Paxson, AK Climate: Temperature by Month
Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Paxson's primary NOAA station, PAXSON.
The climate verdict for Paxson
Paxson, Alaska has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 26°F. July is the warmest month at 54°F and January the coldest at 0°F.
- 26°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
Paxson: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00507097 · Paxson, AK 26°F mean
TEMP-COLD · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-WIDE · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-COLD 26°F
- RANK-COOL #1
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Nabesna
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-WIDE 54°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 14,132 HDD
- STN-1 USC00507097
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Nabesna, AK (+ 0.5 °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 Eielson Fld, AK 27°F
- Near Nabesna, AK 27°F
- Near Ester, AK 27°F
- Paxson (this station) 26°F
- Cold Glennallen, AK 26°F
Paxson 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 Paxson sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Paxson 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, Paxson sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 90%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Paxson 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 | 10°F (-12°C) | -10°F (-23°C) | 0°F (-18°C) | N/A | 31.0 | 0.0 |
| February | 18°F (-8°C) | -3°F (-20°C) | 7°F (-14°C) | N/A | 27.9 | 0.0 |
| March | 23°F (-5°C) | -1°F (-18°C) | 11°F (-12°C) | N/A | 31.0 | 0.0 |
| April | 38°F (3°C) | 15°F (-10°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | N/A | 29.7 | 0.0 |
| May | 52°F (11°C) | 29°F (-1°C) | 41°F (5°C) | N/A | 21.8 | 0.0 |
| June | 64°F (18°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 51°F (11°C) | N/A | 3.7 | 0.0 |
| July | 65°F (19°C) | 42°F (6°C) | 54°F (12°C) | N/A | 0.7 | 0.0 |
| August | 60°F (15°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 50°F (10°C) | N/A | 4.4 | 0.0 |
| September | 49°F (9°C) | 31°F (-1°C) | 40°F (4°C) | N/A | 17.7 | 0.0 |
| October | 33°F (1°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | N/A | 29.8 | 0.0 |
| November | 16°F (-9°C) | -1°F (-19°C) | 7°F (-14°C) | N/A | 30.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 11°F (-12°C) | -5°F (-21°C) | 3°F (-16°C) | N/A | 31.0 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 67°F around June 28, short of 90°F on every date, while 257 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest -11°F near January 11.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 25, then returns to freezing around September 12, covering 257 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, 26°F between the normal high and the normal low.
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Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Paxson.
Where Paxson Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 257 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
Paxson 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
14,132
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 Paxson 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 (26°F here).
- Cooke City, MT 34°F · 8.0°F off
- Crested Butte, CO 34°F · 8.0°F off
- Silver Gate, MT 34°F · 8.1°F off
- Stanley, ID 34°F · 8.2°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Paxson's climate pattern fits together
heating led · mid swing
Paxson's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 14,132 annual heating degree days against 1 for cooling. Its 53.9°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
A frost-free growing-season length is not available for Paxson. That missing field is kept separate from the observed temperature and precipitation record rather than filled from a regional estimate.
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Paxson's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 53.9°F. The annual average is 26°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Paxson'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 Paxson'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 Paxson, 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 Paxson's primary station: PAXSON (USC00507097). 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 0259320), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Paxson: 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 Paxson 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.