Ideal weather days in Anchorage
The best time to visit Anchorage for warm, dry weather is July and August, with 18 to 21 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Anchorage's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in July and August.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Anchorage, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold296
- Too wet66
- Too windy5
- Too hot0
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Anchorage averaged 55 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in the United States, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are rare: no month averaged more than 0. Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in June, July and August (up to 22 a month, 67 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 296 a year, mostly in September to May. Another 66 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in August and September. A day can fail more than one test.
Anchorage weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -1 °C 29 °F | 2 | 1 | 8 | 0 of 31 |
| February | -2 °C 28 °F | 3 | 1 | 8 | 0 of 28 |
| March | 4 °C 39 °F | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 of 31 |
| April | 9 °C 47 °F | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 of 30 |
| May | 14 °C 56 °F | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 of 31 |
| June | 18 °C 64 °F | 5 | 0 | 8 | 15 of 30 |
| July | 20 °C 68 °F | 11 | 0 | 6 | 21 of 31 |
| August | 20 °C 67 °F | 12 | 0 | 7 | 18 of 31 |
| September | 14 °C 57 °F | 17 | 2 | 4 | 1 of 30 |
| October | 8 °C 46 °F | 6 | 1 | 14 | 0 of 31 |
| November | 1 °C 33 °F | 7 | 1 | 8 | 0 of 30 |
| December | -3 °C 27 °F | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 of 31 |
| Year | 76 | 5 | 90 | 55 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 48 warm, dry days
- 2024 51 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Anchorage for good weather?
The best time to visit Anchorage for warm, dry weather is July and August, with 18 to 21 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are rare: no month averaged more than 0. Counted from measured days at Anchorage Merrill Field station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Anchorage?
On average 76 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was September (17 rain days), the driest March (1).
How many sunny days does Anchorage get a year?
About 90 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in October (14).
How warm does Anchorage get?
The median daily high ranged from -3 °C (27 °F) in December to 20 °C (68 °F) in July.
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Where is the best climate in the United States?
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Source: Anchorage Merrill Field weather station (70273526409), 2 km from the centre of Anchorage, 38 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 88% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.