Willow West, 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 Willow West's primary NOAA station, WILLOW WEST.
The climate verdict for Willow West
Willow West, Alaska has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 33°F. July is the warmest month at 60°F and January the coldest at 6°F.
- 33°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 126 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Willow West: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00509861 · Willow West, AK 33°F mean
TEMP-COLD · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-WIDE · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-COLD 33°F
- RANK-COOL #69
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Soldotna
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-WIDE 54°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 11,521 HDD
- STN-1 USC00509861
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Soldotna, AK (+ 0.7 °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 Crested Butte, CO 34°F
- Near Soldotna, AK 34°F
- Near Cooke City, MT 34°F
- Willow West (this station) 33°F
- Cold Daniel Fish Hat…, WY 33°F
Willow West 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 · Willow West
Willow West: 5/100 · grade F
Willow West publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Willow West, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Frost-free season | 126 days/year | 10/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 211 calendar days | 9/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 33.4°F · 34.1° from 67.5°F | 0/100 · F |
Willow West · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · heating-led station
Where Willow West sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Willow West 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, Willow West sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 91%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Willow West 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 | 15°F (-9°C) | -4°F (-20°C) | 6°F (-15°C) | N/A | 30.9 | 0.0 |
| February | 25°F (-4°C) | 2°F (-17°C) | 13°F (-10°C) | N/A | 27.8 | 0.0 |
| March | 34°F (1°C) | 7°F (-14°C) | 21°F (-6°C) | N/A | 30.5 | 0.0 |
| April | 46°F (8°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | 36°F (2°C) | N/A | 25.9 | 0.0 |
| May | 58°F (15°C) | 37°F (3°C) | 48°F (9°C) | N/A | 9.5 | 0.0 |
| June | 67°F (19°C) | 47°F (8°C) | 57°F (14°C) | N/A | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| July | 68°F (20°C) | 52°F (11°C) | 60°F (16°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 0.1 |
| August | 65°F (18°C) | 49°F (9°C) | 57°F (14°C) | N/A | 0.3 | 0.0 |
| September | 56°F (13°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 47°F (9°C) | N/A | 6.8 | 0.0 |
| October | 41°F (5°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 32°F (0°C) | N/A | 26.6 | 0.0 |
| November | 24°F (-5°C) | 7°F (-14°C) | 16°F (-9°C) | N/A | 29.3 | 0.0 |
| December | 18°F (-8°C) | 0°F (-18°C) | 9°F (-13°C) | N/A | 30.9 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 69°F around July 1, short of 90°F on every date, while 211 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest -5°F near January 8.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 30, then returns to freezing around October 3, covering 211 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
March 10 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 28°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Willow West.
Where Willow West Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 211 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
Willow West 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 18
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 15
50% probability date
Growing Season
126 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
11,521
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
19
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside AK closest to Willow West 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 (33°F here).
- Cooke City, MT 34°F · 0.8°F off
- Crested Butte, CO 34°F · 0.8°F off
- Silver Gate, MT 34°F · 0.9°F off
- Stanley, ID 34°F · 1.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Willow West's climate pattern fits together
heating led · mid swing
Willow West's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 11,521 annual heating degree days against 19 for cooling. Its 54.4°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 126 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 Willow West's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 54.4°F. The annual average is 33°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Willow West'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 Willow West'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 Willow West, 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 Willow West's primary station: WILLOW WEST (USC00509861). 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 Willow West; 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 Willow West 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.