This weather has a price Keeping the median Yakutat City and Borough home comfortable runs roughly $898 a year in heating and cooling alone. See where it lands in the monthly bill

30-year climate normals

Yakutat City and Borough Climate and Weather Averages

Hottest month: August

62.1°

average daily high. The coldest month is January, averaging a low of 20.4°F.

Yakutat City and Borough gets 142.03" of precipitation a year, and 38% of it falls in Aug, Sep, Oct.

Temperature through the year

Each bar spans the average daily low to the average daily high for that month.

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Precip
January	30.7°	20.4°	13.99"
February	35.9°	23.2°	10.58"
March	38.4°	24.6°	9.20"
April	46.0°	29.8°	8.36"
May	52.6°	36.4°	9.48"
June	58.1°	43.4°	4.83"
July	61.1°	48.2°	7.99"
August	62.1°	47.1°	15.06"
September	55.5°	41.2°	19.41"
October	47.6°	34.5°	18.89"
November	37.6°	26.9°	10.18"
December	34.0°	25.2°	14.06"

Rainfall by month

Precipitation is spread fairly evenly through the year here, with 38% falling in the wettest three months (Aug, Sep, Oct).

January 13.99"

February 10.58"

March 9.20"

April 8.36"

May 9.48"

June 4.83"

July 7.99"

August 15.06"

September 19.41"

October 18.89"

November 10.18"

December 14.06"

Annual total 142.03"

What this climate costs you

Degree days measure how hard a building has to work to stay comfortable. They are the reason two identical houses have very different power bills, and they are the link between the weather here and what you pay every month.

Cooling degree days How much air conditioning the climate demands 0

Heating degree days How much heating the climate demands 9,095

Approximate annual cooling cost At 28.21¢/kWh, Alaska average $0

Approximate annual electric heating cost Lower where heating is gas rather than electric $898

These are rough planning figures from degree days and the state electricity price, not a bill estimate. House size, insulation and fuel type move them a lot. See the full cost of owning a home in Yakutat City and Borough, where electricity is one line of eight.

Common questions

What is the weather like in Yakutat City and Borough?

Yakutat City and Borough averages a high of 62.1°F in August and a low of 20.4°F in January. Annual precipitation is 142.03 inches, with essentially no snow.

When is the rainy season in Yakutat City and Borough?

The wettest stretch is Aug, Sep, Oct, which accounts for 38% of the year's precipitation. Precipitation is relatively evenly distributed across the year.

How hot does it get in Yakutat City and Borough?

The average daily high in August, the hottest month, is 62.1°F. That drives 0 cooling degree days a year, which is what your air conditioning has to work against.

Does it snow in Yakutat City and Borough?

The weather station used for Yakutat City and Borough, YAKUTAT 3 SSE, AK US, reports temperature and precipitation but not snowfall, so there is no snow normal to quote here. Precipitation that falls as snow is still counted in the 142.03 inches above, measured as melted water.

Sources

Temperature, precipitation and snowfall normals: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, 1991 to 2020 Monthly Climate Normals, station YAKUTAT 3 SSE, AK US (USW00025382), 43.4 miles from the county centroid.
Heating and cooling degree days: NOAA, same station and period.
Annual figures on this page are the sum of that station's twelve monthly normals. NOAA also publishes a separately-computed annual normal, which can differ from the monthly sum by a few percent; we use the monthly series because the month-by-month breakdown above has to come from it.
Electricity price: US Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Monthly Table 5.6.A, Alaska residential average.
Wet-season share is the wettest three consecutive months as a percentage of annual precipitation, calculated from the monthly normals.