Wiseman, AK Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Wiseman's primary NOAA station, WISEMAN.
The climate verdict for Wiseman
Winter sets the terms in Wiseman, Alaska. A pronounced 67.4°F seasonal swing and heating demand above twice the cooling total frame an annual average of 23°F. July is the warmest month at 58°F and January the coldest at -10°F.
- 23°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 15.9"
- yearly precipitation total
Wiseman: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00509869 · Wiseman, AK 23°F mean · 15.9" precip
TEMP-COLD · RANK-COOL · ABOVE-PEER · PRCP-DRY · SWING-WIDE · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-COLD 23°F
- RANK-COOL #1
- ABOVE-PEER over Circle Hot Spri…
- PRCP-DRY 15.9"
- SWING-WIDE 67°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 15,446 HDD
- STN-1 USC00509869
- BOOK-FULL 5/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Circle Hot Springs, AK ( -1.3 °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 Tok, AK 24°F
- Near Kotzebue Ralph…, AK 24°F
- Near Port Alcan, AK 24°F
- Wiseman (this station) 23°F
- Cold Circle Hot Spri…, AK 21°F
Wiseman 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 · Wiseman
Wiseman: 7/100 · grade F
Wiseman publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Wiseman, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Precipitation balance | 15.9 in · 19.1 from 35 in | 32/100 · F |
| Annual temperature balance | 22.6°F · 44.9° from 67.5°F | 0/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 259 calendar days | 0/100 · F |
Wiseman · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
Wiseman is a continental Köppen climate: Dfc
Coldest-month mean -9.9°F and warmest-month mean 57.5°F place this station in continental, no dry season, cool summer climates (Dfc). Class Dfc is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: continental, specifically continental, no dry season, cool summer.
- Köppen code
- Dfc
- Group
- Continental
- Warmest month
- 57.5°F
- Coldest month
- -9.9°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 Wiseman sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Wiseman's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Cooler than 100%
- Among 6,861 stations, Wiseman sits in the cooler third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Drier than 80%
- Wiseman's annual total ranks in the drier third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 99%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Wiseman 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 | 0°F (-18°C) | -19°F (-28°C) | -10°F (-23°C) | 0.8" | 31.0 | 0.0 |
| February | 6°F (-15°C) | -15°F (-26°C) | -5°F (-20°C) | 0.9" | 28.0 | 0.0 |
| March | 19°F (-7°C) | -11°F (-24°C) | 4°F (-16°C) | 0.5" | 31.0 | 0.0 |
| April | 38°F (3°C) | 11°F (-12°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 0.6" | 29.4 | 0.0 |
| May | 56°F (13°C) | 29°F (-1°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 1.1" | 21.2 | 0.0 |
| June | 70°F (21°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 1.8" | 0.9 | 0.0 |
| July | 70°F (21°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 58°F (14°C) | 2.7" | 0.7 | 0.0 |
| August | 62°F (17°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 2.7" | 5.5 | 0.0 |
| September | 49°F (9°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 1.9" | 19.1 | 0.0 |
| October | 28°F (-2°C) | 10°F (-12°C) | 19°F (-7°C) | 1.1" | 30.2 | 0.0 |
| November | 7°F (-14°C) | -10°F (-23°C) | -2°F (-19°C) | 0.9" | 30.0 | 0.0 |
| December | 3°F (-16°C) | -15°F (-26°C) | -6°F (-21°C) | 0.9" | 31.0 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 72°F around June 25, short of 90°F on every date, while 259 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest -20°F near January 10.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into May 21, then returns to freezing around September 6, covering 259 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 19 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 30°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Wiseman.
Where Wiseman Stands Nationally
Winters bite deep and often: the normal nightly low dips to freezing or below on around 259 nights a year, placing this among the most frost-prone tenth of ranked stations.
A drier-than-most normal water year — around 16 inches, below what four out of five ranked stations collect.
Wiseman earns 2 nationally notable standings (outer quintiles) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations; only those extremes render.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Wiseman runs a summer-peaked wet season
46% of Wiseman's yearly precipitation falls in June, July and August alone, against the 25% an evenly spread year would give those three months. The wettest month is August at 2.7", on a wide 67.4°F gap between its warmest and coldest month. Warm-season convection and, across the Southwest, the North American monsoon produce this shape: rain arrives in short heavy bursts during the hottest part of the year rather than as long cool-season soaking.
- Wettest three months: August, July, September, taking 46% of the annual total between them.
- Driest month: March at 0.5".
- Winter share: 17% falls in December, January and February.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. A summer-peaked label means the June-August share reaches 35%; it describes timing across an average year, not any single season, and says nothing about how heavy an individual storm can be.
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
15,446
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
10
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside AK closest to Wiseman 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 (23°F here).
- Cooke City, MT 34°F · 11.6°F off
- Crested Butte, CO 34°F · 11.6°F off
- Silver Gate, MT 34°F · 11.7°F off
- Stanley, ID 34°F · 11.8°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (15.9" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Fremont, CA 15.9" · 0.0" off
- Judith Gap, MT 15.9" · 0.0" off
- Colorado Springs, CO 15.9" · 0.0" off
- Roosevelt, AZ 15.9" · 0.0" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Wiseman's climate pattern fits together
heating led · dry · high swing
Winter and seasonal range jointly define this record. Wiseman logs 15,446 heating degree days, more than twice its 10 cooling total, while the typical coldest-to-warmest-month gap reaches 67.4°F. The annual mean therefore compresses two materially different seasons.
A frost-free growing-season length is not available for Wiseman. 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 this dry, high-range record. The gap is 67.4°F, so a single annual figure is especially lossy; the annual average is 23°f. Compare monthly temperature and precipitation together before drawing a seasonal conclusion about Wiseman.
Wiseman's cold-season load does not imply a wet climate. Annual precipitation is 15.9 inches, which places the station in PlainClimate's dry range. Snowfall is not added to the interpretation because its annual value is missing. The snowfall and rainfall fields should be read separately rather than inferred from temperature.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Wiseman'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 Wiseman, 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 Wiseman's primary station: WISEMAN (USC00509869). 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 0285610), not an incorporated municipality. Match rule for Wiseman: 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 Wiseman 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.