Weather in Anchorage, month by month

Warmest month
July, 13.5
Coldest month
January, -8.3
Wettest month
September, 118 mm
Year
2001-2020
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Across the 2001-2020 normals, the warmest month in Anchorage is July at 13.5 degrees and the coldest is January at -8.3, a swing of 21.8 degrees over the year. Those are monthly averages for the model cell the city sits in, not readings from a weather station in it.

Rain is heaviest in September, about 118 mm, and lightest in April at roughly 38 mm. Over a full year the cell above Anchorage collects around 822 mm.

No month in Anchorage averages between 15 and 24 degrees, so the year does not pass through what this page calls mild at all.

Humidity peaks in December at 93 percent, and the windiest month is February at 2.1 metres per second. Both are monthly means from the same twenty year series as the temperatures.

Rainfall is not spread evenly: 65 per cent of the year total falls in July, August, September, October, November and December.

5 months average below freezing: January, February, March, November and December.

Every figure here comes from one NASA POWER grid cell, at 61.22, -149.9, covering Anchorage on the 2001-2020 climatology. One cell, one period and one provider for every month, which is what makes the twelve rows comparable with each other.

The source publishes a monthly mean and, separately, the highest and lowest values it recorded in twenty years. Those extremes are not a typical afternoon or a typical night, so nothing here is quoted as one. This page does not say what the daytime high usually is, because this source cannot say it.

Normals are not a forecast. They describe what twenty years averaged to, and any single year can sit well outside them. They also describe a model grid cell of roughly fifty kilometres rather than a weather station, so a coastal city and the sea beside it share one figure.

Weather in Anchorage, month by month

MonthMean temperatureRainfallHumidity
January-8.353 mm92%
February-6.551 mm91%
March-5.639 mm88%
April0.438 mm82%
May6.547 mm78%
June11.159 mm79%
July13.583 mm81%
August12.7110 mm82%
September8.3118 mm84%
October287 mm88%
November-5.371 mm92%
December-764 mm93%

Questions

What is the warmest month in Anchorage?

July, on the 2001-2020 monthly averages.

What is the coldest month in Anchorage?

January, on the same twenty year series.

When does it rain most in Anchorage?

September carries the highest monthly total in the 2001-2020 normals.

Weather in Anderson, month by month

Same data, same method, different place.

Travel budget calculator

Your own numbers, worked out on the page.

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Sources

  • NASA POWER, https://power.larc.nasa.gov/api/temporal/climatology/point (CC BY 4.0; 'There are no restrictions on the use, access, and/or download of data from the NASA POWER Project' (AWS Open Data Registry entry))