Chandalar Lake, AK Climate: Temperature by Month
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30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Chandalar Lake's primary NOAA station, CHANDALAR LAKE.
The climate verdict for Chandalar Lake
Winter sets the terms in Chandalar Lake, Alaska. A pronounced 72.5°F seasonal swing and heating demand above twice the cooling total frame an annual average of 19°F. July is the warmest month at 57°F and January the coldest at -16°F.
- 19°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
Chandalar Lake: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00501492 · Chandalar Lake, AK 19°F mean
TEMP-COLD · RANK-COOL · BELOW-PEER · PRCP-UNK · SWING-WIDE · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-COLD 19°F
- RANK-COOL #1
- BELOW-PEER under Wiseman
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-WIDE 73°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 16,708 HDD
- STN-1 USC00501492
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Wiseman, AK (+ 3.5 °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.
- Hot Deering, AK 23°F
- Near Wiseman, AK 23°F
- Near Kivalina, AK 23°F
- Near Central, AK 23°F
- Chandalar Lake (this station) 19°F
Chandalar Lake 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
National standing · heating-led station
Where Chandalar Lake sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Chandalar Lake are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 100%
- Among 6,861 stations, Chandalar Lake sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 99%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Chandalar Lake is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -6°F (-21°C) | -26°F (-32°C) | -16°F (-27°C) | N/A | 31.0 | 0.0 |
| February | 1°F (-17°C) | -21°F (-30°C) | -10°F (-23°C) | N/A | 28.0 | 0.0 |
| March | 13°F (-10°C) | -15°F (-26°C) | -1°F (-18°C) | N/A | 31.0 | 0.0 |
| April | 32°F (0°C) | 2°F (-17°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | N/A | 29.6 | 0.0 |
| May | 52°F (11°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 40°F (4°C) | N/A | 23.0 | 0.0 |
| June | 67°F (19°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 54°F (12°C) | N/A | 1.9 | 0.0 |
| July | 69°F (21°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 57°F (14°C) | N/A | 0.9 | 0.2 |
| August | 61°F (16°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 49°F (9°C) | N/A | 9.5 | 0.1 |
| September | 47°F (8°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 36°F (2°C) | N/A | 23.3 | 0.0 |
| October | 26°F (-3°C) | 7°F (-14°C) | 17°F (-9°C) | N/A | 30.7 | 0.0 |
| November | 7°F (-14°C) | -15°F (-26°C) | -4°F (-20°C) | N/A | 30.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 2°F (-17°C) | -18°F (-28°C) | -8°F (-22°C) | N/A | 31.0 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 71°F around July 2, short of 90°F on every date, while 270 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest -28°F near January 21.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 24, then returns to freezing around August 29, covering 270 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.
The widest day
April 2 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 31°F between the normal high and the normal low.
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Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Chandalar Lake.
Where Chandalar Lake Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 270 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
Chandalar Lake earns one nationally notable standing (outer quintile) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations, middle-of-the-pack metrics stay silent here.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
N/A
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
N/A
50% probability date
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
16,708
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
7
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside AK closest to Chandalar Lake 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 (19°F here).
- Cooke City, MT 34°F · 15.1°F off
- Crested Butte, CO 34°F · 15.1°F off
- Silver Gate, MT 34°F · 15.2°F off
- Stanley, ID 34°F · 15.3°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Chandalar Lake's climate pattern fits together
heating led · high swing
Winter and seasonal range jointly define this record. Chandalar Lake logs 16,708 heating degree days, more than twice its 7 cooling total, while the typical coldest-to-warmest-month gap reaches 72.5°F. The annual mean therefore compresses two materially different seasons.
A frost-free growing-season length is not available for Chandalar Lake. That missing field is kept separate from the observed temperature and precipitation record rather than filled from a regional estimate.
Chandalar Lake's calendar has a pronounced split: July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar, with 72.5°F between them. The annual average is 19°F. That average is context, while the monthly highs, lows, and precipitation totals describe the lived parts of the year.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Chandalar Lake's annual precipitation total is unavailable. Monthly source values remain visible where NOAA provides them, and no annual amount is reconstructed from incomplete data.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Chandalar Lake's primary station, so the winter figures are a thirty-year average and not a floor: a single hard season can run well below them. Treat each band as a descriptive range for Chandalar Lake, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
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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 Chandalar Lake's primary station: CHANDALAR LAKE (USC00501492). 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 Chandalar Lake; 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 Chandalar Lake 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.