#1Wheatland
Platte County · 3,516 peopleJanuary low·July high 88°·153 freezing nights a year
Wheatland, #1 on this list · Platte County Courthouse · Photo: Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 4.0Wyoming rankings · Climate
Towns with the mildest winters in Wyoming
Wheatland has the mildest winters of Wyoming’s 31 towns of 2,500+: January nights average a low of 16° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 13°; none of the 31 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
#116°
Ranchettes
unincorporated, Laramie County · 5,949 peopleJanuary low·July high 85°·170 freezing nights a year
#T2South Greeley
unincorporated, Laramie County · 4,631 peopleJanuary low·July high 85°·170 freezing nights a year
All 31 towns
January low, highest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 10 towns here).
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Questions people ask
Which Wyoming town has the mildest winters?
Wheatland (Platte County): January nights average a low of 16°. Ranchettes (16°) and South Greeley (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 (31 in Wyoming): 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 Wyoming page.
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