#1Ocean Shores
Grays Harbor County · 7,892 peopleJuly high·January low 38°·0 days of 90°+ a year
Ocean Shores, #1 on this list · Photo: Michael Barratt · Public domainWashington rankings · Climate
Towns with the coolest summers in Washington
Ocean Shores has the coolest summers of Washington’s 265 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 66° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 77°; 186 of the 265 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
#166°
#2Hoquiam
Grays Harbor County · 8,710 peopleJuly high·January low 37°·0 days of 90°+ a year
#3Aberdeen
Grays Harbor County · 17,088 peopleJuly high·January low 37°·2 days of 90°+ a year
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July high, lowest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 209 towns here).
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Which Washington town has the coolest summers?
Ocean Shores (Grays Harbor County): July afternoons average a high of 66°. Hoquiam (68°) and Aberdeen (68°) 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 (265 in Washington): 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 Washington page.
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