Dry weather: only 445 mm of rain and snow a year falls on Nolan Hill, less than on 82% of Canadian towns
High summer brings afternoon highs near 23.5°C. The year is lopsided: June gets about 11 times what January does. 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.
1991–2020 normals from ECCC’s Calgary (Airport) location, 13 km south-east.
A year in Nolan Hill at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Nolan Hill’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Alberta beside it.
What a year in Nolan Hill feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on 193 days, 20°C on 87
From September to May frost is routine, and in December it comes on almost 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
Some 72 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
About 139 cm of snow a year
From September to May snow is likely; March is the peak, at about 24 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Nolan Hill
85% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
A heating degree day is one degree of shortfall below 18°C for one day, summed over the year. A house here needs more heating than 68% of Canadian towns.
Living with Nolan Hill’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Frost usually lets go around 21 May and returns near 18 September, about 119 days apart.
Afternoons of 17–27°C and nights of at least 8°C arrive in Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Roughly 42 days a year feel colder than −20 in the wind.
A humidex above 30 marks about 9 days in a normal year.
Bad-weather days, from blizzards to floods, get their own page for Nolan Hill: the hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Calgary (Airport)
Calgary (Airport) is a composite: ECCC joins 2 stations’ readings to make its 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 13 km south-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, 76 km |
How Nolan Hill 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
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Nolan Hill’s own would show the same figures). The nearest places to Nolan Hill with figures are 42–68 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nolan Hill Calgary (Airport) | 23.5°C | −13.5°C | 445 mm |
| Carstairs 42 km · Sundre | 22.8°C 0.7°C cooler | −18.0°C 4.5°C colder | 496 mm |
| Stoney 142, 143, 144 48 km · Banff | 22.5°C 1.0°C cooler | −13.5°C about the same | 454 mm |
| Wheatland County 68 km · Queenstown | 25.0°C 1.5°C warmer | −13.7°C about the same | 412 mm |
Nolan Hill 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 |
A February here can run warm or cold, its average moving by about 4.1°C; the steadiest month is June
The thirty-year records stretch furthest in December: a low of −38.2°C in 1996 and a high of 19.5°C in 1999.
Where Nolan Hill’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: sunshine, absent from every 1991–2020 location, and an altitude correction, for want of the town’s own elevation.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Nolan Hill’s climate
How warm does Nolan Hill get in summer?
The year’s warmest days come in July, with highs averaging 23.5°C.
How cold does Nolan Hill get in winter?
In January, the coldest month, the typical low is −13.5°C.
How much rain and snow does Nolan Hill get?
Some 445 mm falls in a year. Most of it comes in June (113 mm), the least in January (10 mm).
How long does snow stay on the ground?
There is 1 cm of snow or more on the ground on roughly 93 days a year.
Are these figures for Nolan Hill itself?
Close to it: they are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Calgary (Airport), just outside Nolan Hill’s boundary.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Nolan Hill →
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).