Days of Sunshine Per Year in Alaska

Number of Sunny Days

In the table below, the average number of Sunny Days for a place in Alaska is the total days in a year when the sky is mostly clear. This includes the days when cloud covers up to 30% of the sky during daylight hours. Partly Sunny Days have cloud covering from 40% to 70% of the sky during the daytime. The rest of the days are mainly overcast, with at least 80% cloud cover. Total Days With Sun is a sum of the Sunny plus Partly Sunny days. All the numbers are annual averages, made from years of weather watching.

You can jump to a separate table for each region of the state: Southeast, South - Central, Southwest and Far North Alaska.

Southeast Alaska

Annual days of sunshine

Place	Sunny	Partly Sunny	Total Days With Sun
Annette Island	40	60	100
Juneau	44	41	85
Yakutat	41	46	87

South - Central Alaska

Days of sunshine a year

Place	Sunny	Partly Sunny	Total Days With Sun
Anchorage	61	65	126
Fairbanks	70	86	156
Gulkana	67	89	156
Homer	65	75	140
Talkeetna	67	67	134
Valdez	57	57	114

Southwest Alaska

Sunny days annually

Place	Sunny	Partly Sunny	Total Days With Sun
Bethel	62	65	127
Cold Bay	10	50	60
King Salmon	51	69	120
Kodiak	59	74	133
McGrath	67	72	139
St Paul Island	18	61	79

Far North Alaska

Number of days with sun in an average year

Place	Sunny	Partly Sunny	Total Days With Sun
Bettles	86	93	179
Kotzebue	100	72	172
Nome	91	69	160

Amount of Sun

Here's another way to look at how much sunshine a place gets. The % Sun number measures the percentage of time between sunrise and sunset that sunshine reaches the ground. Again, these amounts are yearly averages based on many years of weather observations.

Percent sunshine yearly

Place	% Sun
Anchorage	41
Juneau	30
Nome	42