Direct Flights from Ketchikan to Juneau
Juneau · Alaska
Nonstop service from KTN to JNU on Alaska. Here's the schedule at a glance — plus what to do once you land.
How rare is this nonstop?
Only 7 cities have a nonstop to Juneau, so this is a route worth knowing about — most travelers connect to get there.
How long to go to Juneau for, from Ketchikan
1h in the air, 234 miles: short enough that a single night in Juneau is worth it, and a day trip is not absurd.
About Juneau
Juneau (JOO-noh) is the capital of Alaska, in the state's Southeastern region. Juneau is on the North American mainland and yet cannot be reached by land. Effectively, the rugged mountains surrounding it make Juneau into an island city, reachable only by air or by sea. Juneau experiences a daily influx of thousands of people from visiting cruise ships between May and September.
Summary from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA).
Top things to do in Juneau
- The Co-Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary was until 2020 the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Juneau and is currently a cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau.
- The Alaska State Museum is a museum in Juneau, Alaska, United States. It was established in 1900 to collect both the human and natural history of Alaska.
- The Juneau-Douglas City Museum is located at the corner of 4th and Main, opposite the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau, Alaska. It occupies a building which was built in 1950–51 to house the Juneau Memorial Library.
- The Jualpa Mining Camp, also known as the Last Chance Basin Camp, is a former gold mining camp, just outside the city of Juneau, Alaska.
- Eaglecrest Ski Area is a public ski area on Douglas Island in the U.S. state of Alaska, across Gastineau Channel from Juneau. The area is owned and operated by Juneau's municipal government.
- Tahku is a life-size bronze sculpture of a humpback whale in Juneau, Alaska, United States, erected in 2018. The name comes from the Tlingit term for "fierce winds", also connected to the Taku people.
- Petroglyph Beach State Historic Site is an Alaskan beach and public historical site with the highest concentration of Native American petroglyphs in the southeastern region of Alaska.
- Mayor Bill Overstreet Park, also known locally as Overstreet Park, is a beach and public park, located in the City of Juneau, the state capital of Alaska.
- Fort Durham, also known as Fort Taku, Taku, Taco, and Tacouw, is an archaeological site near Taku Harbor, Alaska, within the limits of Juneau City and Borough and Tongass National Forest.
Attraction descriptions from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); place data from Wikidata (CC0).
Looking for things to do in Juneau? Travel Juneau is the official visitor guide.
Juneau weather, compared with Ketchikan
Within 3° of Ketchikan on the annual average, so pack much as you would at home — but the two cities do not track each other month to month:
- January
- Juneau 33°F · Ketchikan 40°F · 7° colder
- April
- Juneau 49°F · Ketchikan 50°F · much the same
- July
- Juneau 64°F · Ketchikan 64°F · much the same
- October
- Juneau 47°F · Ketchikan 51°F · 4° colder
January bottoms out near 33°F — a real coat, not a layer.
Average daily highs, 1991–2020 station normals from Meteostat (CC BY 4.0), measured at each city's airport.
Planning a trip to Juneau
- Best time to visit
- The best time to visit Juneau is June–August, when daytime highs are a comfortable 62–64°F.
- How long to stay
- Three or four days is enough to take in Juneau's highlights, from Co-Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Juneau, Alaska), Alaska State Museum, and Juneau-Douglas City Museum and more.
Frequently asked questions
- Is there a direct flight from Ketchikan to Juneau?
- Yes — you can fly nonstop from Ketchikan (KTN) to Juneau (JNU) on Alaska.
- Which airlines fly nonstop from Ketchikan to Juneau?
- Alaska flies nonstop between Ketchikan (KTN) and Juneau (JNU).
- How many nonstop flights are there from Ketchikan to Juneau?
- There is about 1 nonstop departure per day (roughly 7 per week) from Ketchikan to Juneau.
- How far is Juneau from Ketchikan?
- Juneau is about 234 miles from Ketchikan by air.
- What is there to do in Juneau?
- Popular things to do include Co-Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Juneau, Alaska), Alaska State Museum, Juneau-Douglas City Museum, Last Chance Mining Museum, and more.
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