Skwentna, AK Climate: Temperature 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 Skwentna's primary NOAA station, SKWENTNA.
The climate verdict for Skwentna
Skwentna, Alaska has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 35°F. July is the warmest month at 60°F and January the coldest at 9°F.
- 35°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 109 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Skwentna: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USW00026514 · Skwentna, AK 35°F mean
TEMP-COLD · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-WIDE · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-COLD 35°F
- RANK-COOL #69
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Stanley
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-WIDE 51°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 11,107 HDD
- STN-1 USW00026514
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Stanley, ID ( -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.
- Skwentna (this station) 35°F
- Hot Leadville Lake…, CO 35°F
- Cold Stanley, ID 34°F
- Near Old Faithful, WY 34°F
- Near Snake Rvr, WY 34°F
Skwentna 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 · Skwentna
Skwentna: 5/100 · grade F
Skwentna publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Skwentna, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 208 calendar days | 10/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 109 days/year | 2/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 34.5°F · 33.0° from 67.5°F | 0/100 · F |
Skwentna · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · heating-led station
Where Skwentna sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Skwentna are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 99%
- Among 6,861 stations, Skwentna sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 83%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Skwentna 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 | 17°F (-8°C) | 1°F (-17°C) | 9°F (-13°C) | N/A | 30.8 | 0.0 |
| February | 25°F (-4°C) | 7°F (-14°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | N/A | 27.9 | 0.0 |
| March | 34°F (1°C) | 11°F (-12°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | N/A | 30.7 | 0.0 |
| April | 46°F (8°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 36°F (2°C) | N/A | 26.4 | 0.0 |
| May | 60°F (15°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 48°F (9°C) | N/A | 11.7 | 0.0 |
| June | 69°F (20°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 57°F (14°C) | N/A | 0.8 | 0.1 |
| July | 70°F (21°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 60°F (15°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| August | 66°F (19°C) | 46°F (8°C) | 56°F (13°C) | N/A | 0.6 | 0.0 |
| September | 56°F (13°C) | 38°F (3°C) | 47°F (8°C) | N/A | 9.1 | 0.0 |
| October | 41°F (5°C) | 26°F (-3°C) | 34°F (1°C) | N/A | 23.9 | 0.0 |
| November | 24°F (-4°C) | 11°F (-11°C) | 18°F (-8°C) | N/A | 29.5 | 0.0 |
| December | 19°F (-7°C) | 5°F (-15°C) | 12°F (-11°C) | N/A | 30.9 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 71°F around June 30, short of 90°F on every date, while 208 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 0°F near January 10.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 29, then returns to freezing around October 5, covering 208 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
May 29 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 25°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Skwentna.
Where Skwentna Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 208 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
Skwentna 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 9
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 23
50% probability date
Growing Season
109 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
11,107
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
14
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside AK closest to Skwentna 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).
- Stanley, ID 34°F · 0.1°F off
- Silver Gate, MT 34°F · 0.2°F off
- Silverton, CO 35°F · 0.2°F off
- Cooke City, MT 34°F · 0.3°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Skwentna's climate pattern fits together
heating led · mid swing
Skwentna's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 11,107 annual heating degree days against 14 for cooling. Its 50.8°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 109 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 Skwentna's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 50.8°F. The annual average is 35°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Skwentna'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 Skwentna'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 Skwentna, 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 Skwentna's primary station: SKWENTNA (USW00026514). 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 0270870), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Skwentna: 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 Skwentna 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.