Alert climate

Name: Alert
Address: High Arctic (Ellesmere Island, Nunavut), Canada

Canada · High Arctic (Ellesmere Island, Nunavut) · 82.502° N, 62.348° W

Köppen EFice-cap/polar desertPolar & alpine

Northernmost inhabited place on Earth: polar night, near-perpetual frost, scant snowfall in a frozen desert.

Cold enough that no month is truly warm — tundra, ice cap, or high mountain.

What the year looks like

Average monthly temperature — °F / °C

Average high Average low

Average monthly precipitation — in / mm

Rain Snowfall

Warmest month

July, 45°F / 7°C

Coldest month

February, -27°F / -33°C

Annual swing

72°F / 40°C

Wettest month

July

Driest month

January

Rain per year

1.6" / 41 mm

Snow per year

44.2" / 1122 mm

Elevation

223 ft / 68 m

Time zone

America/Iqaluit

2019-2023 averages from Open-Meteo Historical Weather API (ERA5 reanalysis). Imperial / metric.
Month	High °F/°C	Low °F/°C	Rain in/mm	Snow in/mm	Humidity	Wind mph/km/h	Cloud
January	-17 / -27	-26 / -32	0.01 / 0	2.3 / 58	70%	6.1 / 9.8	71%
February	-16 / -27	-27 / -33	0.00 / 0	2.5 / 64	69%	6.7 / 10.8	73%
March	-11 / -24	-22 / -30	0.01 / 0	3.3 / 83	66%	8.7 / 14.0	74%
April	1 / -17	-9 / -23	0.01 / 0	2.3 / 59	71%	6.5 / 10.5	66%
May	20 / -7	14 / -10	0.01 / 0	4.5 / 115	79%	7.1 / 11.4	71%
June	38 / 3	32 / 0	0.16 / 4	4.8 / 123	83%	6.8 / 10.9	76%
July	45 / 7	35 / 2	0.98 / 25	2.7 / 68	84%	7.1 / 11.4	79%
August	40 / 4	33 / 0	0.40 / 10	2.9 / 74	87%	6.8 / 10.9	86%
September	25 / -4	17 / -8	0.02 / 1	9.1 / 232	81%	7.8 / 12.6	78%
October	9 / -13	0 / -18	0.00 / 0	4.8 / 123	75%	7.0 / 11.3	72%
November	-7 / -22	-17 / -27	0.00 / 0	2.6 / 67	69%	6.1 / 9.8	63%
December	-9 / -23	-20 / -29	0.01 / 0	2.2 / 56	69%	5.9 / 9.5	66%

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