Bettles, AK: December

31 December 2025: December 2025 averaged -24.2°F in Bettles, AK, the coldest December since 1980, 6th coldest of 81.

December 2025

Mean temperature: -24.2°F; Coldest since 1980; 6th coldest of 81
Precipitation: a trace; Driest on record; Driest of 82, provisional

A normal December in Bettles, AK (1991 to 2020): a mean temperature of -7.1°F, between -13.5°F and 2.5°F in eight years of ten and 0.84 in of precipitation, between 0.47 in and 2.14 in in eight years of ten.

The mean temperature of every December in Bettles, AK since 1945: -24.2°F in 2025; the lowest is -29.7°F, in 1956.

Normal range, -13.5 to 2.5°F

Every year, ranked, as a table

Every December in Bettles, AK from 1944 to 2025, ranked: the mean temperature, the mean high and the mean low from the warmest, the precipitation from the wettest; a year missing more than a tenth of its days is not ranked.

Year	Mean, °F	Rank	High, °F	Rank	Low, °F	Rank	Precipitation, in	Rank	Days missing
2025	-24.2	76	-16.1	76	-32.4	76	trace	82	0
2024	1.8	11	10.2	10	-6.5	12	0.75	46	0
2023	-4.4	26	4	26	-13.5	31	1.01	27	1
2022	-6.1	34	2.3	29	-14.5	36	0.56	57	0
2021	-7.6	40	1	37	-16.3	43	3.61	1	0
2020	1.5	13	9.7	12	-6.6	13	0.94	35	0
2019	-12.9	58	-3.8	56	-22	62	0.98	31	0
2018	-0.9	19	7.3	19	-9	20	3.50	2	0
2017	10.7	1	16.8	2	4.6	1	2.03	5	0
2016	-6.8	36	-0.1	43	-13.5	31	1.48	11	0
2015	-8	43	0.3	41	-16.3	43	0.83	38	0
2014	3.8	8	10.8	7	-3.1	8	1.59	10	0
2013	-10.2	51	-1.3	47	-19	52	0.55	58	0
2012	-15.7	65	-7.2	64	-24.2	65	0.30	70	0
2011	-1.8	21	6.4	20	-9.9	22	3.41	3	0
2010	-21.4	73	-13.7	73	-29.1	73	0.47	62	0
2009	-5	28	3.5	27	-13.5	31	1.21	19	0
2008	-11.4	53	-2.9	53	-19.8	56	0.68	51	0
2007	-5.6	32	2.1	30	-13.3	29	0.76	44	0
2006	-1.9	22	6.1	22	-9.9	22	0.76	44	0
2005	3.9	7	10.4	8	-2.6	7	1.37	17	0
2004	-7.9	42	1.9	34	-17.7	49	1.68	7	0
2003	-9.7	50	-0.9	46	-18.4	51	0.95	33	0
2002	2.4	10	8.9	14	-4.2	10	0.84	37	0
2001	-8	43	0.9	38	-16.9	48	0.47	62	0
2000	0.4	17	10.3	9	-9.5	21	0.47	62	0
1999	-16.5	66	-7.9	65	-25.1	67	0.71	49	0
1998	-5.2	30	2.4	28	-12.9	28	0.78	41	0
1997	-4.9	27	2	31	-11.7	26	0.77	43	0
1996	-9	47	-2.7	52	-15.3	39	0.78	41	0
1995	-11.5	55	-3.4	55	-19.6	55	0.12	81	0
1994	-10.3	52	-2.9	53	-17.7	49	1.21	19	0
1993	1.8	11	7.6	18	-4	9	0.88	36	0
1992	-13.2	60	-4.9	58	-21.4	60	3.09	4	0
1991	-7.4	38	0.7	39	-15.6	40	0.66	52	0
1990	-14.5	62	-6.9	63	-22.1	63	1.01	27	0
1989	0.7	15	8.5	15	-7.1	16	1.01	27	0
1988	0.5	16	7.9	16	-7	15	1.15	22	0
1987	-5.1	29	2	31	-12.2	27	1.46	14	0
1986	5.3	6	11.8	5	-1.2	6	1.06	25	0
1985	6.9	3	13.6	3	0.2	4	0.69	50	0
1984	-8.1	45	-0.1	43	-16.1	42	0.82	39	0
1983	-7.1	37	-0.8	45	-13.4	30	0.17	77	0
1982	-2	23	4.7	24	-8.8	19	1.01	27	0
1981	-8.3	46	-1.5	49	-15.2	38	0.43	66	0
1980	-27.4	78	-20.8	78	-33.9	77	0.39	67	0
1979	-22.6	75	-14.8	74	-30.4	74	0.51	60	0
1978	-4.2	25	5.2	23	-13.6	34	1.04	26	0
1977	-14.6	63	-9.4	67	-19.9	58	1.36	18	0
1976	-9.2	48	-1.9	50	-16.6	47	0.21	76	0
1975	-19	70	-11.9	72	-26	69	0.58	55	0
1974	-19	70	-11.7	71	-26.4	70	0.27	72	0
1973	-0.2	18	7.8	17	-8.1	17	0.39	67	0
1972	-6	33	2	31	-14	35	1.46	14	0
1971	-7.7	41	0.6	40	-16	41	1.48	11	0
1970	-13.5	61	-5.3	59	-21.7	61	1.97	6	0
1969	10.1	2	17.7	1	2.5	2	0.50	61	0
1968	-17.9	69	-8.4	66	-27.4	72	1.09	24	0
1967	-6.4	35	1.9	34	-14.7	37	1.68	7	0
1966	-17.5	68	-10.2	68	-24.9	66	0.54	59	0
1965	-12.6	57	-5.3	59	-19.8	56	1.48	11	0
1964	-29.1	80	-21.5	79	-36.6	81	0.13	80	0
1963	3.4	9	11.5	6	-4.7	11	1.64	9	0
1962	-9.2	48	-1.4	48	-16.5	45	0.59	54	1
1961	-22.5	74	-15.3	75	-30.6	75	0.81	40	2
1960	6.1	4	13.3	4	-1.1	5	0.47	62	0
1959	-11.8	56	-4.3	57	-19.3	53	1.15	22	0
1958	-7.4	38	1.7	36	-16.5	45	0.24	75	0
1957	-19	70	-10.9	70	-27.2	71	0.74	47	0
1956	-29.7	81	-24.3	81	-35.7	80	0.29	71	1
1955	-15.4	64	-5.6	61	-25.2	68	1.44	16	0
1954	-28.1	79	-21.5	79	-35.1	79	0.74	47	2
1953	-5.5	31	0.1	42	-11.2	25	0.36	69	0
1952	-2.3	24	6.4	20	-11	24	0.14	79	0
1951	-11.4	53	-2.4	51	-20.5	59	0.95	33	0
1950	-1.2	20	4.4	25	-6.9	14	0.96	32	0
1949	-12.9	58	-6.3	62	-19.5	54	0.25	73	0
1948	-16.9	67	-10.2	68	-23.6	64	0.64	53	0
1947	5.4	5	9.5	13	1.3	3	0.25	73	0
1946	-26.9	77	-19.2	77	-34.6	78	0.57	56	0
1945	0.8	14	9.8	11	-8.1	17	0.17	77	0
1944							1.20	21	10

Warmest, coldest, wettest and driest

Warmest
Year	Mean, °F
2017	10.7
1969	10.1
1985	6.9
1960	6.1
1947	5.4
1986	5.3
2005	3.9
2014	3.8
1963	3.4
2002	2.4

Coldest
Year	Mean, °F
1956	-29.7
1964	-29.1
1954	-28.1
1980	-27.4
1946	-26.9
2025	-24.2
1979	-22.6
1961	-22.5
2010	-21.4
1975	-19
More years share the last value

Wettest
Year	Precipitation, in
2021	3.61
2018	3.50
2011	3.41
1992	3.09
2017	2.03
1970	1.97
2004	1.68
1967	1.68
1963	1.64
2014	1.59

Driest
Year	Precipitation, in
2025	trace
1995	0.12
1964	0.13
1952	0.14
1983	0.17
1945	0.17
1976	0.21
1958	0.24
1949	0.25
1947	0.25

The hottest, coldest and wettest days

Hottest day: 20°F; 3 December 2025
Coldest night: -46°F; 30 December 2025, 27 December 2025

Every month, season and year

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Bettles, AK the day's answers

All-time records

Every answer in words

December 2025 brought a trace of precipitation in Bettles, AK, the driest December on record, in 82 years since 1944; provisional.
The hottest day of December 2025 in Bettles, AK: 20°F on Wednesday 3 December 2025.
The coldest night of December 2025 in Bettles, AK: a low of -46°F on Tuesday 30 December 2025 and Saturday 27 December 2025.