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Weather extremes in Houston

Houston ranks #41 of 134 US cities for mild weather, with a mildness score of 70 — Very Fun. That puts it in the 70th percentile nationally and #1 of 13 in Texas.

mildness score
70
Very Fun
National rank
#41 of 134
In Texas
#1 of 13
Percentile
70th

The typical city scores 50 for mild weather; Houston sits 20 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 Houston

  1. T#39 Santa Clarita, CA 71
  2. T#39 Virginia Beach, VA 71
  3. #41 Houston, TX — this page 70
  4. #42 Cleveland, OH 69
  5. T#43 Hilton Head Island, SC 68

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 Houston

Houston scores 41 overall (Some Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: