The Anchorage plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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50° on Nov. 13, 1967, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1952. Next is 47° in 1979.
Anchorage’s center stands about 110 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 250 ft, a difference of 250 ft: rolling country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Tanaina Peak, about 5,250 ft, 14 miles east-southeast.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 11×.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR.
Anchorage has a dry-summer subarctic climate. Summer afternoons average 66° in July; winter nights fall to about 11° in January. A normal year brings about 78 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 16 inches of water.
On November 14 Anchorage normally reaches 29° and falls to 18°. The record high is 45°, in 1961; the record low −8°, in 1973. The most rain on this date, 0.37 in, fell in 1965.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1953 from the Anchorage Area threaded record (Anchorage Ted Stevens International Airport, 5 miles southwest). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
