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<ownershipDocument>

    <schemaVersion>X0306</schemaVersion>

    <documentType>4</documentType>

    <periodOfReport>2020-02-26</periodOfReport>

    <notSubjectToSection16>0</notSubjectToSection16>

    <issuer>
        <issuerCik>0001178670</issuerCik>
        <issuerName>ALNYLAM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>ALNY</issuerTradingSymbol>
    </issuer>

    <reportingOwner>
        <reportingOwnerId>
            <rptOwnerCik>0001291963</rptOwnerCik>
            <rptOwnerName>Greene Barry E</rptOwnerName>
        </reportingOwnerId>
        <reportingOwnerAddress>
            <rptOwnerStreet1>675 WEST KENDALL STREET</rptOwnerStreet1>
            <rptOwnerStreet2>HENRI A. TERMEER SQUARE</rptOwnerStreet2>
            <rptOwnerCity>CAMBRIDGE</rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>MA</rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>02142</rptOwnerZipCode>
            <rptOwnerStateDescription></rptOwnerStateDescription>
        </reportingOwnerAddress>
        <reportingOwnerRelationship>
            <isDirector>0</isDirector>
            <isOfficer>1</isOfficer>
            <isTenPercentOwner>0</isTenPercentOwner>
            <isOther>0</isOther>
            <officerTitle>President</officerTitle>
        </reportingOwnerRelationship>
    </reportingOwner>

    <derivativeTable>
        <derivativeTransaction>
            <securityTitle>
                <value>Stock Option  (right to buy)</value>
            </securityTitle>
            <conversionOrExercisePrice>
                <value>118.05</value>
            </conversionOrExercisePrice>
            <transactionDate>
                <value>2020-02-26</value>
            </transactionDate>
            <transactionCoding>
                <transactionFormType>4</transactionFormType>
                <transactionCode>A</transactionCode>
                <equitySwapInvolved>0</equitySwapInvolved>
            </transactionCoding>
            <transactionAmounts>
                <transactionShares>
                    <value>29925</value>
                    <footnoteId id="F1"/>
                </transactionShares>
                <transactionPricePerShare>
                    <value>0.0</value>
                </transactionPricePerShare>
                <transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
                    <value>A</value>
                </transactionAcquiredDisposedCode>
            </transactionAmounts>
            <exerciseDate>
                <footnoteId id="F2"/>
            </exerciseDate>
            <expirationDate>
                <value>2030-02-25</value>
            </expirationDate>
            <underlyingSecurity>
                <underlyingSecurityTitle>
                    <value>Common Stock</value>
                </underlyingSecurityTitle>
                <underlyingSecurityShares>
                    <value>29925</value>
                </underlyingSecurityShares>
            </underlyingSecurity>
            <postTransactionAmounts>
                <sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
                    <value>29925</value>
                </sharesOwnedFollowingTransaction>
            </postTransactionAmounts>
            <ownershipNature>
                <directOrIndirectOwnership>
                    <value>D</value>
                </directOrIndirectOwnership>
            </ownershipNature>
        </derivativeTransaction>
    </derivativeTable>

    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Represents the time-vested stock option portion of the reporting person's Annual Equity Award for 2019. The reporting person also received 16,519 performance stock units that will vest upon the achievement of three specific performance conditions, which will be reported on a Form 4 if and when each performance condition is met and the performance stock units vest.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">The stock option vests as to 25% of the shares on the 1st anniversary of the date of the stock option grant and as to an additional  6.25% of the shares each successive three month period thereafter.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>By: /s/ Mary Beth DeLena, Attorney-in-Fact For: Barry E. Greene</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2020-02-28</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
</ownershipDocument>
