United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Bethel.

July leads for comfortable weather in Bethel: typically 17.6°C by day, 9.4°C at night, with 65 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high17.6°C

Typical low9.4°C

Rain in July65 mm

Comfort

July

July · June · August

57climate match

Beach

July

July · June · August

19climate match

Outdoors

June

June · July · August

76climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 57 — days reach only -10.7°C, 35° 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

5-10.7° / -17.1°

Feb

5-6.6° / -14.2°

Mar

5-5.5° / -13.9°

Apr

52.7° / -6°

May

2811.1° / 1.2°

Jun

5516.7° / 7°

Jul

5717.6° / 9.4°

Aug

4515.9° / 8.5°

Sep

2611.5° / 4.1°

Oct

53.3° / -3.1°

Nov

5-4.3° / -10.7°

Dec

5-8.7° / -15.7°

Monthly climate evidence for Bethel — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-10.7°C	-17.1°C	20 mm	5	6 h 26	5	Strong coverage
February	-6.6°C	-14.2°C	22 mm	6.2	8 h 54	5	Strong coverage
March	-5.5°C	-13.9°C	19 mm	4.9	11 h 32	5	Strong coverage
April	2.7°C	-6°C	20 mm	5.2	14 h 31	5	Strong coverage
May	11.1°C	1.2°C	31 mm	7.6	17 h 17	28	Strong coverage
June	16.7°C	7°C	45 mm	8.9	19 h 07	55	Strong coverage
July	17.6°C	9.4°C	65 mm	11.6	18 h 21	57	Strong coverage
August	15.9°C	8.5°C	85 mm	13.2	15 h 45	45	Strong coverage
September	11.5°C	4.1°C	73 mm	12.3	12 h 47	26	Strong coverage
October	3.3°C	-3.1°C	47 mm	9.4	9 h 55	5	Strong coverage
November	-4.3°C	-10.7°C	46 mm	8.8	7 h 12	5	Strong coverage
December	-8.7°C	-15.7°C	27 mm	6.5	5 h 39	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Bethel runs +1.8°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

+1.5

Feb

+4.6

Mar

+1.2

Apr

+3.3

May

+2.4

Jun

+2.2

Jul

+0.2

Aug

+0.5

Sep

+0.2

Oct

+2.9

Nov

+1.0

Dec

+2.2

July daytime highs, 2011–2025. Last recorded: 16.4°C.

Records at BETHEL AP, 1923–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	9.4°C6 Jan 1942	-46.7°C25 Jan 1947	45 mm3 Jan 1952	165 mm1952 · driest 1 mm in 1941	103
February	10.6°C13 Feb 1927	-42.8°C2 Feb 1947	26 mm27 Feb 1996	100 mm1944 · driest 0 mm in 1926	103
March	11.7°C29 Mar 1934	-41.1°C1 Mar 1956	31 mm3 Mar 1949	88 mm1991 · driest 0 mm in 1986	103
April	17.2°C30 Apr 2004	-35.0°C5 Apr 1956	23 mm18 Apr 1983	99 mm1979 · driest 0 mm in 2021	103
May	26.7°C31 May 1993	-20.6°C2 May 1949	34 mm2 May 2002	92 mm2002 · driest 1 mm in 1954	103
June	32.2°C17 Jun 1926	-2.2°C6 Jun 1962	35 mm11 Jun 1981	110 mm1999 · driest 3 mm in 1935	103
July	31.7°C8 Jul 2019	-1.1°C10 Jul 1934	36 mm27 Jul 1952	156 mm1924 · driest 4 mm in 1933	103
August	30.6°C9 Aug 2003	-2.2°C26 Aug 1984	58 mm12 Aug 1951	314 mm1951 · driest 8 mm in 1934	103
September	24.4°C10 Sep 1935	-7.8°C28 Sep 1970	50 mm28 Sep 1971	189 mm1924 · driest 7 mm in 1935	103
October	18.3°C2 Oct 1954	-21.1°C30 Oct 2001	48 mm28 Oct 1945	113 mm2006 · driest 2 mm in 1929	103
November	15.6°C1 Nov 1936	-35.0°C30 Nov 1939	38 mm10 Nov 1940	108 mm2003 · driest 1 mm in 1969	103
December	9.4°C31 Dec 1936	-42.2°C31 Dec 1948	30 mm23 Dec 1970	157 mm1951 · driest 0 mm in 1935	103

Typical days per month at BETHEL AP, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	30	<1	9
February	0	28	<1	10
March	0	30	<1	9
April	0	27	<1	7
May	<1	13	<1	3
June	<1	<1	1	<1
July	1	0	2	0
August	<1	<1	3	0
September	0	5	2	<1
October	0	23	1	5
November	0	28	<1	11
December	0	30	<1	12

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was July (scoring 63); on 2011–2025 it is June (63). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in BETHEL 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%	16%	-16.5–-3.0°C
February	0%	19%	1%	21%	-14.8–-3.1°C
March	0%	17%	1%	17%	-11.3–-1.5°C
April	0%	17%	<1%	16%	-3.1–5.3°C
May	3%	21%	1%	23%	6.7–13.0°C
June	19%	27%	2%	33%	13.4–18.9°C
July	23%	37%	4%	52%	14.9–19.2°C
August	10%	46%	8%	63%	13.6–17.7°C
September	<1%	40%	5%	53%	9.4–13.2°C
October	0%	27%	3%	31%	-0.1–5.7°C
November	0%	23%	2%	26%	-10.0–-0.8°C
December	0%	20%	1%	21%	-15.5–-4.5°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.

1924Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 101-year average. Warmest: 2019. Coolest: 1939.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5880568
NOAA station: USW00026615 · BETHEL AP
Station distance: 4.1 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 60.79°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
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 BETHEL AP is what differs

Kwethluk→Akiachak→Kasigluk→Nunapitchuk→Napaskiak→Tuntutuliak→

Or put two places side by side: Bethel vs Kwethluk

Best time to visitBethel.

July

July

June

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Bethel runs +1.8°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Bethel.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Bethel runs +1.8°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.