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