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Cities with the mildest weather
Every city in the CityFunIndex, ranked by how mild its weather is — from the gentlest conditions to the harshest. The mildness score flips our weather-extremes measure, so a city of easy seasons leads.
- Cities ranked
- 134
- Top score
- 100
- Average
- 51
Pillar scores are national percentile ranks on a saturation curve, so the leader of every category lands near the same ceiling — the ranks beneath are still distinct. See how scoring works →
Seattle (100) leads, ahead of San Francisco (99) and Key West (98). Colorado Springs anchors the bottom at 7 — a 93-point gap.
Regional read 5 of the top 10 here are from California — the most of any single state.
All 134 cities, coloured by mildness score band. The top-ranked cities draw larger.
- Quiet
- Some Fun
- Fun
- Very Fun
- Exceptional
Score spread across all 134 cities
- Quiet 40
- Some Fun 26
- Fun 27
- Very Fun 19
- Exceptional 22
Ranked 5–134
- #5 97 Portland, OR
- #6 96 Santa Barbara, CA
- T#7 95 Honolulu, HI
- T#7 95 Napa, CA
- #9 94 San Jose, CA
- #10 93 Oakland, CA
- T#11 92 Stockton, CA
- T#11 92 Fremont, CA
- #13 91 St. Petersburg, FL
- #14 90 Baltimore, MD
- T#15 89 New York, NY
- T#15 89 Tampa, FL
- #17 88 Orlando, FL
- #18 87 Chesapeake, VA
- T#19 86 Miami, FL
- T#19 86 Hialeah, FL
- T#21 85 Montgomery, AL
- T#21 85 Norfolk, VA
- T#23 83 Jersey City, NJ
- T#23 83 Newark, NJ
- #25 82 Irvine, CA
- #26 81 Santa Ana, CA
- T#27 80 Anaheim, CA
- T#27 80 Charlotte, NC
- #29 79 Bridgeport, CT
- #30 78 Long Beach, CA
- T#31 77 Asheville, NC
- T#31 77 Los Angeles, CA
- #33 76 Durham, NC
- #34 75 Sacramento, CA
- T#35 74 Boston, MA
- T#35 74 Toledo, OH
- #37 73 Lexington, KY
- #38 72 Fresno, CA
- T#39 71 Virginia Beach, VA
- T#39 71 Santa Clarita, CA
- #41 70 Houston, TX
- #42 69 Cleveland, OH
- T#43 68 Washington, DC
- T#43 68 Hilton Head Island, SC
- #45 67 Providence, RI
- #46 66 Buffalo, NY
- T#47 65 San Diego, CA
- T#47 65 Baton Rouge, LA
- #49 64 Fort Wayne, IN
- #50 63 Winston-Salem, NC
- #51 62 Riverside, CA
- T#52 61 Atlanta, GA
- T#52 61 Gatlinburg, TN
- #54 60 St. Louis, MO
- T#55 59 Park City, UT
- T#55 59 Wilmington, DE
- T#57 57 Cincinnati, OH
- T#57 57 Portland, ME
- T#57 57 Savannah, GA
- #60 56 Saint Paul, MN
- #61 55 New Orleans, LA
- #62 54 Burlington, VT
- T#63 53 Jacksonville, FL
- T#63 53 Anchorage, AK
- #65 52 Corpus Christi, TX
- #66 51 Boise, ID
- T#67 50 Detroit, MI
- T#67 50 Stowe, VT
- #69 49 Greensboro, NC
- #70 48 Philadelphia, PA
- T#71 47 Bakersfield, CA
- T#71 47 Jackson, WY
- #73 46 Milwaukee, WI
- #74 45 Bend, OR
- T#75 44 Austin, TX
- T#75 44 Charleston, SC
- T#75 44 El Paso, TX
- T#78 42 Hartford, CT
- T#78 42 Spokane, WA
- #80 41 Little Rock, AR
- #81 40 Richmond, VA
- #82 39 Birmingham, AL
- #83 38 Santa Fe, NM
- T#84 37 Aspen, CO
- T#84 37 Raleigh, NC
- #86 36 Denver, CO
- T#87 35 Jackson, MS
- T#87 35 Columbus, OH
- #89 34 Indianapolis, IN
- #90 33 Memphis, TN
- T#91 32 Laredo, TX
- T#91 32 Manchester, NH
- #93 31 Louisville, KY
- #94 30 Charleston, WV
- T#95 29 Boulder, CO
- T#95 29 Des Moines, IA
- T#97 27 Aurora, CO
- T#97 27 Lincoln, NE
- T#99 26 Reno, NV
- T#99 26 Minneapolis, MN
- #101 25 Plano, TX
- #102 24 Nashville, TN
- T#103 23 Dallas, TX
- T#103 23 Sedona, AZ
- T#105 21 Garland, TX
- T#105 21 Las Vegas, NV
- T#107 20 San Antonio, TX
- T#107 20 Henderson, NV
- #109 19 Sioux Falls, SD
- #110 18 North Las Vegas, NV
- T#111 17 Irving, TX
- T#111 17 Arlington, TX
- T#113 16 Fort Worth, TX
- T#113 16 Pittsburgh, PA
- #115 15 Albuquerque, NM
- T#116 14 Fargo, ND
- T#116 14 Oklahoma City, OK
- T#118 13 Kansas City, MO
- T#118 13 Omaha, NE
- T#120 12 Tucson, AZ
- T#120 12 Chicago, IL
- T#120 12 Lubbock, TX
- T#120 12 Tulsa, OK
- #124 11 Madison, WI
- T#125 10 Billings, MT
- T#125 10 Wichita, KS
- T#125 10 Bismarck, ND
- T#128 9 Glendale, AZ
- T#128 9 Scottsdale, AZ
- T#128 9 Mesa, AZ
- T#131 8 Phoenix, AZ
- T#131 8 Gilbert, AZ
- T#131 8 Chandler, AZ
- #134 7 Colorado Springs, CO
The mildness score flips a city's weather extremes score — 100 minus it — drawn from NOAA Storm Events and climate-extremes data.