Anchorage month by month
Plan your visit to Anchorage by month. Compare weather, crowds, events, and prices across all twelve months with historical climate data.
- January
- High
- -4°C
- Low
- -10°C
- Rain
- 70 mm
January in Anchorage opens with roughly 5.5 hours of daylight on New Year's Day. The sun climbs above the Chugach Mountains after 10 AM, barely clears the southern horizon, and…
- February
- High
- -4°C
- Low
- -9°C
- Rain
- 49 mm
February in Anchorage belongs to Fur Rendezvous. The city's oldest winter festival has run since 1935, and it fills downtown 4th Avenue with sled dog sprints, a reindeer run, and…
- March
- High
- 1°C
- Low
- -7°C
- Rain
- 48 mm
March in Anchorage belongs to the Iditarod. The ceremonial start of the 1,000-mile sled dog race sends over 50 mushers and their teams down 4th Avenue on the first Saturday of the…
- April
- High
- 7°C
- Low
- -3°C
- Rain
- 37 mm
April in Anchorage means breakup, and not the romantic kind. Breakup is what Alaskans call the slow, messy melt of 6 months of accumulated snow and ice. Sidewalks flood with grey…
- May
- High
- 14°C
- Low
- 4°C
- Rain
- 57 mm
May in Anchorage is defined by one thing above all else. Daylight grows from roughly 16 hours at the start of the month to nearly 19 by the 31st, and that relentless sun changes…
- June
- High
- 18°C
- Low
- 10°C
- Rain
- 43 mm
June in Anchorage is defined by light. The sun rises before 4:30 a.m. and sets after 11:30 p.m., delivering nearly 19.5 hours of direct sunlight at 61°N. Even after sunset, the sky…
- July
- High
- 19°C
- Low
- 12°C
- Rain
- 98 mm
July in Anchorage means 18 to 19 hours of daylight and the warmest temperatures the city sees all year. Daily highs reach 19°C (66°F) with overnight lows around 12°C (53°F), which…
- August
- High
- 18°C
- Low
- 11°C
- Rain
- 150 mm
August in Anchorage is the wettest month of the year, with about 80mm of rain spread across roughly 14 days. That is the single most important thing to know. You will get rained…
- September
- High
- 12°C
- Low
- 6°C
- Rain
- 148 mm
September in Anchorage marks the end of the accessible season. Summer's long days have tightened to roughly 14 hours of light on September 1, and by the equinox around the 22nd…
- October
- High
- 5°C
- Low
- 0°C
- Rain
- 96 mm
The single most important thing to know about October in Anchorage is that summer is over. Not winding down. Over. Daylight drops from roughly 11 hours and 45 minutes on October 1…
- November
- High
- -3°C
- Low
- -9°C
- Rain
- 68 mm
November in Anchorage is defined by one thing above all else. Darkness. The city starts the month with roughly 8.5 hours of daylight and ends it with barely 6, and even during…
- December
- High
- -6°C
- Low
- -11°C
- Rain
- 61 mm
December in Anchorage is defined by darkness above all else. The winter solstice falls on December 21, and around that date the sun crawls above the Chugach Mountains after 10 AM,…