Photo: Paul Jerry · CC BY 2.0Hardly any Canadian towns collect less precipitation than Brooks: 299 mm a year
The warmest part of a July day comes in at 26.9°C on average. About 195 nights a year bring a frost, more than in 88% of Canadian towns. Winter and summer sit 43°C apart. About 55 days a year bring 1 mm of precipitation or more.
Figures: ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals at Brooks (2.9 km east).
A year in Brooks at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Brooks’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Alberta beside it.
What a year in Brooks feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
Frost on 195 days, 20°C on 116
Frost comes from September to May; in December almost every night freezes. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 31 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
299 mm of precipitation in a typical year
June brings the most rain and snow; February, the least. 477th wettest of 478 towns of 2,500+ in Alberta.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
About 105 cm of snow a year
The snow season runs September to May; March brings the most, about 18 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Brooks publishes no full year of snowfall, so these figures come from Queenstown, 77 km away.
Heating a home in Brooks
89% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
ECCC sums, over the year, how many degrees each day’s average falls short of 18°C. Over a year, a home here needs more heating than 62% of Canadian towns.
Living with Brooks’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Seedlings can go out once the average last frost, around 22 May, has passed; autumn’s first, near 21 September, ends a season of about 121 days.
Mild days and mild nights together (17–27°C by day, 8°C or more at night) belong to Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Count on some 52 days a year when the wind makes it feel below −20.
The air feels heavier than 30 on the humidex for about 27 days a year.
Thirty-year normals hide the storms and the extremes: the hazards page has Brooks’s risks.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Brooks
Every temperature, frost, snow and degree-day figure on this page is the 1991–2020 normal ECCC publishes for Brooks.
| Distance from the town | 2.9 km east |
| Station altitude | 747 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Queenstown, 77 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −42.2°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 37.8°C |
| Average wind | 12.6 km/h on average, most often from the south |
| Next-nearest location | Vauxhall, 60 km |
How Brooks 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 Brooks whose figures come from another normals location. Brooks has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 47–75 km out.
Brooks weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −3.4°C | −15.7°C | −9.5°C | 11 mm | 14 cm |
| February | −0.5°C | −13.4°C | −7.0°C | 7 mm | 14 cm |
| March | 4.7°C | −8.5°C | −1.9°C | 16 mm | 18 cm |
| April | 12.8°C | −2.2°C | 5.4°C | 20 mm | 14 cm |
| May | 18.9°C | 3.6°C | 11.3°C | 37 mm | 6 cm |
| June | 22.6°C | 8.5°C | 15.6°C | 76 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 26.9°C | 11.1°C | 19.0°C | 32 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 26.1°C | 9.9°C | 18.1°C | 33 mm | under 1 cm |
| September | 20.7°C | 4.8°C | 12.8°C | 29 mm | 2 cm |
| October | 12.9°C | −1.9°C | 5.5°C | 14 mm | 8 cm |
| November | 3.9°C | −8.8°C | −2.5°C | 15 mm | 15 cm |
| December | −2.7°C | −14.8°C | −8.8°C | 11 mm | 14 cm |
| Year | 11.9°C | −2.3°C | 4.8°C | 299 mm | 105 cm |
In March, anything from −37.5°C to 26.6°C
Two years in three, February’s average falls within 4.3°C of its normal of −7.0°C; June keeps to within 1.0°C.
Where Brooks’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the Canadian Climate Normals, 1991–2020, at Brooks (the closest location with all twelve months of temperatures).
- Other locations: where a location publishes no full year of precipitation or snowfall, the nearest one that does supplies it, named beside those figures.
- Comparisons: Canada’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ (no city totals, no reserves), each through its own nearest location.
- Not on this page: hours of sunshine, missing from the 1991–2020 normals, and a height correction: the town has no elevation on file.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Brooks’s climate
How warm does Brooks get in summer?
A normal July afternoon tops out at about 26.9°C, the year’s high point.
How cold does Brooks get in winter?
In January, the coldest month, the typical low is −15.7°C.
How much rain and snow does Brooks get?
299 mm a year counting snow as water. The wettest month is June (76 mm); the driest, February (7 mm).
Are these figures for Brooks itself?
Yes. They were measured in Brooks, at ECCC’s own station there.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Brooks →
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).