#1Travelers Rest
Greenville County · 9,135 peopleJuly high·January low 32°·52 days of 90°+ a year
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Towns with the coolest summers in South Carolina
Travelers Rest has the coolest summers of South Carolina’s 163 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 88° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 91°; none of the 163 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
#188°
#2North Myrtle Beach
Horry County · 21,346 peopleJuly high·January low 37°·21 days of 90°+ a year
Surfside Beach
Horry County · 4,392 peopleJuly high·January low 37°·39 days of 90°+ a year
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July high, lowest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 155 towns here).
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Which South Carolina town has the coolest summers?
Travelers Rest (Greenville County): July afternoons average a high of 88°. North Myrtle Beach (88°) and Surfside Beach (88°) 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 (163 in South Carolina): 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 South Carolina page.
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