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Nabesna, 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 Nabesna's primary NOAA station, NABESNA.

The climate verdict for Nabesna

Winter sets the terms in Nabesna, Alaska. A pronounced 59.2°F seasonal swing and heating demand above twice the cooling total frame an annual average of 27°F. July is the warmest month at 55°F and January the coldest at -4°F.

27°F
annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
89 days
growing season, frost-free days

Nabesna: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.

Normals record plate

Sheet USC00506147 · Nabesna, AK 27°F mean

TEMP-COLD · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-WIDE · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART

Nearest mean-temperature peer: Ruby, AK ( -0.4 °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.

Nabesna 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 · Nabesna

Nabesna: 0/100 · grade F

Nabesna publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.

F
0/100Climate Living Index

PlainClimate-derived for Nabesna, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.

Nabesna Living Index dimension scores
DimensionStation valueScore
Annual temperature balance 26.7°F · 40.8° from 67.5°F 0/100 · F
Frost-free season 89 days/year 0/100 · F
Normal heat + freeze calendar 237 calendar days 0/100 · F

Nabesna · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .

National standing · heating-led station

Where Nabesna sits across the climate record

Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Nabesna 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, Nabesna sits in the cooler third of annual means.
Seasonal temperature swing
Wider than 97%
Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Nabesna is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.

Monthly Temperatures

Average daily high and low temperatures by month

Month Avg High Avg Low Mean
January 3°F (-16°C) -11°F (-24°C) -4°F (-20°C)
February 14°F (-10°C) -2°F (-19°C) 6°F (-15°C)
March 23°F (-5°C) 3°F (-16°C) 13°F (-10°C)
April 42°F (5°C) 20°F (-7°C) 31°F (-1°C)
May 54°F (12°C) 34°F (1°C) 44°F (7°C)
June 65°F (18°C) 41°F (5°C) 53°F (11°C)
July 66°F (19°C) 45°F (7°C) 55°F (13°C)
August 61°F (16°C) 42°F (5°C) 51°F (11°C)
September 51°F (10°C) 31°F (0°C) 41°F (5°C)
October 32°F (0°C) 17°F (-8°C) 24°F (-4°C)
November 12°F (-11°C) 1°F (-17°C) 7°F (-14°C)
December 6°F (-15°C) -5°F (-21°C) 0°F (-18°C)

The year, day by day

Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 67°F around June 29, short of 90°F on every date, while 237 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest -12°F near January 12.

Normal daily high and low temperature for Nabesna, January through December Peaks 67°F around June 29. Bottoms -12°F around January 12. -20 0 20 40 60 freezing JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Normal daily high and low across the calendar year. NOAA 1991–2020 daily normals, NABESNA.

The freezing stretch

The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 7, then returns to freezing around September 14, 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.

The widest day

June 17 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 24°F between the normal high and the normal low.

Look up any date

Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Nabesna.

Where Nabesna 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.

Nabesna 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

January N/A
February N/A
March N/A
April N/A
May N/A
June N/A
July N/A
August N/A
September N/A
October N/A
November N/A
December N/A

Frost Dates & Growing Season

First Fall Freeze

September 1

50% probability date

Last Spring Freeze

June 4

50% probability date

Growing Season

89 days

Heating & Cooling Degree Days

Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling

Heating Degree Days

13,928

Higher = more heating needed

Cooling Degree Days

3

Higher = more cooling needed

Warmest Month

July

Coldest Month

January

Nationwide similar cities

Other rankable U.S. places outside AK closest to Nabesna 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 (27°F here).

Alaska climate overview →

Data-derived climate profile

How Nabesna's climate pattern fits together

heating led · high swing

Winter and seasonal range jointly define this record. Nabesna logs 13,928 heating degree days, more than twice its 3 cooling total, while the typical coldest-to-warmest-month gap reaches 59.2°F. The annual mean therefore compresses two materially different seasons.

Only about 89 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.

Nabesna's calendar has a pronounced split: July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar, with 59.2°F between them. The annual average is 27°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 Nabesna'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 Nabesna'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 Nabesna, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.

Questions about Nabesna's climate

How cold does Nabesna get in winter?
Nabesna records about 250 days a year with a low at or below freezing, with January the coldest month on the normals, and an annual average daily low of 18°F.
How much energy does heating and cooling require in Nabesna?
Nabesna has 13,928 heating degree days and 3 cooling degree days annually, a heating-dominated climate. Degree-day definitions: reading weather data.

Data Sources

Data source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals v1.0.1 (1991-2020). All figures on this page are from Nabesna's primary station: NABESNA (USC00506147). 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 0251960), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Nabesna: exact normalized name + state only, no fuzzy expansion, so nearby differently spelled facilities stay unmatched.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainClimate

On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Nabesna 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.