Currie Barracks is drier than 82% of Canadian towns: 445 mm of rain and snow a year
The warmest part of a July day comes in at 23.5°C on average. Summers stay cool: July afternoons here are cooler than in 80% of Canadian towns. Precipitation follows the seasons: June brings about 11 times as much as January. Plan for rain or snow on about 72 days a year, the days with 1 mm or more.
Figures: ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Calgary (Airport) (15 km north-east).
A year in Currie Barracks at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Currie Barracks’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Alberta beside it.
What a year in Currie Barracks feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
193 frost days and 87 days above 20°C a year
From September to May frost is routine, and in December it comes on almost every night. Some 22 nights a year drop under −20°C.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
Rain and melted snow: about 445 mm a year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 139 cm in a normal year
The snow season runs September to May; March brings the most, about 24 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Currie Barracks
85% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
One degree below 18°C for one day makes one heating degree day; the year’s days are added together. That means homes here need more heating than 68% of Canadian towns.
Living with Currie Barracks’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Gardens get from about 21 May to 18 September without frost, around 119 days in all.
Warm afternoons without cold nights, 17–27°C and 8°C or more, mark Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Count on some 42 days a year when the wind makes it feel below −20.
Roughly 9 days a year feel hotter than 30 once humidity is counted.
Ice storms, floods and heat waves are risks, not averages: they are on Currie Barracks’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Calgary (Airport)
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for Calgary (Airport) are 2 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 15 km north-east |
| Station altitude | 1,099 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −39.7°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 36.5°C |
| Average wind | 13.8 km/h on average, most often from the south |
| Next-nearest location | Queenstown, 93 km |
How Currie Barracks compares
Placed among 2,611 Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+, each on its nearest normals location; each dot is another location used in Alberta.
Nearby towns’ climate
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Currie Barracks’s would only repeat its figures. Distances here run 53–72 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Currie Barracks.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Currie Barracks Calgary (Airport) | 23.5°C | −13.5°C | 445 mm |
| Stoney 142, 143, 144 53 km · Banff | 22.5°C 1.0°C cooler | −13.5°C about the same | 454 mm |
| Carstairs 61 km · Sundre | 22.8°C 0.7°C cooler | −18.0°C 4.5°C colder | 496 mm |
| Wheatland County 63 km · Queenstown | 25.0°C 1.5°C warmer | −13.7°C about the same | 412 mm |
Currie Barracks 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 | −1.5°C | −13.5°C | −7.6°C | 10 mm | 17 cm |
| February | 0.1°C | −11.8°C | −5.9°C | 12 mm | 17 cm |
| March | 3.8°C | −8.1°C | −2.2°C | 18 mm | 24 cm |
| April | 10.8°C | −1.9°C | 4.5°C | 30 mm | 23 cm |
| May | 16.4°C | 3.4°C | 9.9°C | 61 mm | 10 cm |
| June | 19.7°C | 7.7°C | 13.7°C | 113 mm | under 1 cm |
| July | 23.5°C | 10.2°C | 16.9°C | 66 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 23.1°C | 9.2°C | 16.2°C | 54 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 18.3°C | 4.7°C | 11.5°C | 37 mm | 2 cm |
| October | 11.1°C | −1.3°C | 4.9°C | 17 mm | 12 cm |
| November | 4.1°C | −7.5°C | −1.7°C | 16 mm | 19 cm |
| December | −0.4°C | −12.1°C | −6.3°C | 13 mm | 16 cm |
| Year | 10.8°C | −1.8°C | 4.5°C | 445 mm | 139 cm |
A December here can run from −38.2°C to 19.5°C
February is the least predictable month: about two years in three its average lands within 4.1°C of the normal, −5.9°C. June is the steadiest, within 1.1°C.
Where Currie Barracks’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals for Calgary (Airport), the nearest location with a full year of temperatures.
- Comparisons: the 2,500-plus towns and neighbourhoods of Canada, each read from its closest normals location; whole cities and reserves aren’t counted.
- 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 Currie Barracks’s climate
How warm does Currie Barracks get in summer?
Afternoons average 23.5°C in July, the warmest time of year.
How cold does Currie Barracks get in winter?
January nights average −13.5°C, the coldest of the year.
How much rain and snow does Currie Barracks get?
445 mm a year counting snow as water. The wettest month is June (113 mm); the driest, January (10 mm).
How long does snow stay on the ground?
Snow covers the ground, 1 cm or more, on about 93 days a year.
Are these figures for Currie Barracks itself?
They are the normals for Calgary (Airport), measured just outside Currie Barracks itself.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Currie Barracks →
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).