Laguna Vista
Cameron County · 3,780 peopleJanuary low·July high 91°·1 freezing nights a year
Texas rankings · Climate
Towns with the mildest winters in Texas
Laguna Vista (tied with 1 more) has the mildest winters of Texas’ 632 towns of 2,500+: January nights average a low of 53° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 37°; 558 of the 632 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
53°
South Padre Island
Cameron County · 2,086 peopleJanuary low·July high 91°·0 freezing nights a year
#3Port Isabel
Cameron County · 5,302 peopleJanuary low·July high 92°·1 freezing nights a year
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January low, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 564 towns here).
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Which Texas town has the mildest winters?
Laguna Vista (Cameron County): January nights average a low of 53°. South Padre Island (53°) and Port Isabel (52°) 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 (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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