Ideal weather days in Fairbanks
The best time to visit Fairbanks for warm, dry weather is June and July, with 22 to 23 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Fairbanks's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in June and July.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Fairbanks, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold267
- Too wet67
- Too windy4
- 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), Fairbanks averaged 81 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 most common in July (up to 5 a month, 10 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in May, June and August (up to 15 a month, 62 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 267 a year, mostly in September to April. Another 67 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in July to October. A day can fail more than one test.
Fairbanks weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -13 °C 9 °F | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 of 31 |
| February | -10 °C 14 °F | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 of 28 |
| March | 0 °C 31 °F | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 of 31 |
| April | 7 °C 44 °F | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 of 30 |
| May | 17 °C 62 °F | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 of 31 |
| June | 24 °C 75 °F | 6 | 0 | 0 | 23 of 30 |
| July | 25 °C 76 °F | 12 | 0 | 2 | 22 of 31 |
| August | 21 °C 69 °F | 11 | 0 | 1 | 17 of 31 |
| September | 14 °C 56 °F | 9 | 1 | 2 | 5 of 30 |
| October | 2 °C 35 °F | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 of 31 |
| November | -5 °C 23 °F | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 of 30 |
| December | -13 °C 8 °F | 8 | 0 | 6 | 0 of 31 |
| Year | 88 | 4 | 37 | 81 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 89 warm, dry days
- 2024 79 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Fairbanks for good weather?
The best time to visit Fairbanks for warm, dry weather is June and July, with 22 to 23 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in July (up to 5 a month, 10 a year). Counted from measured days at Fairbanks International Airport station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Fairbanks?
On average 88 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was July (12 rain days), the driest March (3).
How many sunny days does Fairbanks get a year?
About 37 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 January (6).
How warm does Fairbanks get?
The median daily high ranged from -13 °C (8 °F) in December to 25 °C (76 °F) in July.
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Source: Fairbanks International Airport weather station (70261026411), 8 km from the centre of Fairbanks, 131 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 89% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.