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Weather extremes in Baton Rouge

Baton Rouge ranks T#47 of 134 US cities for mild weather, with a mildness score of 65 — Fun. That puts it in the 66th percentile nationally and #1 of 2 in Louisiana.

mildness score
65
Fun
National rank
T#47 of 134
In Louisiana
#1 of 2
Percentile
66th

The typical city scores 50 for mild weather; Baton Rouge sits 15 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 Baton Rouge

  1. #45 Providence, RI 67
  2. #46 Buffalo, NY 66
  3. T#47 Baton Rouge, LA — this page 65
  4. #49 Fort Wayne, IN 64
  5. #50 Winston-Salem, NC 63

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 Baton Rouge

Baton Rouge scores 28 overall (Quiet) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: