#1Utqiaġvik
North Slope Borough · 4,640 peopleJuly high·January low −18°·0 days of 90°+ a year
Utqiaġvik, #1 on this list · Photo: Andrei from New York City/Juneau, U.S.A. · CC BY 2.0Alaska rankings · Climate
Towns with the coolest summers in Alaska
Utqiaġvik has the coolest summers of Alaska’s 41 towns of 2,500+: July afternoons average a high of 48° (NOAA 1991–2020 normals). The typical town here averages 66°; 41 of the 41 stay under 80°.
The average July high. NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020, from NOAA’s 5 km grid at each town’s center; one town for each grid cell. A described list: no letters. How grades work
#148°
#2Unalaska
Aleutians West Census Area · 4,306 peopleJuly high·January low 29°·0 days of 90°+ a year
#3Nome
Nome Census Area · 3,653 peopleJuly high·January low −2°·0 days of 90°+ a year
All 41 towns
July high, lowest first. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T = tied; 17 towns here).
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Which Alaska town has the coolest summers?
Utqiaġvik (North Slope Borough): July afternoons average a high of 48°. Unalaska (57°) and Nome (58°) follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By the average July high (the warmest month’s afternoons), lowest first, on NOAA’s 1991–2020 normals, read from its 5 km grid at each town’s center. Towns with the same figure share a rank (T); the figure and the state rank are the ones on each town’s Climate page. How grades work.
Why isn’t my town on this list?
The list covers towns of 2,500+ residents, one for each of NOAA’s 5 km grid cells (41 in Alaska): where towns share a cell, one of them stands for it, since the grid gives them the same figures. Every town’s own figures are on its Climate page. Every town is on the Alaska page.
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