#1Williamson
Mingo County · 2,753 peopleJanuary low·July high 88°·95 freezing nights a year
Williamson, #1 on this list · Photo: FloNight (Sydney Poore) and Russell Poore · CC BY-SA 4.0West Virginia rankings · Climate
Towns with the mildest winters in West Virginia
Williamson has the mildest winters of West Virginia’s 59 towns of 2,500+: January nights average a low of 26° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 23°; none of the 59 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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#2Madison
Boone County · 2,678 peopleJanuary low·July high 86°·112 freezing nights a year
#3South Charleston
Kanawha County · 13,072 peopleJanuary low·July high 87°·116 freezing nights a year
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January low, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 44 towns here).
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Which West Virginia town has the mildest winters?
Williamson (Mingo County): January nights average a low of 26°. Madison (26°) and South Charleston (25°) 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 (59 in West Virginia): 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 West Virginia page.
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