North Pole, AK Weather Forecast
Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for North Pole, 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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North Pole, AK at a glance
North Pole is home to about 2,427 people in Fairbanks North Star Borough, across 4.1 square miles. It ranks 20th by population of 25 places in Alaska with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Fairbanks, 10 miles away.
- County
- Fairbanks North Star Borough
- Population
- 2,427 2023 est.
- Land area
- 4.1 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 594
- Forecast point
- 64.7527°N, 147.3627°W
How well can the network see North Pole?
The nearest Doppler radar is PAPD (Fairbanks, AK), to the NNW. Its lowest scan passes about 1,100 ft above North Pole. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over North Pole show up clearly. North Pole is closer to its radar than 85% of US cities.
The closest weather station is PAFB (Fairbanks/Ladd AAF). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near North Pole
- Fairbanks, AK10 mi
- Palmer, AK225 mi
- Wasilla, AK229 mi
- Houston, AK230 mi
- Anchorage, AK254 mi
- Valdez, AK256 mi
- Cordova, AK297 mi
- Kenai, AK314 mi
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