#1Norfolk
Norfolk city · 231,013 peopleJanuary low·July high 88°·41 freezing nights a year
Norfolk, #1 on this list · Photo: Bruce Emmerling · CC BY-SA 4.0Virginia rankings · Climate
Towns with the mildest winters in Virginia
Norfolk has the mildest winters of Virginia’s 225 towns of 2,500+: January nights average a low of 33° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 26°; 5 of the 225 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
#133°
#2Portsmouth
Portsmouth city · 96,777 peopleJanuary low·July high 88°·41 freezing nights a year
#3Hampton
Hampton city · 137,315 peopleJanuary low·July high 88°·52 freezing nights a year
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January low, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 197 towns here).
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#TownJanuary lowNights ≤32°July high
T93University of Virginia College campusunincorporated, Albemarle County · 9,065 people7788°average high
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Which Virginia town has the mildest winters?
Norfolk (Norfolk city): January nights average a low of 33°. Portsmouth (33°) and Hampton (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 (225 in Virginia): 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 Virginia page.
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