Precipitation in Forest Lawn trails that of 82% of Canadian towns: 445 mm a year
High summer brings afternoon highs near 23.5°C. Temperatures cover 37°C across the year, low to high. Summers stay cool: July afternoons here are cooler than in 80% of Canadian towns. The furnace earns its keep from October to May, the months that average under 10°C.
Read at Calgary (Airport), 9.7 km north: ECCC’s normals for 1991–2020.
A year in Forest Lawn at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Forest Lawn’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Alberta beside it.
What a year in Forest Lawn feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
Frost on 193 days, 20°C on 87
Frost comes from September to May; in December almost every night freezes. On about 22 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
Rain and melted snow: about 445 mm a year
The most falls in June, the least in January. About 72 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
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 Forest Lawn
85% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
Think of it as a year’s worth of daily shortfalls below 18°C, added up. By this count, homes here need more heating than 68% of Canadian towns.
Living with Forest Lawn’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
On average the last spring frost comes around 21 May and the first autumn frost around 18 September: about 119 frost-free days between.
Plan time outside for Jul and Aug: highs of 17–27°C and nights no colder than 8°C.
Parks & trails →Bitter wind chill, under −20, comes on about 42 days a year.
The humidex tops 30 on about 9 days a year: muggy days to plan around.
Thirty years of averages say little about one bad storm; Forest Lawn’s hazards page does.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Calgary (Airport)
ECCC builds the Calgary (Airport) normals from 2 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 9.7 km north |
| 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, 84 km |
How Forest Lawn 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 Forest Lawn’s would only repeat its figures. Distances here run 52–70 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Forest Lawn.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Lawn Calgary (Airport) | 23.5°C | −13.5°C | 445 mm |
| Wheatland County 52 km · Queenstown | 25.0°C 1.5°C warmer | −13.7°C about the same | 412 mm |
| Carstairs 58 km · Sundre | 22.8°C 0.7°C cooler | −18.0°C 4.5°C colder | 496 mm |
| Stoney 142, 143, 144 63 km · Banff | 22.5°C 1.0°C cooler | −13.5°C about the same | 454 mm |
Forest Lawn weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and 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 |
February strays furthest from its normal year to year, by 4.1°C; June the least
Each bar spans a month’s coldest and warmest readings over thirty years; December’s run from −38.2°C in 1996 to 19.5°C in 1999.
Where Forest Lawn’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s normals for Calgary (Airport), 1991–2020, chosen as the nearest location with a full temperature record.
- Comparisons: a pool of Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, read alike; whole cities and reserves stay out of it.
- Not on this page: a sunshine figure (ECCC published none for 1991–2020) and any lapse-rate correction for height, as the town has no elevation here.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Forest Lawn’s climate
How warm does Forest Lawn get in summer?
In July, the warmest month, the typical high is 23.5°C.
How cold does Forest Lawn get in winter?
A typical January night falls to −13.5°C, the year’s low point.
How much rain and snow does Forest Lawn get?
A normal year brings 445 mm, snow included as water: June is wettest at 113 mm, January driest at 10 mm.
How long does snow stay on the ground?
The ground is white, with 1 cm or more, on some 93 days a year.
Are these figures for Forest Lawn itself?
Nearly: Calgary (Airport), the location behind them, sits just beyond Forest Lawn’s boundary.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Forest Lawn →
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).