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Skwentna in January

Cold and wet, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

January in Skwentna is cold: highs near 19°F, lows near 8°F. Rain or snow falls on about three days a week, and the days lengthen by 1 hour 20 minutes from the first week to the last.January in Skwentna is cold: highs near -7°C, lows near -13°C. Rain or snow falls on about three days a week, and the days lengthen by 1 hour 20 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
19°F-7°Caverage
Low
8°F-13°Caverage
Wet days
3a week · 45% of days
Daylight
6h 22mon average

Is January a good time to visit Skwentna?

January sits outside Skwentna's best months, which run from July. Expect cold days and rain or snow on about three days a week.

How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 70°F to 80°F, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 21°C to 27°C, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.

How January sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Highs near 19°F in January, against 19°F to 66°F through the year.Highs near -7°C in January, against -7°C to 19°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

45% of days in January, against 37% to 66% through the year.

Cloud cover

55% cover in January, against 52% to 65% through the year.

Daylight

6h 22m in January, against 5h 28m to 19h 21m through the year.

Week by week, lightly smoothed, with January shaded. The olive line marks the best months. Hover or tap a week for its figures.

Either side

  1. December21°-6°low 10°low -12°4 wet days a weekRain on about four days a week.
  2. January19°-7°low 8°low -13°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.
  3. February23°-5°low 11°low -12°4 wet days a weekRain on about four days a week.

Where Skwentna sits, in January

America/Anchorage
this place
typical high in January 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-January
10:08 AMsets 4:21 PM
Above the sea
300 mlow-lying
Latitude
61.6°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Seward233 km south

The land around Skwentna, shaded by its typical high in January, the planning map's own layer. Hover the map for the figure at that spot; tap it on a phone. Clock times are local, for the 15th.

Elsewhere in United States in January

high · low · wet days
See January on the planning mapThe whole year in Skwentna

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Skwentna. Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 3.1°F cold in the source data and are raised to match, and both highs and lows are adjusted for the town's height (300 m) against the climate model's (375 m).Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 1.7°C cold in the source data and are raised to match, and both highs and lows are adjusted for the town's height (300 m) against the climate model's (375 m). Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not. Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.

Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not.

Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.