#T1Arlington
Bennington County · 2,404 peopleJuly high·January low 10°·3 days of 90°+ a year
Arlington, #1 on this list · Photo: gplefka · Public domainVermont rankings · Climate
Towns with the coolest summers in Vermont
Arlington (tied with 1 more) has the coolest summers of Vermont’s 84 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 76° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 80°; 30 of the 84 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
#T176°
#T1Barton
Orleans County · 2,732 peopleJuly high·January low 5°·3 days of 90°+ a year
#3Underhill
Chittenden County · 3,071 peopleJuly high·January low 8°·0 days of 90°+ a year
All 84 towns
July high, lowest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 55 towns here).
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Questions people ask
Which Vermont town has the coolest summers?
Arlington (Bennington County): July afternoons average a high of 76°. Barton (76°) and Underhill (77°) 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 (84 in Vermont): 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 Vermont page.
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