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Charleston, WV · the CityFunIndex

Weather extremes in Charleston

Charleston ranks #94 of 134 US cities for mild weather, with a mildness score of 30 — Some Fun. That puts it in the 31st percentile nationally and #1 of 1 in West Virginia.

mildness score
30
Some Fun
National rank
#94 of 134
In West Virginia
#1 of 1
Percentile
31st

The typical city scores 50 for mild weather; Charleston sits 20 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. T#91 Manchester, NH 32
  2. #93 Louisville, KY 31
  3. #94 Charleston, WV — this page 30
  4. T#95 Boulder, CO 29
  5. T#95 Des Moines, IA 29

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 61 overall (Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: