Hottest US States by 1991-2020 Average Temperatures
Explore states like Alabama and Florida with average annual temps over 63°F, drawing from NOAA data on 50 states and 15,492 stations to aggregate temp, precip, and snow metrics.
Research
Original data research published by PlainClimate. Every page derives at least one statistic from our own database, cites primary sources inline, and documents its methodology and limits.
Research at a glance
PlainClimate's research maps 1991–2020 NOAA normals across 6,861 U.S. locations, pairing state-level temperature comparisons with an elevation analysis built from 6 location bands.
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- NOAA-normalized U.S. locations
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Temperature by Elevation Across 6,861 U.S. Locations
Analyze how primary-station elevation relates to annual temperature across the full 6,861-location NOAA-normalized dataset.
Open data: plainclimate-city-normals.csv (NOAA 1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals · public domain).
Every figure on PlainClimate is rendered directly from NOAA 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals data, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.