Everyone wants a bit of a blissful breeze or a scoop of sunny sanctuary when looking for a place to live in Alaska.
The more sun, the more you can go outside. The more you go outside, the more you’ll feel at peace. The more you’ll feel at peace, the more you’ll enjoy where you live.
So it makes sense to try and find the places with the best weather in Alaska. We used Saturday Night Science to compare the number of sunny days, total precipitation, and the deviation from the ideal 70-degree weather for 6 places in Alaska over 14,000 people.
Grab your shades and put away your raincoat as we look at the cities with the best weather in Alaska.
327.5 sunny days · 38.1 degree average high
Located in
Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska
Fairbanks is a home rule city and the borough seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.
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327.5 sunny days · 38.1 degree average high
327.5 sunny days · 38.1 degree average high
204.5 sunny days · 48.5 degree average high
Located in
Juneau City and Borough, Alaska
The City and Borough of Juneau, commonly known as Juneau, is the capital city of Alaska. It is a unified municipality located on the Gastineau Channel in the Alaskan panhandle, and it is the second largest city in the United States by area. Juneau has been the capital of Alaska since 1906, when the government of what was then the District of Alaska was moved from Sitka as dictated by the U.S. Congress in 1900. The municipality unified on July 1, 1970, when the city of Juneau merged with the city of Douglas and the surrounding Greater Juneau Borough to form the current municipality, which is larger by area than both Rhode Island and Delaware.
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315.3 sunny days · 41.9 degree average high
Located in
Anchorage Municipality, Alaska
Anchorage is a unified home rule municipality in the U.S. state of Alaska. With an estimated 298,192 residents in 2016, it is Alaska’s most populous city and contains more than 40 percent of the state’s total population; among the 50 states, only New York has a higher percentage of residents who live in its most populous city. All together, the Anchorage metropolitan area, which combines Anchorage with the neighboring Matanuska-Susitna Borough, had a population of 401,635 in 2016, which accounts for more than half of the state’s population.
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303.9 sunny days · 44.5 degree average high
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How We Determined The Cities In Alaska With The Best Weather
To rank the most fair weather cities in Alaska, we used Saturday Night Science and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) database, to see which cities in the Last Frontier get the best weather.
We used the following criteria to find the best weather:
- Number of sunny days
- Highest average low
- Average high deviation from 70 degrees
- Least amount of rain
- Least amount of snow
We ranked each city of over 14,000 people in Alaska from best to worst on each criterion. We then averaged each ranking into a weather quality index. The city with the best index, Fairbanks, was anointed the city with the best weather in Alaska.
Before we get too far, here are the annual precipitation rates for major cities: Anchorage (19.1 inches), Juneau (77.2 inches), and Fairbanks (13.2 inches).
The cities with the best weather in Alaska are Fairbanks, Badger, College, Juneau, Anchorage, Knik-Fairview.
There’s a complete chart at the bottom.
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Detailed List Of Places With The Best Weather In Alaska
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Source: NOAA climate data. 6 Alaska cities with more than 14,000 residents.
Summary
Summary: The Cities With The Best Weather In Alaska For 2026
If you’re looking for the Alaska cities with the most sunny days, the least rain and snow, and highs closest to a perfect 70 degrees, this is an accurate list.
The cities with the best weather in Alaska are Fairbanks, Badger, College, Juneau, Anchorage, Knik-Fairview.
