#1Ocean Shores
Grays Harbor County · 7,892 peopleJanuary low·July high 66°·26 freezing nights a year
Ocean Shores, #1 on this list · Photo: Michael Barratt · Public domainWashington rankings · Climate
Towns with the mildest winters in Washington
Ocean Shores has the mildest winters of Washington’s 265 towns of 2,500+: January nights average a low of 38° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 35°; 202 of the 265 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
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#T2Aberdeen
Grays Harbor County · 17,088 peopleJanuary low·July high 68°·35 freezing nights a year
#T2Hoquiam
Grays Harbor County · 8,710 peopleJanuary low·July high 68°·26 freezing nights a year
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January low, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 241 towns here).
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Which Washington town has the mildest winters?
Ocean Shores (Grays Harbor County): January nights average a low of 38°. Aberdeen (37°) and Hoquiam (37°) 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 (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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