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Durham, NC · the CityFunIndex

Weather extremes in Durham

Durham ranks #33 of 134 US cities for mild weather, with a mildness score of 76 — Very Fun. That puts it in the 76th percentile nationally and #3 of 6 in North Carolina.

mildness score
76
Very Fun
National rank
#33 of 134
In North Carolina
#3 of 6
Percentile
76th

The typical city scores 50 for mild weather; Durham sits 26 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 Durham

  1. T#31 Asheville, NC 77
  2. T#31 Los Angeles, CA 77
  3. #33 Durham, NC — this page 76
  4. #34 Sacramento, CA 75
  5. T#35 Boston, MA 74

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 Durham

Durham scores 64 overall (Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: