#1Superior
Douglas County · 26,397 peopleJuly high·January low 6°·3 days of 90°+ a year
Superior, #1 on this list · Photo: Nfarmakes · CC BY-SA 4.0Wisconsin rankings · Climate
Towns with the coolest summers in Wisconsin
Superior has the coolest summers of Wisconsin’s 369 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 76° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 82°; 51 of the 369 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
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#2Sevastopol
Door County · 2,835 peopleJuly high·January low 13°·2 days of 90°+ a year
Arbor Vitae
Vilas County · 3,503 peopleJuly high·January low 2°·2 days of 90°+ a year
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July high, lowest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 357 towns here).
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Questions people ask
Which Wisconsin town has the coolest summers?
Superior (Douglas County): July afternoons average a high of 76°. Sevastopol (77°) and Arbor Vitae (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 (369 in Wisconsin): 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 Wisconsin page.
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