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Anchorage, AK 61.169°N, 150.028°W · station ANCthr · 74 years of record
48°F
COLDEST JUL 17 SINCE 1986
forecast low · Jul 17
NWS NDFD forecast low temperature for Anchorage.
50° TUE 7/14 50° WED 7/15 49° THU 7/16 48° FRI 7/17 49° SAT 7/18 49° SUN 7/19 This Day in History · Jul 17
Today ranks #7 / 72
coldest Jul 17 in 72 yrs of record
Coldest Jul 17 ever 41°F
set in 1955
Mildest Jul 17 ever 58°F
set in 1984
Coldest Jul 17 — Year by Year
Every year's low on Jul 17 at Anchorage. The forecast line shows where today lands; the ringed bar is the coldest on record.
41 50 58 1954: 52°F 1955: 41°F 1956: 52°F 1957: 55°F 1958: 50°F 1959: 45°F 1960: 51°F 1961: 52°F 1962: 53°F 1963: 50°F 1964: 46°F 1965: 53°F 1966: 48°F 1967: 52°F 1968: 51°F 1969: 49°F 1970: 46°F 1971: 54°F 1972: 47°F 1973: 55°F 1974: 49°F 1975: 54°F 1976: 54°F 1977: 54°F 1978: 49°F 1979: 55°F 1980: 52°F 1981: 55°F 1982: 48°F 1983: 51°F 1984: 58°F 1985: 54°F 1986: 46°F 1987: 52°F 1988: 58°F 1989: 57°F 1990: 51°F 1991: 48°F 1992: 55°F 1993: 55°F 1994: 49°F 1995: 55°F 1996: 52°F 1997: 52°F 1998: 53°F 1999: 51°F 2000: 53°F 2001: 56°F 2002: 52°F 2003: 55°F 2004: 52°F 2005: 54°F 2006: 51°F 2007: 56°F 2008: 54°F 2009: 56°F 2010: 49°F 2011: 54°F 2012: 50°F 2013: 55°F 2014: 56°F 2015: 56°F 2016: 57°F 2017: 56°F 2018: 52°F 2019: 55°F 2020: 53°F 2021: 58°F 2022: 53°F 2023: 54°F 2024: 51°F 2025: 54°F 48° forecast 1954 1955 2025 Forecast low · Jul 17 48°F Coldest this date since 1986 This-date record 41°F This-date rank #7 of 72
Coldest at any time since 2026 All-time record -34°F (1975) Odds to tie/break 0.0% (daily) Period of record 1953–2026
The hottest and coldest ever recorded at Anchorage in each calendar month, and for the whole 1953–2026 record — with the year each was set.
Month Record High Record Low Jan 50°F 1961 -34°F 1975 Feb 49°F 2014 -28°F 1999 Mar 53°F 2016 -24°F 1971 Apr 69°F 2005 -4°F 1985 May 77°F 1969 17°F 1964 Jun 85°F 1969 33°F 1961 Jul 90°F 2019 36°F 1964 Aug 82°F 1968 31°F 1984 Sep 73°F 1957 19°F 1992 Oct 64°F 2006 -5°F 1956 Nov 54°F 2002 -21°F 1956 Dec 51°F 2019 -30°F 1961 All-time 90°F 2019 -34°F 1975
Records set or tied at Anchorage so far this year — through Jul 11.
Record Highs in 2026 1 broke
plus 1 tied — daily record highs set this year
Record Lows in 2026 1 broke
plus 0 tied — daily record lows set this year
Current run 0 days
consecutive days with a low ≤ 32°F
Longest ever 199 days
record run, ended Apr 22 1956
So far in 2026 111 days
days with a low ≤ 32°F this year
Normal low & low by month, from Anchorage's own 1991–2020 record. Today's normal low: 53°F · forecast is -5° vs normal .
Jan: 23°F Jan: 11°F Feb: 28°F Feb: 15°F Mar: 33°F Mar: 19°F Apr: 45°F Apr: 30°F May: 56°F May: 40°F Jun: 64°F Jun: 48°F Jul: 66°F Jul: 53°F Aug: 64°F Aug: 51°F Sep: 56°F Sep: 43°F Oct: 42°F Oct: 31°F Nov: 29°F Nov: 18°F Dec: 25°F Dec: 14°F J F M A M J J A S O N D Sun & Daylight Today Sunrise 2:48 AM Sunset 9:23 PM Solar noon 12:05 PM Daylight 18h 34m · losing 24 min/wk
Local standard time (no DST), level horizon.
Location 61.17°N, 150.03°W Alaska Anchorage's observed daily low for the last six weeks — a white ring marks any day that broke or tied its daily record for that date.
Every day this year against Anchorage's own record — the record low, the normal, and the full span ever seen. A shareable look at where the year stands.
Each cell is one day's low at Anchorage, coloured by temperature — 74 years of record, so heat waves read as warm streaks and cold snaps as blue.
How many days a year hit a given low at Anchorage — counted through Jul 17 each year, so you can see whether 2026 is running cold. Pick a threshold:
40° 32° 20° 10° 0° -10° -20°
111 days ≤32°F so far in 2026 — tied for the 34th most in 74 years. Normal for this point: 109 . Record: 131 in 1964.
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