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Weather extremes in Minneapolis

Minneapolis ranks T#99 of 134 US cities for mild weather, with a mildness score of 26 — Quiet. That puts it in the 27th percentile nationally and #2 of 2 in Minnesota.

mildness score
26
Quiet
National rank
T#99 of 134
In Minnesota
#2 of 2
Percentile
27th

The typical city scores 50 for mild weather; Minneapolis sits 24 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 Minneapolis

  1. T#97 Aurora, CO 27
  2. T#97 Lincoln, NE 27
  3. T#99 Minneapolis, MN — this page 26
  4. #101 Plano, TX 25
  5. #102 Nashville, TN 24

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 Minneapolis

Minneapolis scores 84 overall (Very Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: