Personal blog about states
January
Upcoming 5 hours
Now | 3:00 am | 6:00 am |
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18 °F | 18 °F | 19 °F |
Our weather can change rather quickly. Alaskans will always tell you to dress in layers and pack light raingear, just in case. Current Alaska Weather .
Location | Anchorage |
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Current Temp. | 20°F |
Humidity | 77% |
Current Conditions | Mostly Cloudy |
Pressure | 28.84 |
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The warmest month (with the highest average high temperature) is July (65.4°F). The month with the lowest average high temperature is January (22.7°F). The month with the highest average low temperature is July (51.3°F).
Anchorage is a good place to live if you like winter. Livability.com rated Alaska’s largest city as America’s best to live in during the winter. The same website rated Anchorage 91st overall for livability among U.S. towns. Of course, another list by the website Areavibes rated Anchorage as ninth worst.
Residential Leasing in Alaska As of 2016, renting an apartment in Anchorage area costs an average of $1,135 per month. Kenai, a small town, is somewhat cheaper, with an average rent of $888 per month for all apartment types.
Even though it is the largest state in the US, Alaska’s population is sparse. With 24- hour daylight during the summer months and 24- hour darkness during the winter, many people find Alaska to be a strange and mysterious place.
#4 Anchorage , Alaska’s largest city, is also its least safe . Alaska’s Safest Cities.
City | Anchorage |
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Crime rate per 1,000 | 62.37 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 | 13.10 |
Property crimes per 1,000 | 49.28 |
Law enforcement per 1,000 | 1.97 |
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Alaska Weather Myths Myth: Summers in Alaska are always cool. Fact: The Interior Region of Alaska enjoys warm summers. Fairbanks often has summer temperatures in the 80s and occasionally gets up into the 90s. Myth: Arctic Alaska (Utqiagvik (Barrow), Prudhoe Bay, Kaktovik) is the coldest part of the state.
Alaska is cold , very cold . Alaska has the coldest winters, the coldest summers, the longest winter, the most freezing degree days, and on and on. Temperatures in the -30°s and -40°s are a near daily occurrence from November through March in the interior portion of the state. There is a very simple reason for this.
Alaska runs a program called the Alaska Permanent Fund, which, per the state website, allots an equal amount of the state’s oil royalties to every resident through an annual dividend. In 2018, that dividend came out to $1,600 per person.
That’s how he ended up in Yakutsk, Russia. The capital city of the vast (1.2 million square miles) Siberian region known as the Sakha Republic, Yakutsk is widely identified as the world’s coldest city . “No other place on Earth experiences this temperature extreme,” Iuncker says.
As far as rent goes, Alaska is ever so slightly cheaper than the U.S. as a whole. According to Apartment List’s 2019 report, the median rent for a studio and one bedroom apartment in Alaska is $17 and $21 cheaper than the national median, respectively. The state is mostly made up of homeowners, though.
Anchorage cost of living is 123.5
COST OF LIVING | Anchorage | Alaska |
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Median Home Cost | $334,300 | $310,600 |
Utilities | 108.1 | 169.8 |
Transportation | 104.6 | 98.2 |
Miscellaneous | 123.1 | 119.5 |
When is the best month to visit Alaska? You can’t go wrong visiting Alaska anytime between May 10 and September 15. The days are long, nature is in full bloom, and the air is alive with energy. But, for the absolute best time to visit Alaska, shoot for June 15 to July 15.