January Weather at Arctic Village Airport United States

Daily high temperatures are around -6°F, rarely falling below -29°F or exceeding 14°F. The lowest daily average high temperature is -8°F on January 18.

Daily low temperatures are around -20°F, rarely falling below -43°F or exceeding 3°F. The lowest daily average low temperature is -21°F on January 21.

For reference, on July 4, the hottest day of the year, temperatures at Arctic Village Airport typically range from 50°F to 66°F, while on January 21, the coldest day of the year, they range from -21°F to -8°F.

The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the hourly average temperatures for the quarter of the year centered on January. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the color is the average temperature for that hour and day.

Kogalym, Russia (3,215 miles away) and Tosontsengel, Mongolia (3,727 miles) are the far-away foreign places with temperatures most similar to Arctic Village Airport (view comparison).

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The month of January at Arctic Village Airport experiences essentially constant cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy remaining about 55% throughout the month.

The clearest day of the month is January 18, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 47% of the time.

For reference, on September 26, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 66%, while on March 2, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 49%.

A wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. At Arctic Village Airport, the chance of a wet day over the course of January is essentially constant, remaining around 7% throughout.

For reference, the year's highest daily chance of a wet day is 34% on July 9, and its lowest chance is 4% on March 6.

Snowfall

As with rainfall, we consider the snowfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day.

The average sliding 31-day snowfall during January at Arctic Village Airport is essentially constant, remaining about 2.7 inches throughout, and rarely exceeding 6.4 inches or falling to 0.0 inches.

Due to its extreme latitude, Arctic Village Airport experiences polar day (also known as the midnight Sun) during the summer and polar night during the winter. These are periods of time in which the sun is continuously above or below the horizon for more than one day. The precise start and end dates of polar day and night vary from year to year and depend on the precise location and elevation of the observer, and the local topography.

In the winter at Arctic Village Airport during 2024, the Sun is continuously below the horizon for 4.1 weeks, setting at 12:53 PM on December 6, and not rising again until 12:42 PM on January 4. As such, January begins the month in polar night, which ends before the month is out.

The longest day of the month is January 31, with 5 hours, 41 minutes of daylight.

The latest sunrise of the month at Arctic Village Airport is 12:42 PM on January 4 and the earliest sunrise is 2 hours, 37 minutes earlier at 10:05 AM on January 31.

The earliest sunset is 12:52 PM on January 4 and the latest sunset is 2 hours, 54 minutes later at 3:46 PM on January 31.

Daylight saving time is observed at Arctic Village Airport during 2024, but it neither starts nor ends during January, so the entire month is in daylight saving time.

The figure below presents a compact representation of the sun's elevation (the angle of the sun above the horizon) and azimuth (its compass bearing) for every hour of every day in the reporting period. The horizontal axis is the day of the year and the vertical axis is the hour of the day. For a given day and hour of that day, the background color indicates the azimuth of the sun at that moment. The black isolines are contours of constant solar elevation.

The figure below presents a compact representation of key lunar data for January 2024. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the colored areas indicate when the moon is above the horizon. The vertical gray bars (new Moons) and blue bars (full Moons) indicate key Moon phases. The label associated with each bar indicates the date and time that the phase is obtained, and the companion time labels indicate the rise and set times of the Moon for the nearest time interval in which the moon is above the horizon.

We base the humidity comfort level on the dew point, as it determines whether perspiration will evaporate from the skin, thereby cooling the body. Lower dew points feel drier and higher dew points feel more humid. Unlike temperature, which typically varies significantly between night and day, dew point tends to change more slowly, so while the temperature may drop at night, a muggy day is typically followed by a muggy night.

The chance that a given day will be muggy at Arctic Village Airport is essentially constant during January, remaining around 0% throughout.

This section discusses the wide-area hourly average wind vector (speed and direction) at 10 meters above the ground. The wind experienced at any given location is highly dependent on local topography and other factors, and instantaneous wind speed and direction vary more widely than hourly averages.

The average hourly wind speed at Arctic Village Airport is essentially constant during January, remaining within 0.2 miles per hour of 8.0 miles per hour throughout.

For reference, on January 13, the windiest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 8.2 miles per hour, while on August 30, the calmest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 6.2 miles per hour.

The highest daily average wind speed during January is 8.2 miles per hour on January 13.

The hourly average wind direction at Arctic Village Airport throughout January is predominantly from the north, with a peak proportion of 48% on January 22.

Definitions of the growing season vary throughout the world, but for the purposes of this report, we define it as the longest continuous period of non-freezing temperatures (≥ 32°F) in the year (the calendar year in the Northern Hemisphere, or from July 1 until June 30 in the Southern Hemisphere).

The growing season at Arctic Village Airport typically lasts for 2.9 months (87 days), from around May 28 to around August 23, rarely starting before May 11 or after June 14, and rarely ending before August 6 or after September 10.

The month of January at Arctic Village Airport is reliably fully outside of the growing season.

Growing degree days are a measure of yearly heat accumulation used to predict plant and animal development, and defined as the integral of warmth above a base temperature, discarding any excess above a maximum temperature. In this report, we use a base of 50°F and a cap of 86°F.

The average accumulated growing degree days at Arctic Village Airport are essentially constant during January, remaining around 0°F throughout.

This section discusses the total daily incident shortwave solar energy reaching the surface of the ground over a wide area, taking full account of seasonal variations in the length of the day, the elevation of the Sun above the horizon, and absorption by clouds and other atmospheric constituents. Shortwave radiation includes visible light and ultraviolet radiation.

The average daily incident shortwave solar energy at Arctic Village Airport is essentially constant during January, remaining within 0.1 kWh of 0.1 kWh throughout.

For the purposes of this report, the geographical coordinates of Arctic Village Airport are 68.116 deg latitude, -145.573 deg longitude, and 2,051 ft elevation.

The topography within 2 miles of Arctic Village Airport contains only modest variations in elevation, with a maximum elevation change of 226 feet and an average elevation above sea level of 2,063 feet. Within 10 miles contains only modest variations in elevation (3,212 feet). Within 50 miles contains large variations in elevation (6,391 feet).

The area within 2 miles of Arctic Village Airport is covered by grassland (65%) and shrubs (21%), within 10 miles by grassland (63%) and shrubs (27%), and within 50 miles by grassland (38%) and shrubs (24%).