Anchorage Lake Hood, AK Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Average temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, with a derived climate comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Anchorage Lake Hood's primary NOAA station, ANCHORAGE LAKE HOOD AP.
The climate verdict for Anchorage Lake Hood
Dryness leads the climate profile for Anchorage Lake Hood, Alaska, with 15.0 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 38°F. At 40/100 (moderate) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 6% of scores.
- 38°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 40/100
- comfort score, above 6% of station-mapped location scores
- 15.0"
- annual precipitation
- 155 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Anchorage Lake Hood: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USW00026491 · Anchorage Lake Hood, AK 38°F mean · 15.0" precip
TEMP-COLD · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COLD 38°F
- RANK-COOL #206
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Hermit
- PRCP-DRY 15.0"
- SWING-MID 44°F
- COMF-LOW 40/100
- LOAD-HEAT 9,841 HDD
- STN-1 USW00026491
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Hermit, CO (+ 0 °F mean)
Instrument codes from this station's NOAA 1991–2020 normals, mean temperature, corpus warmth rank, photo-finish peer station, precipitation band, seasonal swing, comfort composite, degree-day load, and field book, not a livability rating.
Mean-temperature neighbourhood
Nationwide NOAA normal poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every AK station list.
- Anchorage Lake… (this station) 38°F
- Cold Jackson, WY 38°F
- Hot Pahaska, WY 38°F
- Near Hermit, CO 38°F
- Near Crater Lake Nps…, OR 38°F
Anchorage Lake Hood sits in Alaska, the #1 coldest U.S. state at 33.5°F statewide annual average - see all 50 coldest states ranked by NOAA normals
Climate Living Index · Anchorage Lake Hood
Anchorage Lake Hood: 28/100 · grade F
Anchorage Lake Hood publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals · NOAA hourly normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Anchorage Lake Hood, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 40/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Summer moisture balance | 48.3°F mean dew point | 84/100 · B |
| Frost-free season | 155 days/year | 29/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 15.0 in · 20.0 from 35 in | 28/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 188 calendar days | 21/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 38.0°F · 29.5° from 67.5°F | 0/100 · F |
Anchorage Lake Hood · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Anchorage Lake Hood is a continental Köppen climate: Dsc
Coldest-month mean 16.5°F and warmest-month mean 60.9°F place this station in continental, dry-summer, cool summer climates (Dsc). Class Dsc is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, dry-summer, cool summer.
- Köppen code
- Dsc
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 60.9°F
- Coldest month
- 16.5°F
Source: official public datasets monthly normals (1991–2020) at the city’s primary station. This is a station classification, not a mapped regional consensus.
National standing · heating-led station
Where Anchorage Lake Hood sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Anchorage Lake Hood's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 97%
- Among 6,861 stations, Anchorage Lake Hood sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 83%
- Anchorage Lake Hood's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 55th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Anchorage Lake Hood compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Anchorage Lake Hood's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
40 6th percentile score exceeds 6% of 6,189 station-mapped location scores
- 0–10: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
- 10–20: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
- 20–30: 96 station-mapped locations (2%). Below this entry.
- 30–40: 280 station-mapped locations (5%). Below this entry.
- 40–50: 1,113 station-mapped locations (18%). This entry sits in this band.
- 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). Above this entry.
- 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). Above this entry.
- 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). Above this entry.
- 80–90: 921 station-mapped locations (15%). Above this entry.
- 90–100: 564 station-mapped locations (9%). Above this entry.
Source NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, PlainClimate comfort index · 1991–2020
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 23°F (-5°C) | 10°F (-12°C) | 17°F (-9°C) | 0.6" | 30.1 | 0.0 |
| February | 27°F (-3°C) | 14°F (-10°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 0.6" | 27.0 | 0.0 |
| March | 33°F (1°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 0.6" | 29.5 | 0.0 |
| April | 46°F (8°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 0.4" | 18.5 | 0.0 |
| May | 58°F (14°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 49°F (10°C) | 0.6" | 1.2 | 0.0 |
| June | 66°F (19°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 0.9" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| July | 68°F (20°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 1.8" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| August | 65°F (19°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 2.8" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| September | 57°F (14°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 3.1" | 1.2 | 0.0 |
| October | 42°F (6°C) | 31°F (0°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 1.7" | 13.0 | 0.0 |
| November | 29°F (-2°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 24°F (-5°C) | 1.1" | 27.1 | 0.0 |
| December | 25°F (-4°C) | 13°F (-11°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 0.9" | 30.3 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 68°F around July 12, short of 90°F on every date, while 188 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 9°F near January 10.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 20, then returns to freezing around October 16, covering 188 dates in all.
Derived from the normal daily minimum. This is a different measure from the 50%-probability frost dates shown elsewhere on this page, which come from NOAA’s frost product.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is August 28, when 51% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is April 21 at 16%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 108 wet dates a year.
The widest day
May 17 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 17°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Anchorage Lake Hood.
Where Anchorage Lake Hood Stands Nationally
Among the steadiest day-night climates ranked: even the widest normal daily swing holds to roughly 17°F.
Freezing is routine here by normals standards — the normal low reaches 32°F or colder on about 188 nights a year, more than most ranked stations.
Anchorage Lake Hood earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
6.4 days with precipitation
5.9 days with precipitation
5.3 days with precipitation
4.7 days with precipitation
6.0 days with precipitation
9.0 days with precipitation
12.7 days with precipitation
15.4 days with precipitation
15.0 days with precipitation
11.7 days with precipitation
7.2 days with precipitation
7.8 days with precipitation
Anchorage Lake Hood runs a summer-peaked wet season
37% of Anchorage Lake Hood's yearly precipitation falls in June, July and August alone, against the 25% an evenly spread year would give those three months. The wettest month is September at 3.1", on a 44.4°F seasonal spread. Warm-season convection and, across the Southwest, the North American monsoon produce this shape: rain arrives in short heavy bursts during the hottest part of the year rather than as long cool-season soaking.
- Wettest three months: September, August, July, taking 51% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: April at 0.4".
- Winter share: 14% falls in December, January and February.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. A summer-peaked label means the June-August share reaches 35%; it describes timing across an average year, not any single season, and says nothing about how heavy an individual storm can be.
Anchorage Lake Hood is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 107 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 29% of the calendar, and they carry 15.0" between them. At roughly 0.14 inches on an average wet day, this is not the damp drizzle of a marine climate; it is an arid record in which precipitation is both uncommon and light when it appears.
The wettest month by count is August at about 15 wet days; the driest is April at about 5.
A low per-event average in a dry record is a statement about typical days only. Arid regions can still take a large share of a year's total from a single convective storm, which a normal cannot show.
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, not the extremes within it.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 3
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 1
50% probability date
Growing Season
155 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
9,841
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
17
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Humidity & Wind
Monthly averages from hourly observations
| Month | Humidity | Wind (mph) | Clear Sky % | Overcast % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 75% | 4.5 | N/A | N/A |
| February | 68% | 4.7 | N/A | N/A |
| March | 65% | 4.7 | N/A | N/A |
| April | 58% | 5.5 | N/A | N/A |
| May | 59% | 6.1 | N/A | N/A |
| June | 65% | 5.2 | N/A | N/A |
| July | 71% | 4.8 | N/A | N/A |
| August | 73% | 4.6 | N/A | N/A |
| September | 74% | 5.1 | N/A | N/A |
| October | 74% | 5.1 | N/A | N/A |
| November | 77% | 4.7 | N/A | N/A |
| December | 77% | 4.2 | N/A | N/A |
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside AK closest to Anchorage Lake Hood on two NOAA annual-normal axes (mean temperature and annual precipitation). Chip rows use distinct link sets.
Closest by average temperature
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual mean temperature (38°F here).
- Cook, MN 38°F · 0.0°F off
- Wright, MN 38°F · 0.0°F off
- Cavalier, ND 38°F · 0.1°F off
- Ely, MN 38°F · 0.1°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (15.0" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Ellicott, CO 15.0" · 0.0" off
- Yoder, WY 15.0" · 0.0" off
- Polson, MT 15.0" · 0.0" off
- Santa Rosa, NM 15.0" · 0.0" off
Scarce-water calendar
Where Anchorage Lake Hood's limited precipitation lands
heating led · dry · mid swing
Anchorage Lake Hood's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 9,841 annual heating degree days against 17 for cooling. Its 44.4°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Anchorage Lake Hood's frost-free season lasts about 155 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Anchorage Lake Hood's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 44.4°F. The annual average is 38°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Anchorage Lake Hood's cold-season load does not imply a wet climate. Annual precipitation is 15.0 inches, which places the station in PlainClimate's dry range. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. The snowfall and rainfall fields should be read separately rather than inferred from temperature.
Anchorage Lake Hood wettest normal
September
September concentrates the scarce annual total (15.0 inches).
Anchorage Lake Hood driest normal
April
April is typically driest; arid stations are defined by when water is absent, not by a four-season grid.
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Data Sources
Data source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals v1.0.1 (1991-2020). All figures on this page are from Anchorage Lake Hood's primary station: ANCHORAGE LAKE HOOD AP (USW00026491). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The conservative exact name-and-state crosswalk finds no Census place match, so PlainClimate treats this as a station-mapped location and does not claim it is a municipality. No exact Gazetteer row for Anchorage Lake Hood; facility counts that depend on place identity are therefore an upper bound, not a municipal census.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Anchorage Lake Hood comes from its primary NOAA station record. No figure on this page is typed in by an editor - each value is rendered from NOAA 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 1991–2020 normals.