Anchorage, AK Weather Forecast
Anchorage Municipality, Alaska
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Anchorage, with free alerts the moment it counts.
The next few hours
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Sunrise and sunset
Next five days, scored 0 to 100The first day or two use the HRRR and NBM cloud layers. Later days only have total cloud, so treat them as a rough guide.
Know when sunset at this place will be worth a photo
We score every sunrise and sunset here from the cloud, haze and smoke forecast, and let you know when one is likely to light up. Sunrise the evening before, sunset a few hours ahead.
Seven-day outlook
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Anchorage, AK at a glance
Anchorage is home to about 286,075 people in Anchorage Municipality, across 1,707 square miles. It is the largest of 25 places in Alaska with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Wasilla, 29 miles away.
- County
- Anchorage Municipality
- Population
- 286,075 2023 est.
- Land area
- 1,707 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 168
- Forecast point
- 61.1743°N, 149.2843°W
How well can the network see Anchorage?
The nearest Doppler radar is PAHG (Anchorage, AK), to the WSW. Its lowest scan passes about 6,400 ft above Anchorage. The beam is above the lowest few thousand feet here, so a warning for Anchorage can come before anything looks dramatic on radar.
The closest weather station is PAFR (Ft Richardson/Bryant AAF). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Anchorage
- Wasilla, AK29 mi
- Palmer, AK30 mi
- Houston, AK35 mi
- Seward, AK73 mi
- Soldotna, AK77 mi
- Kenai, AK77 mi
- Valdez, AK99 mi
- Homer, AK130 mi
Elsewhere in Alaska
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