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Anchorage, AK · the CityFunIndex

Weather extremes in Anchorage

Anchorage ranks T#63 of 134 US cities for mild weather, with a mildness score of 53 — Fun. That puts it in the 54th percentile nationally and #1 of 1 in Alaska.

mildness score
53
Fun
National rank
T#63 of 134
In Alaska
#1 of 1
Percentile
54th

The typical city scores 50 for mild weather; Anchorage sits 3 points above the median.

How weather extremes is measured

Punishing heat, cold and storm extremes.

The mildness score is the flip side of our weather extremes measure — 100 minus the raw weather extremes score — so a city with less of it scores higher.

Data sources: NOAA Storm Events and climate-extremes data.

Full methodology → Glossary The raw measurement is part of the Data plan →

Ranked around Anchorage

  1. #61 New Orleans, LA 55
  2. #62 Burlington, VT 54
  3. T#63 Anchorage, AK — this page 53
  4. #65 Corpus Christi, TX 52
  5. #66 Boise, ID 51

See the full leaderboard — Cities with the mildest weather →

Top US cities for mild weather

  1. #1 Seattle, WA 100
  2. #2 San Francisco, CA 99
  3. T#3 Key West, FL 98
  4. T#3 Telluride, CO 98
  5. #5 Portland, OR 97

More about Anchorage

Anchorage scores 36 overall (Some Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: