Average Precipitation for Alaska in January

The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall plus snowfall during January at communities and other locations around Alaska.

Each place has a total for the amount of precipitation it usually receives this month. There is also a count of the number of days with wet weather, when precipitation amounts to 0.01 inches (0.25 millimetres) or more.

The precipitation totals are averages based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020 for the US National Centers for Environmental Information.

You can jump to a separate table for each region of the state: Southeast, South - Central, Southwest, Interior and Far North Alaska.

Southeast Alaska

Average monthly precipitation in January
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
22	Annette Island	10.4	265
20	Haines	7.0	178
20	Juneau	6.0	153
22	Ketchikan	16.2	411
21	Sitka	8.2	209
13	Skagway	2.2	55
21	Yakutat	12.4	315

South - Central Alaska

January averages for total rainfall plus snowfall
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
8	Anchorage	0.8	19
8	Gulkana	0.7	19
14	Homer	2.2	55
14	Seward	6.5	164
9	Talkeetna	1.3	34
16	Valdez	6.6	167

Southwest Alaska

Average amount of rain and snow in January
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
9	Bethel	0.8	20
21	Cold Bay	3.4	86
10	King Salmon	0.9	24
19	Kodiak	8.4	212
10	McGrath	1.2	29
8	Port Alsworth	0.7	18
17	St Paul Island	1.6	41

Interior Alaska

Precipitation totals for January
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
9	Fairbanks	0.6	15
8	McKinley Park	0.6	15
5	Tanana	0.4	10
3	Tok	0.4	11

Far North Alaska

Total precipitation during January
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
5	Barrow	0.1	4
9	Bettles	0.9	22
9	Kotzebue	0.6	16
10	Nome	0.9	24