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Birmingham, AL · the CityFunIndex

Weather extremes in Birmingham

Birmingham ranks #82 of 134 US cities for mild weather, with a mildness score of 39 — Some Fun. That puts it in the 40th percentile nationally and #2 of 2 in Alabama.

mildness score
39
Some Fun
National rank
#82 of 134
In Alabama
#2 of 2
Percentile
40th

The typical city scores 50 for mild weather; Birmingham sits 11 points below 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 Birmingham

  1. #80 Little Rock, AR 41
  2. #81 Richmond, VA 40
  3. #82 Birmingham, AL — this page 39
  4. #83 Santa Fe, NM 38
  5. T#84 Aspen, CO 37

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 Birmingham

Birmingham scores 58 overall (Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: