Lazy Mtn, 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 Lazy Mtn's primary NOAA station, LAZY MTN.
The climate verdict for Lazy Mtn
Dryness leads the climate profile for Lazy Mtn, Alaska, with 18.0 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 35°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.
- 35°F
- average temperature, NOAA 1991-2020 normal
- 34/100
- comfort score, above 2% of station-mapped location scores
- 18.0"
- annual precipitation · 83" snow
- 117 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Lazy Mtn: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00505464 · Lazy Mtn, AK 35°F mean · 18.0" precip
TEMP-COLD · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-MID · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COLD 35°F
- RANK-COOL #137
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Walden
- PRCP-DRY 18.0"
- SWING-MID 41°F
- COMF-LOW 34/100
- LOAD-HEAT 10,772 HDD
- STN-1 USC00505464
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Walden, CO ( -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.
- Hot Kenai, AK 36°F
- Near Little SU AT Ha…, AK 36°F
- Lazy Mtn (this station) 35°F
- Cold Boulder, CO 35°F
- Near Walden, CO 35°F
Lazy Mtn 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 · Lazy Mtn
Lazy Mtn: 10/100 · grade F
Lazy Mtn publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Lazy Mtn, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 34/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 18.0 in · 17.0 from 35 in | 40/100 · D |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 215 calendar days | 7/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 117 days/year | 6/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 82.5 inches/year | 5/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 35.4°F · 32.1° from 67.5°F | 0/100 · F |
Lazy Mtn · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Lazy Mtn is a continental Köppen climate: Dsc
Coldest-month mean 15.8°F and warmest-month mean 56.8°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
- 56.8°F
- Coldest month
- 15.8°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 Lazy Mtn sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Lazy Mtn's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 98%
- Among 6,861 stations, Lazy Mtn sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 76%
- Lazy Mtn's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 40th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Lazy Mtn compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Lazy Mtn'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 | 23°F (-5°C) | 9°F (-13°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | 1.0" | 14.7" | 30.7 | 0.0 |
| February | 29°F (-2°C) | 12°F (-11°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 1.0" | 13.6" | 27.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 34°F (1°C) | 14°F (-10°C) | 24°F (-5°C) | 0.9" | 11.3" | 30.7 | 0.0 |
| April | 46°F (8°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 0.5" | 4.8" | 26.8 | 0.0 |
| May | 58°F (14°C) | 35°F (2°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 0.8" | 0.9" | 10.3 | 0.0 |
| June | 64°F (18°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 53°F (12°C) | 1.4" | 0.0" | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| July | 66°F (19°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 2.0" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| August | 63°F (17°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 54°F (12°C) | 3.0" | 0.0" | 0.3 | 0.0 |
| September | 55°F (13°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 2.9" | 0.5" | 7.1 | 0.0 |
| October | 42°F (5°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 1.8" | 6.0" | 24.5 | 0.0 |
| November | 28°F (-2°C) | 15°F (-10°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 1.2" | 11.9" | 29.1 | 0.0 |
| December | 24°F (-4°C) | 11°F (-12°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | 1.5" | 18.8" | 30.7 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 66°F around July 10, short of 90°F on every date, while 215 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 8°F near January 12.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 3, then returns to freezing around October 2, covering 215 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 18, when 50% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is April 11 at 16%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 112 wet dates a year.
The widest day
May 20 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 Lazy Mtn.
Where Lazy Mtn Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 215 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
Days and nights track unusually close together; the widest normal swing, about 23°F, is narrower than most stations record.
Lazy Mtn 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: 14.7"
7.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 13.6"
6.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 11.3"
6.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 4.8"
4.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.9"
7.0 days with precipitation
10.0 days with precipitation
13.5 days with precipitation
15.3 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.5"
14.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 6.0"
9.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 11.9"
8.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 18.8"
9.4 days with precipitation
Lazy Mtn runs a summer-peaked wet season
35% of Lazy Mtn'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 3.0", on a 41°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: August, September, July, taking 44% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: April at 0.5".
- Winter share: 20% 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.
Lazy Mtn is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 112 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 31% of the calendar, and they carry 18.0" between them. At roughly 0.16 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 4.
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.
Winter brings real snow to Lazy Mtn
Lazy Mtn averages 82.5 inches of snowfall a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 39 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: 82.5 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 39 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 46% 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 16
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 22
50% probability date
Growing Season
117 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
10,772
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
2
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside AK closest to Lazy Mtn 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 (35°F here).
- Dillon, CO 36°F · 0.1°F off
- Walden, CO 35°F · 0.1°F off
- Boulder, CO 35°F · 0.2°F off
- Wisdom, MT 35°F · 0.2°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (18.0" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Belle Fourche, SD 18.0" · 0.0" off
- Goodwell, OK 18.0" · 0.0" off
- Cripple Creek, CO 18.0" · 0.0" off
- Wallowa, OR 18.0" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Lazy Mtn
heating led · dry · mid swing
Lazy Mtn's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 10,772 annual heating degree days against 2 for cooling. Its 41.0°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 117 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. Lazy Mtn coldest normal
January
Averaging 16°F (-9°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Lazy Mtn typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Lazy Mtn snow peak
December
Lazy Mtn averages 82.5 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 Lazy Mtn's primary station: LAZY MTN (USC00505464). 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 Lazy Mtn; 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 Lazy Mtn 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.