Fairbanks is a whole different world than Anchorage. Typically 30 or more degrees colder in winter then Anchorage. Might as well compare Lake Placid weather to NYC weather. They are in the same state after all.
Anchorage is a maritime climate, tempered by the ocean. Not too hot in the summer, not too cold in the winter. Fairbanks is a moon like climate completely dependent on what the sun is doing at that moment. I would never, ever live there.
Pick em rain wise. It used to start raining[drizzling really] in July but past few years nothing is predicable, It may rain all summer or not at all. I get smoke from time to time but it comes from guess where? up by Fairbanks.
I could spend all summer in Anchorage and never see a mosquito most years. Bugs are a swampy interior thing.