Fox, AK Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Explore NOAA NCEI's 1991–2020 climate normals → and a clearly labeled PlainClimate comfort calculation
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Fox's primary NOAA station, FOX 2 SE.
The climate verdict for Fox
Winter sets the terms in Fox, Alaska. A pronounced 61.9°F seasonal swing and heating demand above twice the cooling total frame an annual average of 28°F. At 34/100 (below average) the climate comfort score falls in the bottom third of the station-mapped U.S. score corpus, exceeding only 2% of scores.
- 28°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 34/100
- comfort score, above 2% of station-mapped location scores
- 15.6"
- annual precipitation · 55" snow
- 96 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Fox: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00503181 · Fox, AK 28°F mean · 15.6" precip
TEMP-COLD · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COLD 28°F
- RANK-COOL #69
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Tonsina
- PRCP-DRY 15.6"
- SWING-WIDE 62°F
- COMF-LOW 34/100
- LOAD-HEAT 13,546 HDD
- STN-1 USC00503181
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Tonsina, AK ( -0.2 °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.
- Fox (this station) 28°F
- Cold Tonsina, AK 28°F
- Hot N Pole, AK 28°F
- Near Nome, AK 28°F
- Near Mt Washington, NH 28°F
Fox 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 · Fox
Fox: 8/100 · grade F
Fox publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Fox, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 34/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 15.6 in · 19.4 from 35 in | 31/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 54.8 inches/year | 18/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 27.8°F · 39.7° from 67.5°F | 0/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 96 days/year | 0/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 237 calendar days | 0/100 · F |
Fox · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Fox is a continental Köppen climate: Dfc
Coldest-month mean -3.5°F and warmest-month mean 58.4°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
- 58.4°F
- Coldest month
- -3.5°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 Fox sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Fox's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 99%
- Among 6,861 stations, Fox sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 81%
- Fox's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 99%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Fox is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Fox compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Fox's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
34 2nd percentile score exceeds 2% 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%). This entry sits in this band.
- 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 | 5°F (-15°C) | -11°F (-24°C) | -3°F (-20°C) | 0.6" | 7.7" | 31.0 | 0.0 |
| February | 14°F (-10°C) | -6°F (-21°C) | 4°F (-16°C) | 0.6" | 7.8" | 28.0 | 0.0 |
| March | 25°F (-4°C) | 0°F (-18°C) | 13°F (-11°C) | 0.6" | 4.7" | 31.0 | 0.0 |
| April | 45°F (7°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 0.4" | 2.8" | 28.3 | 0.0 |
| May | 60°F (16°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 0.7" | 1.0" | 14.6 | 0.0 |
| June | 69°F (20°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 2.1" | 0.0" | 0.4 | 0.1 |
| July | 70°F (21°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 3.2" | 0.0" | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| August | 63°F (17°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 3.3" | 0.0" | 1.9 | 0.1 |
| September | 54°F (12°C) | 33°F (0°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 1.9" | 0.3" | 14.2 | 0.0 |
| October | 34°F (1°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 0.9" | 8.3" | 29.4 | 0.0 |
| November | 14°F (-10°C) | -1°F (-19°C) | 6°F (-14°C) | 0.9" | 11.3" | 30.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 7°F (-14°C) | -9°F (-23°C) | -1°F (-18°C) | 0.6" | 10.9" | 31.0 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 71°F around June 30, short of 90°F on every date, while 237 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest -12°F near January 7.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 11, then returns to freezing around September 18, covering 237 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 12, when 62% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is April 2 at 16%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 123 wet dates a year.
The widest day
May 12 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 27°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Fox.
Where Fox Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 237 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
A drier-than-most normal water year — around 16 inches, below what four out of five ranked stations collect.
Fox 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: 7.7"
7.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 7.8"
6.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.7"
5.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 2.8"
4.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.0"
7.3 days with precipitation
14.6 days with precipitation
16.4 days with precipitation
19.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.3"
13.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 8.3"
9.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 11.3"
9.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 10.9"
8.5 days with precipitation
Fox runs a summer-peaked wet season
55% of Fox'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 August at 3.3", on a wide 61.9°F gap between its warmest and coldest month. 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: August, July, June, taking 55% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: April at 0.4".
- Winter share: 11% 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.
Rain reaches Fox in small, frequent amounts
Fox records about 123 days with measurable precipitation a year and 15.6" in total, which works out to roughly 0.13 inches on an average wet day. Precipitation on 34% of all days, arriving that lightly, is the damp many-grey-days pattern rather than the storm-driven one.
Places in this band read as wetter than their annual totals suggest, because what people notice is the number of overcast days, not the depth in the gauge.
- Most wet days: August, about 20 of them.
- Fewest: April, about 5.
- Average depth per wet day: 0.13 inches.
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year and say nothing about the heaviest single storm on record.
Winter brings real snow to Fox
Fox averages 54.8 inches of snowfall a year, with November the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 49 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: 54.8 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 49 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 35% 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
September 1
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 28
50% probability date
Growing Season
96 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
13,546
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
16
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside AK closest to Fox 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 (28°F here).
- Cooke City, MT 34°F · 6.4°F off
- Crested Butte, CO 34°F · 6.4°F off
- Silver Gate, MT 34°F · 6.5°F off
- Stanley, ID 34°F · 6.6°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (15.6" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Downey, ID 15.6" · 0.0" off
- Plevna, MT 15.6" · 0.0" off
- Scottsbluff, NE 15.6" · 0.0" off
- Virginia City, MT 15.7" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Fox
heating led · dry · high swing
Winter and seasonal range jointly define this record. Fox logs 13,546 heating degree days, more than twice its 16 cooling total, while the typical coldest-to-warmest-month gap reaches 61.9°F. The annual mean therefore compresses two materially different seasons.
Only about 96 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. Fox coldest normal
January
Averaging -3°F (-20°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Fox typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Fox snow peak
November
Fox averages 54.8 inches of snow a year, with November 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 Fox's primary station: FOX 2 SE (USC00503181). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The 2024 Census Gazetteer identifies the exact name-and-state match as a census-designated place (GEOID 0226870), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Fox: exact normalized name + state only, no fuzzy expansion, so nearby differently spelled facilities stay unmatched.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Fox 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.