San Francisco, CA · the CityFunIndex
Weather extremes in San Francisco
San Francisco ranks #2 of 134 US cities for mild weather, with a mildness score of 99 — Exceptional. That puts it in the 99th percentile nationally and #1 of 18 in California.
- mildness score
- 99
- Exceptional
- National rank
- #2 of 134
- In California
- #1 of 18
- Percentile
- 99th
The typical city scores 50 for mild weather; San Francisco sits 49 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 San Francisco
- #1 Seattle, WA 100
- #2 San Francisco, CA — this page 99
- T#3 Key West, FL 98
- T#3 Telluride, CO 98
See the full leaderboard — Cities with the mildest weather →
Top US cities for mild weather
- #1 Seattle, WA 100
- #2 San Francisco, CA — this page 99
- T#3 Key West, FL 98
- T#3 Telluride, CO 98
- #5 Portland, OR 97
More about San Francisco
San Francisco scores 96 overall (Exceptional) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: