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Comfortable Climate

Places with lower combined heat, cold, and humidity burdens score higher using NOAA 1991-2020 climate normals.

Scale0-100

Higher values rank better for this score.

How It's Calculated

The latest published score is normalized to a 0-100 scale. The method below explains what the score rewards, with technical source metadata available for audit.

Scoring Method

How the ranking is built

Comfortable Climate rewards places with a balanced mix of lower heat, lower cold, lower mugginess, and lower heat-index burden.

  1. 1

    The humidity-adjusted formula is 34% Low Heat, 34% Low Cold, 22% Low Mugginess, and 10% heat-index comfort.

  2. 2

    Lower heat, cold, sticky-air, and heat-index burdens all improve the final score.

  3. 3

    If the humidity-adjusted run has not been published, the annual climate run metadata on the page shows the active formula.

Technical details
Score TypeMaster Score

Read from the current master score table for this criterion.

Ranking BasisSingle Score

The top 10 below ignore your blended relocation weights and sort only by Comfortable Climate.

No source details available for this score.

What This Score Means

Comfortable Climate rewards places with a balanced mix of lower heat, lower cold, lower mugginess, and lower heat-index burden.

Statistics Feeding This Score

  • Low Heat score

    Previously published annual-normal heat score for the place.

    Source: Derived from NOAA annual/seasonal normals
  • Low Cold score

    Previously published annual-normal cold score for the place.

    Source: Derived from NOAA annual/seasonal normals
  • Low Mugginess score

    Hourly-normal sticky-air score for the place.

    Source: Derived from NOAA hourly normals
  • Heat-index comfort

    Derived from annual hours with heat index above 90F and 100F.

    Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, hourly

Source Data

Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, annual/seasonalNOAA NCEI 1991-2020 station normals matched to places using nearby stations, with distance and elevation mismatch penalties.Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, hourlyNOAA NCEI 1991-2020 hourly station normals used for dew point, muggy-hour, and heat-index humidity proxies.

Known Limits

  • Station normals are proxies for places; they are not gridded averages for exact municipal boundaries.
  • Nearby stations are weighted by distance and elevation fit, then lower-confidence estimates are shrunk toward the all-place mean.
  • Microclimates, shade, wind, wildfire smoke, and local siting effects can differ from the station-based estimate.
  • Hourly station normals are environmental proxies, not forecasts or indoor-environment measurements.
  • Nearby stations are weighted by distance and elevation fit, then lower-confidence estimates are shrunk toward the all-place mean.
  • Allergy-risk scores do not include local spore counts, medical outcomes, building ventilation, or indoor humidity.

Top 10 Locations

Ranked by Comfortable Climate.

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