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Weather extremes in New Orleans

New Orleans ranks #61 of 134 US cities for mild weather, with a mildness score of 55 — Fun. That puts it in the 55th percentile nationally and #2 of 2 in Louisiana.

mildness score
55
Fun
National rank
#61 of 134
In Louisiana
#2 of 2
Percentile
55th

The typical city scores 50 for mild weather; New Orleans sits 5 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 New Orleans

  1. T#57 Savannah, GA 57
  2. #60 Saint Paul, MN 56
  3. #61 New Orleans, LA — this page 55
  4. #62 Burlington, VT 54
  5. T#63 Anchorage, AK 53

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 New Orleans

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