First snow · Alaska
When is the first snow in Anchorage?
Anchorage right now
25°FFog
- Today28°F / 25°FClouds and snow
- Tomorrow30°F / 27°FClouds and snow
- Monday34°F / 30°FClouds
Nothing, apparently.
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Snow in the next 5 days?
Yes. Snow is in the Anchorage forecast for today.
Live 5-day forecast and current temperature from OpenWeatherMap, refreshed about every half hour. Winter warnings from the National Weather Service.
Anchorage’s first measurable snow usually lands around October 17.
Anchorage files the first snow under “obviously” and goes back to its coffee.
Snow’s coming. Heads-up or surprise?
Tomorrow’s roast for AnchorageFree, no account, and you pick how rude I get.Cities on the same snow schedule
Anchorage is number 6 of 76 for the earliest first snow. Is your city earlier?
- Billings, Montana: around October 14
- Denver, Colorado: around October 21
- Duluth, Minnesota: around October 24
The fastest way back here when the snow gets close.
In 8 winters out of 10 it arrives between September 29 and November 8. A typical Anchorage winter adds up to about 78 inches of snow.
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How much snow Anchorage gets in a year
Source: NOAA daily snowfall records for the Anchorage area, winters 1991 to 2020 (30 with complete records), via the Applied Climate Information System. First snow here means the first day with at least a tenth of an inch.