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Raleigh, NC · the CityFunIndex

Weather extremes in Raleigh

Raleigh ranks T#84 of 134 US cities for mild weather, with a mildness score of 37 — Some Fun. That puts it in the 38th percentile nationally and #6 of 6 in North Carolina.

mildness score
37
Some Fun
National rank
T#84 of 134
In North Carolina
#6 of 6
Percentile
38th

The typical city scores 50 for mild weather; Raleigh sits 13 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 Raleigh

  1. #82 Birmingham, AL 39
  2. #83 Santa Fe, NM 38
  3. T#84 Raleigh, NC — this page 37
  4. #86 Denver, CO 36
  5. T#87 Columbus, OH 35

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 Raleigh

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