If you are looking for the latest possible sunset on the first day of summer, you should head out to Porter or Lewiston, and enjoy the setting sun over Lake Erie, when the sun will be setting around 9 PM. In contrast in Albany, the sun sets around 8:36 PM on the first day of summer.
The summer of 1959 was the hottest summer ever in the history of Albany. There were 996 cooling degree days during the summer of 1959, compared to the normal of 550 cooling degree days. Cooling degrees are the number of degrees an air conditioning must lower the air temperature in a month to make the indoors a comfortable 65 degrees.
May 1959 – 150
May Normal – 15
June 1959 – 293
June Normal – 97
July 1959 – 293
July Normal – 219
August 1959 – 281
August Normal – 183
September 1959 – 171
September Normal – 33
October 1959 – 12
October Normal – 3
If you aren’t convinced that Albany was hot during the summer 1959, consider the fact that the average high for September 1959 was 82 degrees in Albany. That’s ten degrees above the September average of 72 degrees most years.
This is a list of the 50 coolest municipalities to go during the month of June, according to the NCEI Gridded Normals.
| County | Municipality | Average High |
| Essex | North Elba town | 68.5 |
| Essex | Keene town | 69.5 |
| Essex | St. Armand town | 70.4 |
| Ulster | Hardenburgh town | 70.5 |
| Lewis | Montague town | 70.6 |
| Essex | Newcomb town | 70.6 |
| Hamilton | Morehouse town | 70.8 |
| Hamilton | Inlet town | 71.0 |
| Hamilton | Arietta town | 71.2 |
| Franklin | Harrietstown town | 71.3 |
| Essex | Jay town | 71.4 |
| Hamilton | Indian Lake town | 71.4 |
| Clinton | Ellenburg town | 71.6 |
| Clinton | Dannemora town | 71.6 |
| Lewis | Harrisburg town | 71.7 |
| Lewis | Pinckney town | 71.7 |
| Herkimer | Webb town | 71.7 |
| Lewis | West Turin town | 71.7 |
| Hamilton | Lake Pleasant town | 71.8 |
| Hamilton | Long Lake town | 71.8 |
| Jefferson | Worth town | 71.9 |
| Franklin | Bellmont town | 71.9 |
| Franklin | Franklin town | 71.9 |
| Herkimer | Ohio town | 72.0 |
| Lewis | Osceola town | 72.0 |
| Lewis | Martinsburg town | 72.1 |
| Delaware | Middletown town | 72.2 |
| Franklin | Duane town | 72.2 |
| Essex | Wilmington town | 72.4 |
| Warren | Johnsburg town | 72.5 |
| Franklin | Brighton town | 72.6 |
| Greene | Jewett town | 72.7 |
| Clinton | Saranac town | 72.8 |
| Essex | North Hudson town | 72.8 |
| Lewis | Greig town | 72.8 |
| Essex | Minerva town | 72.8 |
| Jefferson | Rutland town | 72.8 |
| Franklin | Tupper Lake town | 72.8 |
| Lewis | Watson town | 72.9 |
| Greene | Halcott town | 72.9 |
| Franklin | Santa Clara town | 72.9 |
| Hamilton | Wells town | 72.9 |
| St. Lawrence | Piercefield town | 73.0 |
| Oswego | Redfield town | 73.0 |
| Lewis | Turin town | 73.0 |
| Lewis | Lewis town | 73.0 |
| Franklin | Chateaugay town | 73.0 |
| Jefferson | Rodman town | 73.1 |
| Clinton | Clinton town | 73.1 |
| Franklin | Waverly town | 73.1 |
