Cannery Creek, AK Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Cannery Creek's primary NOAA station, CANNERY CREEK.
The climate verdict for Cannery Creek
Water is the standout signal in Cannery Creek, Alaska: 122.0 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 39°F. At 24/100 (below average) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 0% of scores.
- 39°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 24/100
- comfort score, above 0% of station-mapped location scores
- 122.0"
- annual precipitation · 151" snow
- 140 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Cannery Creek: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00501240 · Cannery Creek, AK 39°F mean · 122.0" precip
TEMP-COLD · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COLD 39°F
- RANK-COOL #274
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Bodie Californi…
- PRCP-WET 122.0"
- SWING-MID 31°F
- COMF-LOW 24/100
- LOAD-HEAT 9,529 HDD
- STN-1 USC00501240
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Bodie California St Historic P, CA ( -0.1 °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.
- Cannery Creek (this station) 39°F
- Cold Bodie Californi…, CA 39°F
- Hot Ovando, MT 39°F
- Near Alyeska, AK 39°F
- Near Lake George, CO 39°F
Cannery Creek 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 · Cannery Creek
Cannery Creek: 9/100 · grade F
Cannery Creek publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Cannery Creek, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 24/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 189 calendar days | 20/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 140 days/year | 18/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 38.8°F · 28.7° from 67.5°F | 2/100 · F |
| Precipitation balance | 122.0 in · 87.0 from 35 in | 0/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 151.4 inches/year | 0/100 · F |
Cannery Creek · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Cannery Creek is a continental Köppen climate: Dfc
Coldest-month mean 24.3°F and warmest-month mean 55.4°F place this station in continental, no dry season, cool summer climates (Dfc). Class Dfc is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, no dry season, cool summer.
- Köppen code
- Dfc
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 55.4°F
- Coldest month
- 24.3°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 Cannery Creek sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Cannery Creek's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 96%
- Among 6,861 stations, Cannery Creek sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 1% wettest
- Cannery Creek's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Narrower than 89%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Cannery Creek is compact versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Cannery Creek compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Cannery Creek's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
24 0th percentile score exceeds 0% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 30–40: 280 station-mapped locations (5%). Above this entry.
- 40–50: 1,113 station-mapped locations (18%). Above this entry.
- 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 | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29°F (-2°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 10.2" | 33.2" | 29.9 | 0.0 |
| February | 32°F (0°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 9.7" | 27.7" | 26.6 | 0.0 |
| March | 36°F (2°C) | 22°F (-5°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 6.8" | 25.3" | 29.6 | 0.0 |
| April | 44°F (7°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 6.3" | 6.3" | 23.3 | 0.0 |
| May | 53°F (12°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 7.0" | 0.1" | 9.0 | 0.0 |
| June | 60°F (16°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 5.6" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| July | 62°F (17°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 55°F (13°C) | 7.1" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| August | 61°F (16°C) | 47°F (9°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 13.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| September | 54°F (12°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 17.2" | 0.0" | 2.1 | 0.0 |
| October | 44°F (7°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 14.9" | 2.3" | 13.3 | 0.0 |
| November | 34°F (1°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 11.2" | 19.3" | 25.3 | 0.0 |
| December | 31°F (-1°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 12.1" | 37.2" | 29.3 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 63°F around July 29, short of 90°F on every date, while 189 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 20°F near January 12.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 28, then returns to freezing around October 23, covering 189 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 September 24, when 73% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is March 21 at 51%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 217 wet dates a year.
The widest day
May 21 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 18°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Cannery Creek.
Where Cannery Creek Stands Nationally
This is one of the wettest normals climates ranked: about 122 inches of precipitation in a normal year, a total fewer than one station in ten surpasses.
Among the steadiest day-night climates ranked: even the widest normal daily swing holds to roughly 18°F.
Cannery Creek earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 33.2"
17.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 27.7"
16.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 25.3"
15.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.3"
15.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.1"
17.1 days with precipitation
16.1 days with precipitation
18.6 days with precipitation
19.2 days with precipitation
21.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.3"
21.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 19.3"
17.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 37.2"
20.0 days with precipitation
Cannery Creek spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 22% of the annual total and December through February 26%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Cannery Creek has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 31.1°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: September averages 17.2" and June 5.6". The three wettest months together take 38% of the year, against the 25% a perfectly flat distribution would give them.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. "Spread across the year" means neither the June-August nor the December-February share reaches 35%; it describes an average year, not the variability of any single one.
When it rains in Cannery Creek, it arrives in quantity
122.0" of precipitation falls across only about 217 wet days here, averaging 0.56 inches each. Fewer days carry more water: the year's total is delivered in comparatively heavy events rather than persistent damp.
- Days with measurable precipitation
- about 217 a year, 59% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.56 inches
- Most wet days
- September, about 22
- Fewest wet days
- March, about 16
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, and a per-day average is not a forecast of any individual storm.
Winter brings real snow to Cannery Creek
Cannery Creek averages 151.4 inches of snowfall a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 54 days that record measurable snow. That is depth accumulating on the ground, which is why it can exceed the annual precipitation figure: precipitation counts the liquid the snow melts down to, and fresh snow is mostly air.
- Annual snowfall: 151.4 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 54 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 12% of the year's precipitation.
NOAA 1991-2020 normals. The ten-to-one ratio is a convention, not a measurement: real ratios vary with temperature, so treat the share as an order of magnitude rather than an exact split.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 3
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 16
50% probability date
Growing Season
140 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
9,529
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside AK closest to Cannery Creek 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 (39°F here).
- Fosston, MN 39°F · 0.0°F off
- Rugby, ND 39°F · 0.0°F off
- Wildrose, ND 39°F · 0.0°F off
- Dillon, MT 39°F · 0.1°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (122.0" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Hilo, HI 120.4" · 1.6" off
- Forks, WA 119.9" · 2.0" off
- Cougar, WA 115.3" · 6.7" off
- Naselle, WA 112.2" · 9.7" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Cannery Creek
heating led · wet · mid swing
Cannery Creek's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 9,529 annual heating degree days against 1 for cooling. Its 31.1°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 140 days are frost-free in a normal year. That short interval is consistent with the cold-season signal, but the measure does not predict the exact first or last freeze in any one year.
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1. Cannery Creek coldest normal
January
Averaging 24°F (-4°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Cannery Creek typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Cannery Creek snow peak
December
Cannery Creek averages 151.4 inches of snow a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals.
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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 Cannery Creek's primary station: CANNERY CREEK (USC00501240). 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 Cannery Creek; 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 Cannery Creek 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.