Ketchikan, AK Weather Forecast
Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska
Seven-day outlook
32–46°F across the weekThe week runs between 32° and 45°, with Tuesday the warmest day of it. There is no real trend across it: one day looks much like the next. Sunday is the wettest day, peaking near 91%. 4 of the 7 days stay dry.
Forecasts come from the National Weather Service's own computer models, and current conditions from the nearest reporting weather station. Both are served through the weather API. A forecast is guidance, not a warning, and anything the Weather Service has actually issued is on the live map.
The written summaries on this page are generated from the forecast data above, not by a meteorologist. Each sentence is a reading of the same numbers you can see, and no forecaster has reviewed them.
About the Ketchikan forecast
Ketchikan sits at 55.3571°N, 131.6746°W in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska. The forecast above is drawn for that point from the National Weather Service's own computer models: a seven-day outlook, and a finer-grained one covering the next eighteen hours where it reaches, and the radar and alert panels show what the Weather Service has out over the area right now.
- County
- Ketchikan Gateway Borough
- Coordinates
- 55.3571°N, 131.6746°W
- Population
- 8,079 · 2023 estimate
- Land area
- 3.815 sq mi
Place data from the US Census Bureau. Coordinates are the Census internal point for Ketchikan, and the forecast is for that location, not for every address inside the city limits, and a large city can have real weather differences from one side to the other.
How well can the network see Ketchikan?
The nearest WSR-88D is PACG (Sitka, AK), 181 miles to the NW, beyond the roughly 150-mile range over which one is any use. By the time the lowest scan reaches Ketchikan its center is around 24,700 ft up, well above the weather. In practice Ketchikan has no radar coverage: what reaches you is satellite, surface reports and the forecaster's judgment, and a warning here is built from those rather than from a velocity couplet someone watched spin up.
The closest instrument actually measuring the air is PAKT · Ketchikan Intl on the ASOS/AWOS network, 1.9 miles away. Close enough that its readings are, for practical purposes, the conditions in town.
Beam height is the standard 4/3-earth approximation for the 0.5° scan and assumes normal refraction; it is where the center of the beam is, not its edges, and unusual temperature profiles bend it. Radar siting from the NWS WSR-88D network, station positions from the Alaska observing network as of this build.
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