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Weather extremes in Boston

Boston ranks T#35 of 134 US cities for mild weather, with a mildness score of 74 — Very Fun. That puts it in the 75th percentile nationally and #1 of 1 in Massachusetts.

mildness score
74
Very Fun
National rank
T#35 of 134
In Massachusetts
#1 of 1
Percentile
75th

The typical city scores 50 for mild weather; Boston sits 24 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 Boston

  1. #33 Durham, NC 76
  2. #34 Sacramento, CA 75
  3. T#35 Boston, MA — this page 74
  4. #37 Lexington, KY 73
  5. #38 Fresno, CA 72

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 Boston

Boston scores 98 overall (Exceptional) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: