Photo: Ken Eckert · CC BY-SA 4.0Hardly any Canadian towns wake to more frost than Bentley
In July the day’s top temperature is typically 22.9°C. The year swings widely: the coldest month’s nights and the warmest month’s afternoons are 41°C apart. Summers stay cool: July afternoons here are cooler than in 92% of Canadian towns. About 81 days a year bring 1 mm of precipitation or more.
No ECCC station in Bentley has 1991–2020 normals; the page reads Red Deer, 34 km south, instead.
A year in Bentley at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Bentley’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Alberta beside it.
What a year in Bentley feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
Frost on 212 days, 20°C on 85
From September to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. On about 34 nights a year the air falls below −20°C.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
483 mm of precipitation in a typical year
June is the wettest month and February the driest.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
138 cm of snow in a typical year
From September to May snow is likely; March is the peak, at about 23 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Bentley
86% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
Degree days add up how far each day’s mean temperature falls below 18°C over a year. Over a year, a home here needs more heating than 84% of Canadian towns.
Living with Bentley’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Gardens get from about 22 May to 12 September without frost, around 112 days in all.
Mild days and mild nights together (17–27°C by day, 8°C or more at night) belong to Jul.
Parks & trails →The wind chill passes −20 on about 64 days in a normal year.
About 9 days a year feel above 30 on the humidex.
Ice storms, floods and heat waves are risks, not averages: they are on Bentley’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Red Deer
ECCC builds the Red Deer normals from 3 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 34 km south |
| Station altitude | 905 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −43.8°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 36.3°C |
| Average wind | 11.0 km/h on average, most often from the south |
| Next-nearest location | Breton, 83 km |
How Bentley compares
Compared with 2,611 towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more across Canada; the dots mark the other normals locations in Alberta.
Nearby towns’ climate
Places around Bentley whose figures come from another normals location. Bentley has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 53–59 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bentley Red Deer | 22.9°C | −17.6°C | 483 mm |
| Clearwater County 53 km · Sundre | 22.8°C about the same | −18.0°C about the same | 496 mm |
| Wetaskiwin County No. 10 54 km · Breton | 23.1°C about the same | −15.2°C 2.4°C milder | 499 mm |
| Samson 137 56 km · Camrose | 23.1°C about the same | −17.8°C about the same | 378 mm |
| Louis Bull 138B 56 km · Edmonton (Airport) | 23.0°C about the same | −18.1°C 0.5°C colder | 434 mm |
Bentley weather by month
Month by month, 1991–2020: the usual high, low and mean, the rain and snow, and the snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −5.6°C | −17.6°C | −11.6°C | 16 mm | 20 cm |
| February | −3.5°C | −16.1°C | −9.8°C | 12 mm | 15 cm |
| March | 1.3°C | −10.5°C | −4.6°C | 19 mm | 23 cm |
| April | 10.1°C | −3.0°C | 3.6°C | 28 mm | 18 cm |
| May | 16.8°C | 2.7°C | 9.7°C | 58 mm | 10 cm |
| June | 20.0°C | 7.4°C | 13.7°C | 98 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 22.9°C | 9.4°C | 16.2°C | 90 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 22.4°C | 7.9°C | 15.2°C | 70 mm | under 1 cm |
| September | 17.8°C | 3.0°C | 10.4°C | 38 mm | 2 cm |
| October | 10.4°C | −3.4°C | 3.5°C | 22 mm | 10 cm |
| November | 1.1°C | −10.5°C | −4.7°C | 17 mm | 20 cm |
| December | −4.4°C | −16.2°C | −10.3°C | 14 mm | 19 cm |
| Year | 9.1°C | −3.9°C | 2.6°C | 483 mm | 138 cm |
March: −38.0°C at its coldest, 24.8°C at its warmest
The month to count on least is February: one year in three its average strays more than 4.3°C from −9.8°C. June moves least, typically by 0.9°C.
Where Bentley’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals for Red Deer, the nearest location with a full year of temperatures.
- Comparisons: all Canadian places of 2,500 or more except city totals and reserves, each read the same way.
- Not on this page: sunshine, which none of ECCC’s 450 locations publishes for 1991–2020, and the town’s own height above sea level, so no figure is adjusted for altitude.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Bentley’s climate
How warm does Bentley get in summer?
Afternoons average 22.9°C in July, the warmest time of year.
How cold does Bentley get in winter?
Winter bottoms out in January, with lows near −17.6°C.
How much rain and snow does Bentley get?
The yearly total is about 483 mm. June gets 98 mm, the most of any month; February gets 12 mm, the least.
How long does snow stay on the ground?
A layer of at least 1 cm stays down on about 129 days a year.
Are these figures for Bentley itself?
Not as such: Red Deer is the nearest normals location, and Bentley has none.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Bentley →
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).