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Lexington, KY · the CityFunIndex

Weather extremes in Lexington

Lexington ranks #37 of 134 US cities for mild weather, with a mildness score of 73 — Very Fun. That puts it in the 73rd percentile nationally and #1 of 2 in Kentucky.

mildness score
73
Very Fun
National rank
#37 of 134
In Kentucky
#1 of 2
Percentile
73rd

The typical city scores 50 for mild weather; Lexington sits 23 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 Lexington

  1. T#35 Boston, MA 74
  2. T#35 Toledo, OH 74
  3. #37 Lexington, KY — this page 73
  4. #38 Fresno, CA 72
  5. T#39 Santa Clarita, CA 71

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 Lexington

Lexington scores 69 overall (Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: