Sitka, AK Weather Forecast
Sitka City and Borough, Alaska
Live radar, warnings and storm tracking for Sitka, 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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Sitka, AK at a glance
Sitka is home to about 8,282 people in Sitka City and Borough, across 2,870 square miles. It ranks 5th by population of 25 places in Alaska with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Juneau, 93 miles away.
- County
- Sitka City and Borough
- Population
- 8,282 2023 est.
- Land area
- 2,870 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 3
- Forecast point
- 57.1932°N, 135.3674°W
How well can the network see Sitka?
The nearest Doppler radar is PACG (Sitka, AK), to the SSW. Its lowest scan passes about 1,400 ft above Sitka. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Sitka show up clearly. Sitka is closer to its radar than 79% of US cities.
The closest weather station is PASI (Sitka/Gutierrez Arpt). Representative on most days, though a thunderstorm can hit one and miss the other.
Forecasts near Sitka
- Juneau, AK93 mi
- Wrangell, AK145 mi
- Ketchikan, AK190 mi
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