United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Kenai.

July leads for comfortable weather in Kenai: typically 17.6°C by day, 9.4°C at night, with 50 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high17.6°C

Typical low9.4°C

Rain in July50 mm

Comfort

July

July · June · August

61climate match

Beach

July

July · June · August

24climate match

Outdoors

July

July · June · August

82climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 61 — days reach only -5.1°C, 29° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

5-5.1° / -13.5°

Feb

5-2° / -11.3°

Mar

50.6° / -9.7°

Apr

137.1° / -2.3°

May

3912.8° / 2.5°

Jun

5515.9° / 6.7°

Jul

6117.6° / 9.4°

Aug

5417.3° / 8.2°

Sep

3013.4° / 4.4°

Oct

56.4° / -1.8°

Nov

5-0.8° / -8.8°

Dec

5-3.5° / -11.6°

Monthly climate evidence for Kenai — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 10 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-5.1°C	-13.5°C	22 mm	5.1	0.0°C	6 h 30	5	Strong coverage
February	-2°C	-11.3°C	20 mm	4.2	-0.2°C	8 h 56	5	Strong coverage
March	0.6°C	-9.7°C	13 mm	3.4	0.1°C	11 h 32	5	Strong coverage
April	7.1°C	-2.3°C	15 mm	3.5	0.8°C	14 h 30	13	Strong coverage
May	12.8°C	2.5°C	20 mm	4.8	3.1°C	17 h 13	39	Strong coverage
June	15.9°C	6.7°C	30 mm	6.7	8.8°C	19 h 01	55	Strong coverage
July	17.6°C	9.4°C	50 mm	8.9	12.1°C	18 h 16	61	Strong coverage
August	17.3°C	8.2°C	68 mm	10.7	13.2°C	15 h 43	54	Strong coverage
September	13.4°C	4.4°C	91 mm	12.1	12.1°C	12 h 46	30	Strong coverage
October	6.4°C	-1.8°C	65 mm	9.9	9.0°C	9 h 56	5	Strong coverage
November	-0.8°C	-8.8°C	35 mm	6.6	5.2°C	7 h 16	5	Strong coverage
December	-3.5°C	-11.6°C	30 mm	6.6	1.1°C	5 h 44	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Kenai runs +1.2°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.

Jan

+2.1

Feb

+1.4

Mar

+0.7

Apr

+1.6

May

+1.3

Jun

+1.4

Jul

+0.8

Aug

+0.6

Sep

+0.2

Oct

+1.8

Nov

+0.6

Dec

+2.1

July daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 17.3°C.

Records at KENAI AP, 1899–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	9.4°C12 Jan 1903	-43.9°C4 Jan 1975	34 mm16 Jan 1990	77 mm1980 · driest 1 mm in 2023	92
February	11.1°C1 Feb 2007	-44.4°C4 Feb 1947	32 mm1 Feb 1948	71 mm1955 · driest 0 mm in 1950	92
March	15.0°C11 Mar 1905	-40.6°C7 Mar 1971	42 mm1 Mar 1990	81 mm1963 · driest 0 mm in 2022	92
April	20.6°C28 Apr 2005	-30.0°C2 Apr 1944	38 mm3 Apr 1946	69 mm1946 · driest 0 mm in 1997	91
May	27.8°C24 May 1969	-11.1°C4 May 1945	22 mm24 May 1995	71 mm1966 · driest 0 mm in 1904	92
June	30.6°C26 Jun 1953	-3.3°C8 Jun 1901	25 mm20 Jun 1980	75 mm1955 · driest 2 mm in 1901	92
July	31.7°C4 Jul 2019	-2.8°C6 Jul 1904	47 mm25 Jul 2013	128 mm1958 · driest 7 mm in 1968	92
August	30.0°C21 Aug 1977	-4.4°C29 Aug 1984	51 mm16 Aug 1905	157 mm1905 · driest 6 mm in 2019	91
September	23.9°C2 Sep 1904	-19.4°C28 Sep 1971	57 mm19 Sep 2012	254 mm1907 · driest 18 mm in 1969	91
October	17.2°C9 Oct 2006	-24.4°C27 Oct 1996	109 mm10 Oct 1986	187 mm1986 · driest 11 mm in 2024	92
November	15.0°C27 Nov 1905	-32.8°C12 Nov 1903	37 mm6 Nov 1979	177 mm1979 · driest 1 mm in 1963	91
December	13.3°C19 Dec 1906	-41.7°C31 Dec 1902	49 mm9 Dec 1963	100 mm1998 · driest 2 mm in 2025	92

Typical days per month at KENAI AP, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	30	<1	8
February	0	27	<1	7
March	0	29	<1	6
April	0	21	<1	2
May	<1	8	<1	0
June	<1	<1	<1	0
July	<1	0	1	0
August	<1	<1	2	0
September	0	5	3	<1
October	0	19	2	3
November	0	27	<1	6
December	0	30	<1	11

How often, not how much — every day in KENAI AP’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	0%	17%	1%	17%	-11.0–-1.3°C
February	0%	17%	2%	17%	-6.5–1.1°C
March	0%	14%	<1%	12%	-3.2–3.9°C
April	<1%	13%	1%	9%	3.5–8.8°C
May	3%	17%	1%	16%	9.7–13.8°C
June	8%	21%	2%	22%	12.8–16.9°C
July	16%	28%	5%	36%	15.1–18.8°C
August	13%	34%	7%	47%	14.9–18.2°C
September	1%	39%	9%	54%	11.7–14.7°C
October	0%	30%	6%	36%	3.8–8.4°C
November	0%	22%	2%	24%	-4.5–2.4°C
December	0%	22%	2%	23%	-10.0–-0.2°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1900Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 87-year average. Warmest: 2016. Coolest: 1975.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5866063
NOAA station: USW00026523 · KENAI AP
Station distance: 2.9 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 60.55°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 10 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from KENAI AP is what differs

Ridgeway→Salamatof→Skittok (historical)→

Or put two places side by side: Kenai vs Ridgeway

Best time to visitKenai.

July

July

July

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Kenai runs +1.2°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Kenai.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Kenai runs +1.2°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.