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Portland, ME · the CityFunIndex

Weather extremes in Portland

Portland ranks T#57 of 134 US cities for mild weather, with a mildness score of 57 — Fun. That puts it in the 58th percentile nationally and #1 of 1 in Maine.

mildness score
57
Fun
National rank
T#57 of 134
In Maine
#1 of 1
Percentile
58th

The typical city scores 50 for mild weather; Portland sits 7 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 Portland

  1. T#55 Park City, UT 59
  2. T#55 Wilmington, DE 59
  3. T#57 Portland, ME — this page 57
  4. #60 Saint Paul, MN 56
  5. #61 New Orleans, LA 55

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 Portland

Portland scores 100 overall (Exceptional) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: