United States · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Elmendorf Air Force Base.

July leads for comfortable weather in Elmendorf Air Force Base: typically 19.2°C by day, 10.3°C at night, with 49 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high19.2°C

Typical low10.3°C

Rain in July49 mm

Comfort

July

July · June · August

69climate match

Beach

July

July · June · August

32climate match

Outdoors

July

July · June · August

88climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 69 — days reach only -6.1°C, 30° 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

5-6.1° / -13.5°

Feb

5-2.3° / -10.9°

Mar

50.6° / -9.5°

Apr

157.7° / -2.2°

May

4413.8° / 3.3°

Jun

6417.8° / 7.8°

Jul

6919.2° / 10.3°

Aug

5918° / 9°

Sep

3313° / 4.5°

Oct

55.6° / -2.1°

Nov

5-2.3° / -9.4°

Dec

5-4.3° / -11.8°

Monthly climate evidence for Elmendorf Air Force Base — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 30 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-6.1°C	-13.5°C	18 mm	5.2	-0.7°C	6 h 18	5	Good coverage
February	-2.3°C	-10.9°C	22 mm	5.5	-0.8°C	8 h 50	5	Strong coverage
March	0.6°C	-9.5°C	18 mm	4.1	-0.7°C	11 h 31	5	Strong coverage
April	7.7°C	-2.2°C	8 mm	1.7	0.2°C	14 h 34	15	Strong coverage
May	13.8°C	3.3°C	18 mm	4.1	2.4°C	17 h 24	44	Strong coverage
June	17.8°C	7.8°C	28 mm	5.7	8.8°C	19 h 19	64	Strong coverage
July	19.2°C	10.3°C	49 mm	8.9	12.6°C	18 h 30	69	Strong coverage
August	18°C	9°C	65 mm	10.4	13.8°C	15 h 50	59	Strong coverage
September	13°C	4.5°C	70 mm	10.6	12.1°C	12 h 48	33	Strong coverage
October	5.6°C	-2.1°C	45 mm	7.6	8.2°C	9 h 53	5	Strong coverage
November	-2.3°C	-9.4°C	32 mm	6.3	4.2°C	7 h 06	5	Strong coverage
December	-4.3°C	-11.8°C	39 mm	6.7	0.0°C	5 h 29	5	Strong coverage

Records at FT RICHARDSON WTP, 1990–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	13.3°C15 Jan 2009	-30.6°C8 Jan 1997	19 mm19 Jan 2021	49 mm2026 · driest 2 mm in 1994	31
February	11.1°C2 Feb 2007	-33.9°C5 Feb 1999	23 mm6 Feb 1993	58 mm1996 · driest 0 mm in 2025	35
March	12.8°C21 Mar 1998	-27.2°C5 Mar 1992	23 mm17 Mar 2002	73 mm1994 · driest 0 mm in 1998	35
April	21.1°C29 Apr 2005	-20.6°C1 Apr 2004	23 mm26 Apr 2008	45 mm2008 · driest 0 mm in 1993	33
May	26.1°C28 May 2010	-6.7°C4 May 1992	23 mm18 May 2013	43 mm2013 · driest 1 mm in 2010	34
June	29.4°C18 Jun 2013	0.6°C5 Jun 2006	28 mm24 Jun 1995	91 mm2014 · driest 6 mm in 1993	35
July	30.6°C9 Jul 2019	4.4°C1 Jul 2008	34 mm11 Jul 1991	108 mm2022 · driest 5 mm in 1990	31
August	28.9°C18 Aug 2004	-0.6°C29 Aug 2015	81 mm11 Aug 2016	153 mm2022 · driest 2 mm in 2019	35
September	21.1°C22 Sep 2000	-8.9°C22 Sep 1992	37 mm1 Sep 1997	162 mm2012 · driest 21 mm in 2010	34
October	18.3°C10 Oct 2006	-19.4°C26 Oct 1996	34 mm27 Oct 1992	100 mm2002 · driest 8 mm in 2005	33
November	12.8°C26 Nov 2002	-27.8°C30 Nov 1990	36 mm20 Nov 1994	117 mm1994 · driest 0 mm in 2006	32
December	11.7°C22 Dec 1999	-27.8°C15 Dec 2001	56 mm3 Dec 2016	126 mm2016 · driest 0 mm in 1995	32

Typical days per month at FT RICHARDSON WTP, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	30	0	5
February	0	27	<1	5
March	0	30	<1	4
April	0	21	<1	1
May	<1	4	<1	<1
June	1	0	<1	0
July	2	0	1	0
August	1	<1	2	0
September	0	4	2	0
October	0	20	1	2
November	0	28	<1	5
December	0	30	<1	7

How often, not how much — every day in FT RICHARDSON WTP’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%	18%	<1%	14%	-9.9–-1.6°C
February	0%	21%	1%	18%	-5.4–1.2°C
March	0%	14%	1%	8%	-2.6–3.6°C
April	<1%	7%	<1%	3%	5.8–8.9°C
May	8%	15%	<1%	11%	11.6–15.5°C
June	27%	20%	2%	17%	15.9–19.6°C
July	34%	29%	4%	37%	17.3–20.8°C
August	22%	36%	6%	44%	16.1–19.5°C
September	1%	38%	7%	49%	11.4–14.3°C
October	0%	26%	4%	24%	2.2–8.3°C
November	0%	19%	2%	18%	-7.9–1.6°C
December	0%	21%	3%	18%	-7.7–-0.9°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.

1991Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 22-year average. Warmest: 2016. Coolest: 1996.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 8605012
NOAA station: USC00503163 · FT RICHARDSON WTP
Station distance: 3.5 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 23 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 61.26°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 30 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 FT RICHARDSON WTP is what differs

Fort Richardson→Homesite Park→

Or put two places side by side: Elmendorf Air Force Base vs Fort Richardson

Best time to visitElmendorf Air Force Base.

July

July

July

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Elmendorf Air Force Base.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.