#1Memphis
Shelby County · 609,647 peopleJanuary low·July high 91°·44 freezing nights a year
Memphis, #1 on this list · Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Tennessee rankings · Climate
Towns with the mildest winters in Tennessee
Memphis has the mildest winters of Tennessee’s 184 towns of 2,500+: January nights average a low of 32° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 29°; 1 of the 184 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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#T2Bartlett
Shelby County · 56,416 peopleJanuary low·July high 91°·68 freezing nights a year
#T2Germantown
Shelby County · 40,001 peopleJanuary low·July high 91°·68 freezing nights a year
All 184 towns
January low, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 167 towns here).
184 towns ranked. Not here? See why a town may be missing.
#TownJanuary lowNights ≤32°July high
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Questions people ask
Which Tennessee town has the mildest winters?
Memphis (Shelby County): January nights average a low of 32°. Bartlett (32°) and Germantown (32°) 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 (184 in Tennessee): 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 Tennessee page.
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