Alaska Climate Research Center

The Alaska State Climate Center
The Alaska State Climate Center
The Alaska State Climate Center

Arctic Sea Ice Extent: July 24, 2025

July 24, 2025: The Arctic sea ice has experienced a greater decrease rate for this week (of 8 days) of 9.07% (last week’s decrease rate for 8 days was 4.52%), from the level on 07/16/2025 of 7.915 M km2 to 7.197 M km2 for this week. 

Plot Compiled by: Howard J. Diamond, PhD; Climate Science Program Manager at NOAA’s Air Resources Laboratory
Data Source: National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC; https://nsidc.org/).

The negative sea ice anomaly this week was greater than the anomaly of -0.8188 M km2 on 07/16/2025 to a greater negative anomaly of -0.8205 M km2 on 07/24/2025, and so more anomalously negative for this time of year. 

Plot Compiled by: Howard J. Diamond, PhD; Climate Science Program Manager at NOAA’s Air Resources Laboratory
Data Source: National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC; https://nsidc.org/).