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Providence, RI · the CityFunIndex

Weather extremes in Providence

Providence ranks #45 of 134 US cities for mild weather, with a mildness score of 67 — Fun. That puts it in the 67th percentile nationally and #1 of 1 in Rhode Island.

mildness score
67
Fun
National rank
#45 of 134
In Rhode Island
#1 of 1
Percentile
67th

The typical city scores 50 for mild weather; Providence sits 17 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 Providence

  1. T#43 Hilton Head Island, SC 68
  2. T#43 Washington, DC 68
  3. #45 Providence, RI — this page 67
  4. #46 Buffalo, NY 66
  5. T#47 Baton Rouge, LA 65

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 Providence

Providence scores 78 overall (Very Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: