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Weather extremes in Charleston

Charleston ranks T#75 of 134 US cities for mild weather, with a mildness score of 44 — Some Fun. That puts it in the 45th percentile nationally and #2 of 2 in South Carolina.

mildness score
44
Some Fun
National rank
T#75 of 134
In South Carolina
#2 of 2
Percentile
45th

The typical city scores 50 for mild weather; Charleston sits 6 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 Charleston

  1. #73 Milwaukee, WI 46
  2. #74 Bend, OR 45
  3. T#75 Charleston, SC — this page 44
  4. T#78 Hartford, CT 42
  5. T#78 Spokane, WA 42

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 Charleston

Charleston scores 87 overall (Exceptional) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: