Travel Tips

Alaska Travel Tips: 
Alaska is a great place to visit and here are some travel tips to help make your vacation smooth, worry-free and totally enjoyable!  Click here for a Map of Alaska and Alaska Travel Distances.

What will the weather be like?  How much daylight will you have and what type of clothing should you pack for the trip?  Since Alaska is 2.3 times the size of Texas, it has a variety of climates and even the hours of daylight differ from one part of the state to another.  You can see this in detail in the table below.    There is no classic "rainy season" in Alaska.   The Southeast part of the state - along the Inside Passage, normally gets the most rainfall and the Interior of Alaska - (Homer, Seward, Anchorage, Denali, Fairbanks), typically has more of the warm summer sunny days. 

What to wear?   Alaska is a very casual place so plan to dress in layers and bring slacks, jeans, a hat, sweaters, sweatshirts, long sleeve and short sleeve T-shirts, good walking shoes, a rain jacket and a coat if you are planning to be in the Arctic or on the water (it is normally 10 degrees cooler on the water than on land).  The normal rule of thumb is to dress for one season earlier than the one you are planning to travel in - as summertime in Alaska is much like spring in the lower latitudes. The main thing is to be prepared as the weather can change quickly and dramatically during the course of these long summer days.  Dressing in layers is the key - as you can simply shed your outerwear as the day warms up or the weather changes.