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Weather extremes in Madison

Madison ranks #124 of 134 US cities for mild weather, with a mildness score of 11 — Quiet. That puts it in the 8th percentile nationally and #2 of 2 in Wisconsin.

mildness score
11
Quiet
National rank
#124 of 134
In Wisconsin
#2 of 2
Percentile
8th

The typical city scores 50 for mild weather; Madison sits 39 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 Madison

  1. T#120 Tucson, AZ 12
  2. T#120 Tulsa, OK 12
  3. #124 Madison, WI — this page 11
  4. T#125 Billings, MT 10
  5. T#125 Bismarck, ND 10

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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 Madison

Madison scores 97 overall (Exceptional) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: