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Asheville, NC · the CityFunIndex

Weather extremes in Asheville

Asheville ranks T#31 of 134 US cities for mild weather, with a mildness score of 77 — Very Fun. That puts it in the 78th percentile nationally and #2 of 6 in North Carolina.

mildness score
77
Very Fun
National rank
T#31 of 134
In North Carolina
#2 of 6
Percentile
78th

The typical city scores 50 for mild weather; Asheville sits 27 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 Asheville

  1. #29 Bridgeport, CT 79
  2. #30 Long Beach, CA 78
  3. T#31 Asheville, NC — this page 77
  4. #33 Durham, NC 76
  5. #34 Sacramento, CA 75

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 Asheville

Asheville scores 85 overall (Exceptional) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: