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Anchorage, AK 61.169°N, 150.028°W · station ANCthr · 74 years of record
63°F
HOTTEST JUL 18 SINCE 2025
forecast high · Jul 18
NWS NDFD forecast high temperature for Anchorage.
56° MON 7/13 62° TUE 7/14 62° WED 7/15 60° THU 7/16 61° FRI 7/17 63° SAT 7/18 62° SUN 7/19 This Day in History · Jul 18
Today ranks #48 / 72
warmest Jul 18 in 72 yrs of record
Hottest Jul 18 ever 81°F
set in 2021
Coolest Jul 18 ever 54°F
set in 1970
Hottest Jul 18 — Year by Year
Every year's high on Jul 18 at Anchorage. The forecast line shows where today lands; the ringed bar is the hottest on record.
54 68 81 1954: 70°F 1955: 68°F 1956: 57°F 1957: 57°F 1958: 63°F 1959: 61°F 1960: 68°F 1961: 67°F 1962: 74°F 1963: 62°F 1964: 68°F 1965: 56°F 1966: 72°F 1967: 66°F 1968: 69°F 1969: 63°F 1970: 54°F 1971: 59°F 1972: 61°F 1973: 67°F 1974: 73°F 1975: 67°F 1976: 63°F 1977: 75°F 1978: 70°F 1979: 65°F 1980: 67°F 1981: 64°F 1982: 60°F 1983: 62°F 1984: 61°F 1985: 69°F 1986: 71°F 1987: 60°F 1988: 63°F 1989: 79°F 1990: 75°F 1991: 63°F 1992: 63°F 1993: 66°F 1994: 65°F 1995: 71°F 1996: 73°F 1997: 70°F 1998: 65°F 1999: 55°F 2000: 59°F 2001: 70°F 2002: 65°F 2003: 72°F 2004: 68°F 2005: 63°F 2006: 64°F 2007: 66°F 2008: 57°F 2009: 71°F 2010: 59°F 2011: 67°F 2012: 67°F 2013: 73°F 2014: 66°F 2015: 69°F 2016: 76°F 2017: 62°F 2018: 70°F 2019: 77°F 2020: 65°F 2021: 81°F 2022: 67°F 2023: 71°F 2024: 61°F 2025: 67°F 63° forecast 1954 2021 2025 Forecast high · Jul 18 63°F Hottest this date since 2025 This-date record 81°F This-date rank #48 of 72
Hottest at any time since 2026 All-time record 90°F (2019) Odds to tie/break 0.0% (daily) Period of record 1953–2026
The hottest and coldest ever recorded at Anchorage in each calendar month, and for the whole 1953–2026 record — with the year each was set.
Month Record High Record Low Jan 50°F 1961 -34°F 1975 Feb 49°F 2014 -28°F 1999 Mar 53°F 2016 -24°F 1971 Apr 69°F 2005 -4°F 1985 May 77°F 1969 17°F 1964 Jun 85°F 1969 33°F 1961 Jul 90°F 2019 36°F 1964 Aug 82°F 1968 31°F 1984 Sep 73°F 1957 19°F 1992 Oct 64°F 2006 -5°F 1956 Nov 54°F 2002 -21°F 1956 Dec 51°F 2019 -30°F 1961 All-time 90°F 2019 -34°F 1975
Records set or tied at Anchorage so far this year — through Jul 11.
Record Highs in 2026 1 broke
plus 1 tied — daily record highs set this year
Record Lows in 2026 1 broke
plus 0 tied — daily record lows set this year
Current run 0 days
consecutive days with a high ≥ 90°F
Longest ever 1 days
record run, ended Jul 4 2019
So far in 2026 0 days
days with a high ≥ 90°F this year
Normal high & low by month, from Anchorage's own 1991–2020 record. Today's normal high: 66°F · forecast is -3° vs normal .
Jan: 23°F Jan: 11°F Feb: 28°F Feb: 15°F Mar: 33°F Mar: 19°F Apr: 45°F Apr: 30°F May: 56°F May: 40°F Jun: 64°F Jun: 48°F Jul: 66°F Jul: 53°F Aug: 64°F Aug: 51°F Sep: 56°F Sep: 43°F Oct: 42°F Oct: 31°F Nov: 29°F Nov: 18°F Dec: 25°F Dec: 14°F J F M A M J J A S O N D Sun & Daylight Today Sunrise 2:48 AM Sunset 9:23 PM Solar noon 12:05 PM Daylight 18h 34m · losing 24 min/wk
Local standard time (no DST), level horizon.
Location 61.17°N, 150.03°W Alaska Anchorage's observed daily high for the last six weeks — a white ring marks any day that broke or tied its daily record for that date.
Every day this year against Anchorage's own record — the record high, the normal, and the full span ever seen. A shareable look at where the year stands.
Each cell is one day's high at Anchorage, coloured by temperature — 74 years of record, so heat waves read as warm streaks and cold snaps as blue.
How many days a year hit a given high at Anchorage — counted through Jul 18 each year, so you can see whether 2026 is running hot. Pick a threshold:
70° 75° 80° 85° 90° 95° 100° 105° 110°
No days ≥90°F yet in 2026. Normal for this point: 0 . Record: 1 in 2019.
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