Hamptons is drier than 82% of Canadian towns: 445 mm of rain and snow a year
January mornings start at about −13.5°C. Its July afternoons stay fresher than in 80% of Canadian towns. The year is lopsided: June gets about 11 times what January does. Expect about 193 frosty starts a year, days when the air falls to freezing.
Read at Calgary (Airport), 10 km east: ECCC’s normals for 1991–2020.
A year in Hamptons at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Hamptons’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Alberta beside it.
What a year in Hamptons 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
The frost season runs September to May, and December freezes nearly every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 22 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
445 mm of precipitation in a typical year
On about 72 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
About 139 cm of snow a 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 Hamptons
85% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
ECCC sums, over the year, how many degrees each day’s average falls short of 18°C. That means homes here need more heating than 68% of Canadian towns.
Living with Hamptons’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Seedlings can go out once the average last frost, around 21 May, has passed; autumn’s first, near 18 September, ends a season of about 119 days.
The comfortable months for a day outside, highs of 17–27°C and nights of 8°C or more: Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Plan for about 42 days a year with a wind chill below −20.
The air feels heavier than 30 on the humidex for about 9 days a year.
A typical year is calm by definition; Hamptons’s hazards page covers the exceptions.
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 | 10 km 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 | Sundre, 80 km |
How Hamptons compares
Against the 2,611 Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, each read from its own normals location; the dots are the other locations those towns use in Alberta.
Nearby towns’ climate
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Hamptons’s would only repeat its figures. Hamptons has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 46–66 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamptons Calgary (Airport) | 23.5°C | −13.5°C | 445 mm |
| Carstairs 46 km · Sundre | 22.8°C 0.7°C cooler | −18.0°C 4.5°C colder | 496 mm |
| Stoney 142, 143, 144 49 km · Banff | 22.5°C 1.0°C cooler | −13.5°C about the same | 454 mm |
| Wheatland County 66 km · Queenstown | 25.0°C 1.5°C warmer | −13.7°C about the same | 412 mm |
Hamptons 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 |
In December, anything from −38.2°C to 19.5°C
Two years in three, February’s average falls within 4.1°C of its normal of −5.9°C; June keeps to within 1.1°C.
Where Hamptons’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 normals from ECCC for Calgary (Airport), its nearest location with complete temperatures.
- Comparisons: every place of 2,500+ in Canada but the city hubs and the reserves, each on its nearest ECCC location.
- Not on this page: sunshine, not in ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals, and the effect of the town’s height, for which there is no figure.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Hamptons’s climate
How warm does Hamptons get in summer?
The year’s warmest days come in July, with highs averaging 23.5°C.
How cold does Hamptons get in winter?
At its coldest, in January, the normal low is −13.5°C.
How much rain and snow does Hamptons get?
Rain and snow, with snow counted as water, total 445 mm a year; June leads with 113 mm and January trails with 10 mm.
How long does snow stay on the ground?
Snow lies on the ground for about 93 days in a normal year.
Are these figures for Hamptons itself?
Close to it: they are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Calgary (Airport), just outside Hamptons’s boundary.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Hamptons →
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).