peopleJuly high·January low 24°·9 days of 90°+ a year
#T1South Kingstown
Washington County · 32,009 peopleJuly high·January low 24°·9 days of 90°+ a year
All 38 towns
July high, lowest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 25 towns here).
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Questions people ask
Which Rhode Island town has the coolest summers?
Charlestown (Washington County): July afternoons average a high of 80°. Narragansett (80°) and South Kingstown (80°) 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 (38 in Rhode Island): 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 Rhode Island page.
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