#1Presidio
Presidio County · 2,909 peopleJuly high·January low 35°·189 days of 90°+ a year
Presidio, #1 on this list · Fort Leaton · Photo: Carol M. Highsmith · Public domainTexas rankings · Climate
Towns with the hottest summers in Texas
Presidio has the hottest summers of Texas’ 632 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 101° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 95°; 623 of the 632 average 90° or more.
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
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Escobares
Starr County · 2,585 peopleJuly high·January low 48°·187 days of 90°+ a year
Rio Bravo
Webb County · 4,523 peopleJuly high·January low 46°·178 days of 90°+ a year
All 632 towns
July high, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 618 towns here).
632 towns ranked. Not here? See why a town may be missing.
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Questions people ask
Which Texas town has the hottest summers?
Presidio (Presidio County): July afternoons average a high of 101°. Escobares (100°) and Rio Bravo (100°) follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By the average July high (the warmest month’s afternoons), 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 (632 in Texas): 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 Texas page.
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