#1Ketchikan
Ketchikan Gateway Borough · 7,939 people11 days a year with an inch or more·Annette Island AP station, 36 km
Ketchikan, #1 on this list · Creek Street Historic District · Photo: Jerzystrzelecki · CC BY 3.0Alaska rankings · Climate
Towns with the least snow in Alaska
Ketchikan gets the least snow of Alaska’s 35 towns of 2,500+ with a snow record: about 35 inches in a normal winter at its NOAA station. Valdez gets the most, about 325 inches; 0 of the 35 average under 30 inches.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020, at each town’s nearest station with a snow record (named in each row). A described list: no letters. How grades work
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#2Mill Bay
unincorporated, Kodiak Island Borough · 3,654 people17 days a year with an inch or more·Kodiak Wwtp station, 1 km
#3Utqiaġvik
North Slope Borough · 4,640 people12 days a year with an inch or more·Barrow Post Rogers AP station, 2 km
All 35 towns
Snow in a normal winter, least first. Towns that share a station share its figure and rank (T = tied; 13 towns here share a station).
35 towns ranked. Not here? See why a town may be missing.
#TownSnow a yearDays with 1″+NOAA station
A station’s normal can differ from the town’s own when the station sits higher or lower; each town’s Climate page names its station and checks it.
Quick answers
Questions people ask
What part of Alaska gets the least amount of snow?
Among towns of 2,500+, the least snow falls in Ketchikan (Ketchikan Gateway Borough, about 35 in), Mill Bay (Kodiak Island Borough, about 43 in), Utqiaġvik (North Slope Borough, about 46 in), on NOAA’s 1991–2020 normals at each town’s station.
Which Alaska town gets the most snow?
Valdez (Chugach Census Area), about 325 inches in a normal winter at the Valdez WSO station. See the snowiest towns.
Why isn’t my town on this list?
The list covers towns of 2,500+ residents (41 in Alaska) whose nearest station has a snow normal of an inch or more; 6 have no station with a snow record. Smaller towns show their snow on their own Climate page.
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