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Weather extremes in Washington

Washington ranks T#43 of 134 US cities for mild weather, with a mildness score of 68 — Fun. That puts it in the 69th percentile nationally and #1 of 1 in District of Columbia.

mildness score
68
Fun
National rank
T#43 of 134
In District of Columbia
#1 of 1
Percentile
69th

The typical city scores 50 for mild weather; Washington sits 18 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 Washington

  1. #41 Houston, TX 70
  2. #42 Cleveland, OH 69
  3. T#43 Washington, DC — this page 68
  4. #45 Providence, RI 67
  5. #46 Buffalo, NY 66

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 Washington

Washington scores 93 overall (Exceptional) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: