United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Valdez.

June leads for comfortable weather in Valdez: typically 16.5°C by day, 7.9°C at night, with 59 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJune

Typical high16.5°C

Typical low7.9°C

Rain in June59 mm

Comfort

June

June · July · August

53climate match

Beach

June

June · July · January

15climate match

Outdoors

June

June · July · May

73climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against June’s 53 — days reach only -2.2°C, 26° 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

5-2.2° / -7.3°

Feb

5-0.2° / -6°

Mar

52.2° / -4.9°

Apr

57.5° / -0.3°

May

2812.7° / 4°

Jun

5316.5° / 7.9°

Jul

4817.1° / 9.2°

Aug

3016.3° / 8.2°

Sep

512.1° / 5.2°

Oct

56.6° / 0.8°

Nov

50.5° / -4.3°

Dec

5-1.2° / -6.2°

Monthly climate evidence for Valdez — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 40 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-2.2°C	-7.3°C	167 mm	13.7	4.8°C	6 h 20	5	Good coverage
February	-0.2°C	-6°C	148 mm	12.8	4.1°C	8 h 51	5	Good coverage
March	2.2°C	-4.9°C	105 mm	11.6	4.0°C	11 h 31	5	Good coverage
April	7.5°C	-0.3°C	86 mm	11.2	4.8°C	14 h 33	5	Good coverage
May	12.7°C	4°C	83 mm	12	7.7°C	17 h 22	28	Good coverage
June	16.5°C	7.9°C	59 mm	9.9	11.6°C	19 h 16	53	Good coverage
July	17.1°C	9.2°C	98 mm	14.1	14.0°C	18 h 28	48	Good coverage
August	16.3°C	8.2°C	180 mm	16.2	13.9°C	15 h 49	30	Good coverage
September	12.1°C	5.2°C	259 mm	18.3	11.9°C	12 h 48	5	Good coverage
October	6.6°C	0.8°C	210 mm	16.4	9.3°C	9 h 53	5	Good coverage
November	0.5°C	-4.3°C	155 mm	13.3	7.4°C	7 h 08	5	Good coverage
December	-1.2°C	-6.2°C	181 mm	14.8	5.9°C	5 h 32	5	Good coverage

Records at VALDEZ WSO, 1917–2014
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	12.8°C31 Jan 1963	-31.1°C16 Jan 1951	92 mm26 Jan 1948	385 mm2001 · driest 2 mm in 1969	90
February	15.0°C11 Feb 1923	-33.3°C5 Feb 1947	102 mm15 Feb 1928	409 mm1953 · driest 2 mm in 2007	90
March	13.9°C25 Mar 1965	-23.9°C1 Mar 1918	118 mm16 Mar 1930	346 mm1930 · driest 10 mm in 1943	87
April	20.6°C28 Apr 2005	-17.8°C7 Apr 1927	62 mm1 Apr 1941	253 mm1941 · driest 0 mm in 1948	87
May	26.1°C15 May 1942	-10.6°C5 May 1945	69 mm3 May 2013	272 mm2013 · driest 9 mm in 1923	86
June	32.2°C17 Jun 2013	-2.8°C2 Jun 1961	34 mm16 Jun 1956	167 mm1955 · driest 3 mm in 1968	88
July	29.4°C2 Jul 1979	0.6°C7 Jul 1942	61 mm19 Jul 1930	292 mm1958 · driest 5 mm in 1968	90
August	28.3°C8 Aug 2003	-1.7°C25 Aug 1948	81 mm15 Aug 1993	463 mm1981 · driest 9 mm in 1967	91
September	23.3°C4 Sep 1996	-10.0°C27 Sep 1946	109 mm20 Sep 2012	664 mm2012 · driest 11 mm in 1926	89
October	20.6°C2 Oct 1924	-15.0°C27 Oct 1935	122 mm9 Oct 2006	453 mm2013 · driest 8 mm in 1967	90
November	15.0°C25 Nov 1936	-23.3°C25 Nov 1963	109 mm27 Nov 1956	523 mm1976 · driest 3 mm in 1963	90
December	12.2°C1 Dec 1966	-27.8°C26 Dec 1917	130 mm29 Dec 1955	441 mm1989 · driest 4 mm in 1917	89

Typical days per month at VALDEZ WSO, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	30	6	16
February	0	27	5	14
March	0	29	4	13
April	0	16	3	6
May	<1	1	2	1
June	<1	0	2	0
July	1	0	3	0
August	<1	0	6	0
September	0	1	8	<1
October	0	13	7	5
November	0	27	5	13
December	0	30	6	16

How often, not how much — every day in VALDEZ WSO’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%	40%	17%	53%	-6.4–0.3°C
February	0%	41%	16%	51%	-4.6–1.7°C
March	0%	36%	13%	45%	-1.1–4.0°C
April	<1%	33%	8%	42%	4.1–8.9°C
May	3%	37%	7%	52%	9.3–14.2°C
June	12%	34%	6%	44%	12.6–17.2°C
July	15%	43%	11%	61%	14.7–18.2°C
August	12%	51%	18%	70%	13.6–17.3°C
September	1%	57%	25%	76%	10.6–13.7°C
October	<1%	52%	23%	69%	4.7–8.2°C
November	0%	42%	17%	56%	-2.5–2.7°C
December	0%	43%	18%	58%	-5.4–0.3°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.

1918Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 79-year average. Warmest: 1997. Coolest: 1956.2013

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5877389
NOAA station: USW00026442 · VALDEZ WSO
Station distance: 0.2 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 23 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 61.13°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 40 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.

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Best time to visit
Valdez.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.