Right now
12°C / 53°F
Drizzle · wind 12 km/h · 94% RH
Soil (6 cm)
11°C / 52°F
Cool-season seeds OK
Hardiness zone
3a
est. from 10-yr extreme low -39°C
Frost window
May 18 – Sep 20
~125 frost-free days · first frost in ~12 days
Sun
06:52 – 20:41
sunrise – sunset today
Moon
Waning Crescent
10% lit · solunar good · full 2026-09-26
7-day forecast
America/Anchorage
Tue
Showers
13° / 10°
6.1 mm
Wed
Showers
12° / 8°
7.6 mm
Thu
Drizzle
10° / 8°
3 mm
Fri
Rain
13° / 7°
14.8 mm
Sat
Drizzle
13° / 7°
0.4 mm
Sun
Drizzle
8° / 4°
1.9 mm
Mon
Drizzle
12° / 6°
2 mm
This week
AI field guide · refreshed weeklyFairbanks Garden: Final Harvest & Season Close (Sept 8–14). Fairbanks Fall Fishing: Late Season Char and Pike. Fairbanks Fall Foraging: September's Last Harvest.
Gardening
Fairbanks Garden: Final Harvest & Season Close (Sept 8–14)
Sow & harvest now
- Spinach (cold-hardy varieties: 'Space' or 'Bloomsdale')
- Mâche (corn salad)
- Radish ('Cherry Belle' or 'Icicle')
- Potatoes (all varieties)
Fishing
Fairbanks Fall Fishing: Late Season Char and Pike
What's biting
- Arctic Char
- Northern Pike
- Lake Trout (Mackinaw)
- Grayling
Foraging
Fairbanks Fall Foraging: September's Last Harvest
In season now
- Lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea)
- Lowbush Cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos)
- Fireweed shoots and seeds (Chamerion angustifolium)
- Labrador Tea (Rhododendron groenlandicum)
Your ecological region
Boreal North & Taiga
Spruce, permafrost and enormous cold lakes. A short, bright season and a very long winter.
Regional guide →Your hardiness zone
Zone 3a
Estimated from a 10-year average extreme low of -39°C. What grows, what bites and what to forage across your zone.
Zone guide →Get this guide for Fairbanks every week
Frost warnings, what's biting, what's ripening. One email, Sunday evening.