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Weather extremes in New York

New York ranks T#15 of 134 US cities for mild weather, with a mildness score of 89 — Exceptional. That puts it in the 90th percentile nationally and #1 of 2 in New York.

mildness score
89
Exceptional
National rank
T#15 of 134
In New York
#1 of 2
Percentile
90th

The typical city scores 50 for mild weather; New York sits 39 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 York

  1. #13 St. Petersburg, FL 91
  2. #14 Baltimore, MD 90
  3. T#15 New York, NY — this page 89
  4. #17 Orlando, FL 88
  5. #18 Chesapeake, VA 87

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 York

New York scores 54 overall (Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: