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When to go to Anchorage
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What the averages say
No month in Anchorage averages a high of 18°C or more; the warmest, July, averages 17°C.
- Cold months (a mean high under 10°C): October to April.
- The warmest month is July (17°C) and the coolest January (-6°C). The wettest is September (118 mm) and the driest April (38 mm); about 820 mm of rain falls in a year.
How these sentences are worded
Each sentence is written from the figures by fixed rules, and says no more than they do. Mild to warm: a mean daily high from 18°C up to 32°C. Hot: 32°C or more. Cool: 10°C up to 18°C. Cold: under 10°C. Dry: under 50 mm of rain in the month; wet: 150 mm or more. Humid: a high of 25°C or more with relative humidity of 70% or more. A month is described as good for going when it is mild to warm and not wet.
The year at a glance
- Mild to warm and dry
- Mild to warm, humid or showery
- Hot
- Cool
- Wet
- Cold
- JanCold
- FebCold
- MarCold
- AprCold
- MayCool
- JunCool
- JulCool
- AugCool
- SeptCool
- OctCold
- NovCold
- DecCold
Month by month
Every month in Anchorage
| Month | High | Low | Rain | Humidity | Cloud | Sunlight (kWh/m²/day) | High in Dubai | What it is like |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -6°C | -10°C | 53 mm | 92% | 65% | 0.3 | 23°C | Cold |
| February | -4°C | -9°C | 51 mm | 91% | 69% | 0.9 | 24°C | Cold |
| March | -2°C | -9°C | 39 mm | 88% | 63% | 2.4 | 27°C | Cold |
| April | 3°C | -2°C | 38 mm | 82% | 72% | 4 | 31°C | Cold |
| May | 10°C | 3°C | 47 mm | 78% | 79% | 4.9 | 35°C | Cool |
| June | 15°C | 8°C | 59 mm | 79% | 81% | 5.3 | 37°C | Cool |
| July | 17°C | 10°C | 83 mm | 81% | 83% | 4.8 | 39°C | Cool |
| August | 16°C | 10°C | 110 mm | 82% | 79% | 3.8 | 39°C | Cool |
| September | 11°C | 6°C | 118 mm | 84% | 78% | 2.4 | 37°C | Cool |
| October | 4°C | 0°C | 87 mm | 88% | 77% | 1.1 | 34°C | Cold |
| November | -3°C | -7°C | 71 mm | 92% | 70% | 0.4 | 29°C | Cold |
| December | -5°C | -9°C | 64 mm | 93% | 72% | 0.1 | 25°C | Cold |
The Dubai column is Dubai's mean daily high, for comparison.
Modelled averages for an area about 50 km across, not a weather station's record: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
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