#1Racine
Racine County · 77,908 peopleJanuary low·July high 80°·119 freezing nights a year
Racine, #1 on this list · Photo: Racine2020 · CC BY-SA 4.0Wisconsin rankings · Climate
Towns with the mildest winters in Wisconsin
Racine has the mildest winters of Wisconsin’s 369 towns of 2,500+: January nights average a low of 16° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 10°; none of the 369 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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#T2Cudahy
Milwaukee County · 17,655 peopleJanuary low·July high 80°·123 freezing nights a year
#T2South Milwaukee
Milwaukee County · 20,191 peopleJanuary low·July high 80°·123 freezing nights a year
All 369 towns
January low, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 334 towns here).
369 towns ranked. Not here? See why a town may be missing.
#TownJanuary lowNights ≤32°July high
Quick answers
Questions people ask
Which Wisconsin town has the mildest winters?
Racine (Racine County): January nights average a low of 16°. Cudahy (16°) and South Milwaukee (16°) 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 (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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