Bethel, AK Weather Forecast
Bethel Census Area, Alaska
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The next few hours
A dry overnight, mostly cloudy
It is 21°, but the wind is taking it down to 9° on exposed skin. The sky is mostly cloudy.
The wind backs into the west around 1 AM, which is the turn that usually comes ahead of the change rather than after it. Nothing in the next day and a half is wet enough to move plans for.
Taller, warmer bars mean heavier rain. Dotted means no reading for that hour.
Hour by hour
Quiet through the next day and a half
Nothing wet is expected over the next day and a half.
The overnight low settles near 20°. Tomorrow tops out near 24°.
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
16–28°F across the weekThe week runs between 16° and 25°, with Thursday the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Every day in the outlook stays dry.
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Bethel, AK at a glance
Bethel is home to about 6,292 people in Bethel Census Area, across 44 square miles. It ranks 9th by population of 25 places in Alaska with a forecast here. The nearest neighbour with its own forecast is Dillingham, 165 miles away.
- County
- Bethel Census Area
- Population
- 6,292 2023 est.
- Land area
- 44 sq mi
- People per sq mi
- 141
- Forecast point
- 60.7939°N, 161.7961°W
How well can the network see Bethel?
The nearest Doppler radar is PABC (Bethel, AK), to the W. Its lowest scan passes about 130 ft above Bethel. That is about as close as US radar coverage gets: low-level rotation and gust fronts over Bethel show up clearly. Bethel is closer to its radar than 99% of US cities.
The closest weather station is PABE (Bethel Arpt). Close enough that its readings are the conditions in town.
Forecasts near Bethel
- Dillingham, AK165 mi
- Nome, AK281 mi
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