Puntilla, 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 Puntilla's primary NOAA station, PUNTILLA.
The climate verdict for Puntilla
Dryness leads the climate profile for Puntilla, Alaska, with 15.9 inches of precipitation a year. NOAA records an annual average of 30°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.
- 30°F
- annual average temperature (NOAA normal)
- 34/100
- comfort score, above 2% of station-mapped location scores
- 15.9"
- annual precipitation · 96" snow
- 87 days
- frost-free growing season
Puntilla: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00507783 · Puntilla, AK 30°F mean · 15.9" precip
TEMP-COLD · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-DRY · SWING-WIDE · COMF-LOW · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COLD 30°F
- RANK-COOL #69
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Two Rivers
- PRCP-DRY 15.9"
- SWING-WIDE 50°F
- COMF-LOW 34/100
- LOAD-HEAT 12,707 HDD
- STN-1 USC00507783
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Two Rivers, 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.
- Hot College, AK 31°F
- Near Fort Knox Mine, AK 31°F
- Puntilla (this station) 30°F
- Cold Farewell Lake, AK 30°F
- Near Two Rivers, AK 30°F
Puntilla 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 · Puntilla
Puntilla: 6/100 · grade F
Puntilla publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Puntilla, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 34/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 15.9 in · 19.1 from 35 in | 32/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 232 calendar days | 1/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 30.1°F · 37.4° from 67.5°F | 0/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 87 days/year | 0/100 · F |
| Snowfall burden | 96.3 inches/year | 0/100 · F |
Puntilla · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Puntilla is a continental Köppen climate: Dsc
Coldest-month mean 5.9°F and warmest-month mean 55.7°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
- 55.7°F
- Coldest month
- 5.9°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 Puntilla sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Puntilla'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, Puntilla sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 80%
- Puntilla's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 80%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Puntilla is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Puntilla compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Puntilla'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
Puntilla's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 36 complete annual observations from 1944 to 2022, PUNTILLA warmed at a fitted rate of 0.08°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Puntilla primary station fitted change +0.08 °C/decade
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 12°F (-11°C) | 0°F (-18°C) | 6°F (-14°C) | 1.2" | 15.9" | 30.7 | 0.0 |
| February | 22°F (-6°C) | 5°F (-15°C) | 14°F (-10°C) | 1.1" | 15.0" | 27.8 | 0.0 |
| March | 27°F (-3°C) | 6°F (-14°C) | 17°F (-8°C) | 0.6" | 8.5" | 30.9 | 0.0 |
| April | 40°F (4°C) | 20°F (-7°C) | 30°F (-1°C) | 0.5" | 5.3" | 28.3 | 0.0 |
| May | 53°F (11°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 0.3" | 0.4" | 19.2 | 0.0 |
| June | 62°F (16°C) | 42°F (5°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 1.1" | 0.0" | 6.3 | 0.0 |
| July | 64°F (18°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 56°F (13°C) | 2.1" | 0.0" | 0.6 | 0.0 |
| August | 60°F (16°C) | 44°F (7°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 2.1" | 0.0" | 3.0 | 0.0 |
| September | 50°F (10°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 2.1" | 1.2" | 11.8 | 0.0 |
| October | 35°F (2°C) | 22°F (-6°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | 1.5" | 8.6" | 25.8 | 0.0 |
| November | 21°F (-6°C) | 8°F (-14°C) | 14°F (-10°C) | 1.4" | 18.9" | 29.9 | 0.0 |
| December | 14°F (-10°C) | 2°F (-17°C) | 8°F (-13°C) | 1.8" | 22.5" | 30.9 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 65°F around July 5, short of 90°F on every date, while 232 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest -1°F near January 6.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 14, then returns to freezing around September 26, covering 232 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 July 31, when 37% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is May 1 at 9%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 93 wet dates a year.
The widest day
March 18 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 21°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Puntilla.
Where Puntilla Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 232 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
Among the steadiest day-night climates ranked: even the widest normal daily swing holds to roughly 21°F.
Puntilla 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: 15.9"
7.4 days with precipitation
Snow: 15.0"
7.1 days with precipitation
Snow: 8.5"
4.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 5.3"
3.0 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.4"
3.0 days with precipitation
6.8 days with precipitation
10.7 days with precipitation
10.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.2"
10.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 8.6"
7.8 days with precipitation
Snow: 18.9"
8.9 days with precipitation
Snow: 22.5"
10.6 days with precipitation
Puntilla spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 34% of the annual total and December through February 25%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Puntilla has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a wide 49.8°F gap between its warmest and coldest month.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: July averages 2.1" and May 0.3". The three wettest months together take 40% of the year, against the 25% a perfectly flat distribution would give them.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. "Spread across the year" means neither the June-August nor the December-February share reaches 35%; it describes an average year, not the variability of any single one.
Puntilla is dry, and what does fall arrives gently
Only about 92 days a year record measurable precipitation here, 25% of the calendar, and they carry 15.9" between them. At roughly 0.17 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 September at about 11 wet days; the driest is April at about 3.
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 Puntilla
Puntilla averages 96.3 inches of snowfall a year, with December the snowiest month on the normals, spread across roughly 46 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: 96.3 inches of depth.
- Days recording measurable snow: about 46 a year.
- At a rough ten-to-one melt ratio, snow accounts for on the order of 61% 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 2
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
June 7
50% probability date
Growing Season
87 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
12,707
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
5
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside AK closest to Puntilla 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 (30°F here).
- Cooke City, MT 34°F · 4.1°F off
- Crested Butte, CO 34°F · 4.1°F off
- Silver Gate, MT 34°F · 4.2°F off
- Stanley, ID 34°F · 4.3°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (15.9" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Bagdad, AZ 15.9" · 0.0" off
- Casper, WY 15.9" · 0.0" off
- Fort Collins, CO 15.9" · 0.0" off
- Kimball, NE 15.8" · 0.0" off
Snow and freeze rhythm
When cold and snow define Puntilla
heating led · dry · mid swing
Puntilla's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 12,707 annual heating degree days against 5 for cooling. Its 49.8°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 87 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. Puntilla coldest normal
January
Averaging 6°F (-14°C), this month sits below freezing for the month as a whole, not merely overnight.
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2. Puntilla typical freeze period
January through December
The station reports average freezing days from January through December.
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3. Puntilla snow peak
December
Puntilla averages 96.3 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 Puntilla's primary station: PUNTILLA (USC00507783). 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 Puntilla; 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 Puntilla 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.