page_title: Old Crow, Yukon
section_title: Climate
hierarchical_section_title: Old Crow, Yukon / Climate
caption_attribution_description: English: Old Crow, Yukon, Canada
context_page_description: Old Crow is a community in the Canadian territory of Yukon. It had 221 inhabitants as of 2016, most of them Gwich'in, a First Nations peoples who belong to the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation.
  Located in a periglacial environment, the community is situated on the Porcupine River in the far northern part of the territory. Old Crow is the only Yukon community that cannot be reached by motor vehicle, requiring visitors to fly in to Old Crow Airport in order to reach it. It is a dry community.
context_section_description: Old Crow has a subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification Dfc) with mild summers and severely cold winters. Average annual temperature is −8.3 °C (17.1 °F). Old Crow experiences annual temperature average daily highs of 20.2 °C (68.4 °F) in July and average daily lows of −33.5 °C (−28.3 °F) in January. Record high temperature was 32.8 °C (91.0 °F) on August 30, 1976 and the lowest was −59.4 °C (−74.9 °F) on January 5, 1975. Precipitation is very low, but is somewhat higher in the summer. Average annual snowfall is 141.4 cm (55.67 in) and rainfall is 154.8 mm (6.09 in).
  As Old Crow is located north of the Arctic Circle, it experiences polar day or midnight sun in summer and polar night in winter.
  The midnight sun is typically between May 5 and August 8 inclusive, while the polar night usually starts around December 14 and ends by December 29.
caption: View from the river bank
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