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Des Moines, IA · the CityFunIndex

Weather extremes in Des Moines

Des Moines ranks T#95 of 134 US cities for mild weather, with a mildness score of 29 — Quiet. That puts it in the 30th percentile nationally and #1 of 1 in Iowa.

mildness score
29
Quiet
National rank
T#95 of 134
In Iowa
#1 of 1
Percentile
30th

The typical city scores 50 for mild weather; Des Moines sits 21 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 Des Moines

  1. #93 Louisville, KY 31
  2. #94 Charleston, WV 30
  3. T#95 Des Moines, IA — this page 29
  4. T#97 Aurora, CO 27
  5. T#97 Lincoln, NE 27

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 Des Moines

Des Moines scores 74 overall (Very Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: