Warm-summer humid continental
Mill Bay, Alaska
Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska · Population 3.5k · 33 ft elevation
Living in Mill Bay
Mill Bay has a warm-summer humid continental climate: cool summers (July highs around 60°F) and chilly winters (January lows around 27°F).
Precipitation is very wet at about 76″ a year, and it gets a fair bit of snow (43″ a season).
Skies are gray (40% of possible sunshine). It never gets truly muggy.
Air quality is excellent: a median AQI of 8 and virtually no unhealthy-air days.
There is plenty to explore outdoors around Mill Bay: about 13% of the land within 30 miles is public (parks, national forest and the like), and the terrain rises and falls about 2,300 ft around town.
Mill Bay at a glance
- Population
- 3.5k
- Elevation
- 33 ft
- Average daily high
- 47°F0th percentile
- Average daily low
- 37°F9th percentile
- Annual precipitation
- 76″100th percentile
- Annual snowfall
- 43″83th percentile
- Sunshine hours per year
- 1,892 hrs0th percentile
- Median AQI
- 80th percentile
- Median home value
- $431k75th percentile
- Median rent
- $2,777/mo97th percentile
- Median household income
- $94k69th percentile
- Property tax rate
- 1.02%53th percentile
- Top state income-tax rate
- 0.0%
- Sales tax (state + local)
- 1.8%
- Unemployment rate
- 0.9%
- Homes with broadband
- 98%93th percentile
- Walkability index
- 7.024th percentile
- Average commute
- 12 min
- Math proficiency (8th grade)
- 32%26th percentile
- Reading proficiency (8th grade)
- 37%
- Violent crime rate
- 410 per 100k82th percentile
- Property crime rate
- 765 per 100k
- Overall natural-hazard risk
- 6519th percentile
- Outdoor access
- 8483th percentile
- Public land within 10 miles
- 5%
- Public land within 30 miles
- 13%
- Mountain relief within 30 miles
- 2,264 ft
Climate by month
| Month | High | Low | Precipitation | Snow | Sunshine |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 36°F | 27°F | 7.9″ | 10.7″ | 66 hrs |
| Feb | 37°F | 29°F | 6.0″ | 6.3″ | 83 hrs |
| Mar | 38°F | 28°F | 5.1″ | 8.6″ | 159 hrs |
| Apr | 43°F | 34°F | 5.6″ | 2.9″ | 192 hrs |
| May | 50°F | 40°F | 5.4″ | 0.3″ | 236 hrs |
| Jun | 55°F | 45°F | 5.1″ | — | 250 hrs |
| Jul | 60°F | 50°F | 4.5″ | — | 253 hrs |
| Aug | 61°F | 50°F | 5.0″ | — | 227 hrs |
| Sep | 56°F | 45°F | 7.3″ | — | 166 hrs |
| Oct | 47°F | 38°F | 8.3″ | — | 123 hrs |
| Nov | 41°F | 32°F | 7.1″ | 6.3″ | 81 hrs |
| Dec | 37°F | 28°F | 8.3″ | 7.8″ | 57 hrs |
Near Mill Bay
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Sources: NOAA climate normals, NASA POWER, EPA air quality, U.S. Census Bureau, FEMA, FBI, EPA walkability and EDFacts. Methodology