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Weather extremes in San Jose

San Jose ranks #9 of 134 US cities for mild weather, with a mildness score of 94 — Exceptional. That puts it in the 94th percentile nationally and #4 of 18 in California.

mildness score
94
Exceptional
National rank
#9 of 134
In California
#4 of 18
Percentile
94th

The typical city scores 50 for mild weather; San Jose sits 44 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 Jose

  1. T#7 Honolulu, HI 95
  2. T#7 Napa, CA 95
  3. #9 San Jose, CA — this page 94
  4. #10 Oakland, CA 93
  5. T#11 Fremont, CA 92

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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 San Jose

San Jose scores 62 overall (Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: