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Richmond, VA · the CityFunIndex

Weather extremes in Richmond

Richmond ranks #81 of 134 US cities for mild weather, with a mildness score of 40 — Some Fun. That puts it in the 40th percentile nationally and #4 of 4 in Virginia.

mildness score
40
Some Fun
National rank
#81 of 134
In Virginia
#4 of 4
Percentile
40th

The typical city scores 50 for mild weather; Richmond sits 10 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 Richmond

  1. T#78 Spokane, WA 42
  2. #80 Little Rock, AR 41
  3. #81 Richmond, VA — this page 40
  4. #82 Birmingham, AL 39
  5. #83 Santa Fe, NM 38

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 Richmond

Richmond scores 91 overall (Exceptional) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: