Description

Regional airport serving the city of Yakutak.

Climatology

Yakutat has a climate located on the boundary of the subarctic (Köppen climate classification Dfb) and subpolar oceanic (Köppen climate classification Cfb) regimes. Yakutat has the typical high precipitation, absence of frozen soil and temperate rainforest vegetation of the subpolar oceanic climate zone of the Pacific Coast. It rivals Ketchikan as the wettest “city” in the United States, with an annual precipitation (1981−2010 normals) of 155 inches