United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Utqiagvik.

July leads for comfortable weather in Utqiagvik: typically 8.7°C by day, 2°C at night, with 25 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high8.7°C

Typical low2°C

Rain in July25 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · June

24climate match

Beach

January

January · February · March

5climate match

Outdoors

July

July · August · June

48climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 24 — days reach only -20.7°C, 45° 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

5-20.7° / -27.7°

Feb

5-20.9° / -27.9°

Mar

5-19.9° / -27.3°

Apr

5-11.9° / -19.2°

May

5-2.8° / -7.5°

Jun

95° / -0.5°

Jul

248.7° / 2°

Aug

166.9° / 1.7°

Sep

52.8° / -1°

Oct

5-3.6° / -8.4°

Nov

5-11.4° / -17.8°

Dec

5-18° / -24.6°

Monthly climate evidence for Utqiagvik — 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	-20.7°C	-27.7°C	4 mm	1.2	-1.7°C	none	5	Strong coverage
February	-20.9°C	-27.9°C	5 mm	1.7	-1.7°C	6 h 33	5	Strong coverage
March	-19.9°C	-27.3°C	5 mm	1.2	-1.7°C	11 h 12	5	Strong coverage
April	-11.9°C	-19.2°C	4 mm	1.4	-1.6°C	16 h 16	5	Strong coverage
May	-2.8°C	-7.5°C	7 mm	1.9	-1.0°C	24 h	5	Strong coverage
June	5°C	-0.5°C	11 mm	3.4	-0.6°C	24 h	9	Strong coverage
July	8.7°C	2°C	25 mm	5.8	1.2°C	24 h	24	Strong coverage
August	6.9°C	1.7°C	28 mm	6.7	2.5°C	18 h 47	16	Strong coverage
September	2.8°C	-1°C	20 mm	6.1	2.4°C	13 h 16	5	Strong coverage
October	-3.6°C	-8.4°C	14 mm	5.1	0.5°C	8 h 27	5	Strong coverage
November	-11.4°C	-17.8°C	9 mm	3.4	-0.9°C	1 h 46	5	Strong coverage
December	-18°C	-24.6°C	6 mm	1.6	-1.6°C	none	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Utqiagvik runs +3.8°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

+3.3

Feb

+5.3

Mar

+5.1

Apr

+3.5

May

+2.2

Jun

+2.0

Jul

+2.1

Aug

+1.5

Sep

+2.5

Oct

+6.2

Nov

+7.0

Dec

+4.3

July daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 9.9°C.

Records at BARROW AP, 1901–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	2.2°C1 Jan 2017	-47.2°C15 Jan 1951	16 mm8 Jan 2001	27 mm1962 · driest 0 mm in 1904	112
February	2.2°C4 Feb 1982	-48.9°C3 Feb 1924	15 mm12 Feb 2016	24 mm1917 · driest 0 mm in 2002	113
March	1.1°C21 Mar 1998	-46.7°C6 Mar 1923	9 mm12 Mar 2020	23 mm2020 · driest 0 mm in 1983	111
April	5.6°C24 Apr 1936	-41.1°C4 Apr 1924	11 mm4 Apr 1963	35 mm1963 · driest 0 mm in 2026	111
May	8.3°C21 May 2015	-28.3°C6 May 1984	11 mm25 May 2017	24 mm2017 · driest 0 mm in 1928	110
June	22.8°C20 Jun 2019	-15.6°C6 Jun 1969	21 mm26 Jun 1955	38 mm2014 · driest 0 mm in 1931	109
July	26.1°C13 Jul 1993	-5.6°C5 Jul 1936	36 mm26 Jul 2022	81 mm1989 · driest 0 mm in 1937	109
August	24.4°C5 Aug 2023	-6.7°C31 Aug 1922	21 mm10 Aug 1960	71 mm1963 · driest 0 mm in 1934	109
September	16.7°C4 Sep 1957	-17.2°C28 Sep 1975	17 mm16 Sep 2021	49 mm2012 · driest 0 mm in 1918	112
October	6.7°C10 Oct 2016	-35.6°C27 Oct 1970	19 mm13 Oct 1902	42 mm1925 · driest 0 mm in 1931	112
November	3.9°C11 Nov 1937	-40.0°C25 Nov 1948	10 mm10 Nov 1937	29 mm1965 · driest 0 mm in 1936	112
December	4.4°C5 Dec 2022	-48.3°C10 Dec 1924	10 mm3 Dec 2020	36 mm2025 · driest 0 mm in 1926	113

Typical days per month at BARROW AP, 1991–2020
Month	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	31	0	7
February	28	0	8
March	31	0	7
April	30	0	8
May	30	0	8
June	20	0	2
July	9	<1	<1
August	10	<1	2
September	20	<1	8
October	31	0	17
November	30	0	14
December	31	0	10

How often, not how much — every day in BARROW 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%	5%	<1%	1%	-26.6–-16.5°C
February	0%	6%	0%	3%	-28.8–-17.6°C
March	0%	4%	0%	1%	-25.4–-16.5°C
April	0%	4%	0%	2%	-17.2–-10.0°C
May	0%	4%	0%	2%	-6.0–-1.1°C
June	<1%	9%	<1%	7%	1.9–6.6°C
July	2%	18%	1%	17%	5.9–10.6°C
August	<1%	20%	1%	22%	3.5–9.5°C
September	0%	17%	<1%	16%	-1.0–4.4°C
October	0%	16%	<1%	13%	-10.3–-1.6°C
November	0%	9%	0%	5%	-19.5–-7.8°C
December	0%	5%	0%	2%	-24.3–-15.7°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.

1902Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 105-year average. Warmest: 2019. Coolest: 1964.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5880054
NOAA station: USW00027502 · BARROW AP
Station distance: 1.8 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 71.29°, 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 BARROW AP is what differs

Atqasuk→Browerville→Sinaru→

Or put two places side by side: Utqiagvik vs Atqasuk

Best time to visitUtqiagvik.

July

January

July

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Utqiagvik runs +3.8°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Utqiagvik.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Utqiagvik runs +3.8°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.