Intricate Bay, AK Climate: Temperature by Month
Temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, plus PlainClimate's derived comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Intricate Bay's primary NOAA station, INTRICATE BAY.
The climate verdict for Intricate Bay
Intricate Bay, Alaska has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 37°F. July is the warmest month at 57°F and January the coldest at 17°F.
- 37°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 100 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Intricate Bay: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00503933 · Intricate Bay, AK 37°F mean
TEMP-COLD · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-MID · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-COLD 37°F
- RANK-COOL #137
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ St George Island
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-MID 40°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 10,298 HDD
- STN-1 USC00503933
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: St George Island, AK (+ 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.
- Intricate Bay (this station) 37°F
- Hot Eagle Rvr, AK 37°F
- Near St George Island, AK 37°F
- Near Matanuska, AK 37°F
- Near Fairplay S Park…, CO 37°F
Intricate Bay 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 · Intricate Bay
Intricate Bay: 6/100 · grade F
Intricate Bay publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Intricate Bay, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 198 calendar days | 15/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 36.7°F · 30.8° from 67.5°F | 0/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 100 days/year | 0/100 · F |
Intricate Bay · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · heating-led station
Where Intricate Bay sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Intricate Bay are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 98%
- Among 6,861 stations, Intricate Bay sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 34th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude 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 | 25°F (-4°C) | 10°F (-12°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | N/A | 26.6 | 0.0 |
| February | 30°F (-1°C) | 13°F (-11°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | N/A | 22.8 | 0.0 |
| March | 33°F (0°C) | 13°F (-11°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | N/A | 26.3 | 0.0 |
| April | 45°F (7°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | 36°F (2°C) | N/A | 21.3 | 0.0 |
| May | 56°F (13°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 45°F (7°C) | N/A | 13.1 | 0.0 |
| June | 63°F (17°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 52°F (11°C) | N/A | 2.2 | 0.0 |
| July | 66°F (19°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 57°F (14°C) | N/A | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| August | 64°F (18°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 55°F (13°C) | N/A | 0.7 | 0.0 |
| September | 56°F (13°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 48°F (9°C) | N/A | 6.7 | 0.0 |
| October | 44°F (7°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 37°F (3°C) | N/A | 20.4 | 0.0 |
| November | 34°F (1°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | N/A | 24.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 28°F (-2°C) | 14°F (-10°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | N/A | 27.0 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 66°F around July 4, short of 90°F on every date, while 198 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 9°F near January 11.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 26, then returns to freezing around October 12, covering 198 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
June 1 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 23°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Intricate Bay.
Where Intricate Bay Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 198 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
Intricate Bay 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
September 12
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
June 4
50% probability date
Growing Season
100 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
10,298
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 Intricate Bay 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 (37°F here).
- Babbitt, MN 37°F · 0.0°F off
- Lutsen, MN 37°F · 0.0°F off
- Island Park, ID 37°F · 0.1°F off
- Jackson, MT 37°F · 0.1°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Intricate Bay's climate pattern fits together
heating led · mid swing
Intricate Bay's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 10,298 annual heating degree days against 1 for cooling. Its 39.7°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 100 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.
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Intricate Bay's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 39.7°F. The annual average is 37°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Intricate Bay'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 Intricate Bay'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 Intricate Bay, 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 Intricate Bay's primary station: INTRICATE BAY (USC00503933). 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 Intricate Bay; 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 Intricate Bay 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.