North Slope Borough, Alaska Climate
The warmest month is July, with an average high of 58°F; the coldest is January, with an average low of -22°F.
Temperature through the year
The normal daily high and low and the record for every date at Nuiqsut (Asos) (PAQT), since 1998. The line marks today.
- Normal low
- Normal high
- Record high
- Record low
Normals for Sep 25
- Normal high
- 35°F
- Normal low
- 26°F
- Record high
- 51°Fin 1998
- Record low
- 18°Fin 2009
- Chance of a wet day
- 44%
- Daylight
- 11 h 55 min
Month by month
Averages for 1991-2020. Wet days have at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis. Each month links to its own page.
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Record high | Record low | Precipitation | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -8°F | -22°F | 36°F (2025) | -62°F (2012) | 6.2 | |
| February | -7°F | -22°F | 38°F (2007) | -56°F (2012) | 5.7 | |
| March | -7°F | -21°F | 34°F (2019) | -53°F (1999) | 3.1 | |
| April | 10°F | -5°F | 44°F (2007) | -39°F (2013) | 6.0 | |
| May | 29°F | 19°F | 67°F (2002) | -23°F (2001) | 0.16 in | 9.3 |
| June | 50°F | 35°F | 82°F (2015) | 21°F (2000) | 0.32 in | 12.0 |
| July | 58°F | 41°F | 84°F (2025) | 29°F (2002) | 0.86 in | 12.4 |
| August | 51°F | 38°F | 88°F (2024) | 25°F (2000) | 1.04 in | 15.5 |
| September | 41°F | 31°F | 67°F (2019) | 5°F (1999) | 0.48 in | 12.0 |
| October | 25°F | 15°F | 50°F (2018) | -21°F (2005) | 9.3 | |
| November | 9°F | -5°F | 38°F (2004) | -46°F (2005) | 6.0 | |
| December | -2°F | -16°F | 36°F (2022) | -50°F (2010) | 6.2 | |
| Year | 21°F | 7°F | 104 |
Precipitation
Rain and melted snow together. The chance of a wet day is the share of days with at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.
Chance of a wet day
- Chance of a wet day
Humidity and comfort
NASA POWER reanalysis, 1991-2020, for the grid cell around North Slope Borough.
Days with a mean dew point of 65°F or more are rare here in every month.
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Dry | Comfortable | Humid | Muggy | Oppressive | Miserable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -16°F | 95% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| February | -13°F | 95% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| March | -8°F | 95% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| April | 9°F | 94% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| May | 28°F | 90% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| June | 43°F | 82% | 97% | 3% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| July | 47°F | 81% | 89% | 10% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| August | 42°F | 86% | 96% | 4% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| September | 32°F | 91% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| October | 14°F | 95% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| November | -3°F | 95% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| December | -12°F | 95% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Comfort is judged by the day's mean dew point: dry below 55°F, comfortable to 60°F, humid to 65°F, muggy to 70°F, oppressive to 75°F, miserable above.
Clouds
Average share of the sky covered, from satellite (CERES and GEWEX SRB) by way of NASA POWER, 1991-2020.
The clearest month is January, with the sky 58 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is August, at 78 percent.
Wind
The mean wind speed over the whole day, from the MERRA-2 reanalysis by way of NASA POWER. Gusts run well above it.
The windiest month is February, averaging 8.7 mph at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is May 19, with 24 h 00 min of daylight; the shortest is Jan 1, with 0 h 00 min.
- Day length
Solar energy
Average daily sunshine reaching the ground on a flat surface, in kilowatt-hours per square meter, clouds included.
How North Slope Borough is running
NOAA NCEI Climate at a Glance, from the nClimGrid analysis of every station, updated early each month. A rank of 1 is the highest or lowest of all years since 1895.
August 2026 in North Slope Borough: 47.8°F (+3.0 °F against 1991-2020), the 8th warmest in 102 years on record.
August 2026 in North Slope Borough: 2.78 in (+0.60 in against 1991-2020), the 24th wettest in 102 years on record.
January to August 2026 in North Slope Borough: 17.6°F (-1.2 °F against 1991-2020), the 35th warmest in 102 years on record.
January to August 2026 in North Slope Borough: 9.29 in (+1.40 in against 1991-2020), the 13th wettest in 102 years on record.
- Warmest August
- 51.0°F in 2004
- Coolest August
- 37.4°F in 1969
- Wettest August
- 4.62 in in 1994
- Driest August
- 0.73 in in 2008
Every year since 1925
Month pages
The weather in North Slope Borough in each month, day by day.
What this means
A normal is the average of the thirty years 1991 to 2020, the period the World Meteorological Organization and NOAA use for comparison. It is an average, not a forecast: most days depart from it, and some by a long way.
A record is the highest or lowest value on the date in every year the station has reported, back to 1998. It rests on one station, so a neighbor a few miles away can hold different ones.
Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine come from a reanalysis: a weather model run over the past with every observation fed in, averaged over a grid cell about 50 km across. It is consistent everywhere on Earth; it smooths local detail such as a lake shore or a valley.
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Sources
Records: NOAA GHCN-Daily, station USW00027515, every year on file, quality-flagged values removed. Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-25. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus. Rankings: NOAA NCEI Climate at a Glance, public domain.