West Springs is drier than 82% of Canadian towns: 445 mm of rain and snow a year
Midwinter brings lows of about −13.5°C. Expect the most rain and snow in June and the least in January. By July afternoons alone, it runs cooler than 80% of Canadian towns. Windshields need scraping on about 193 mornings a year, the days the air reaches 0°C or below.
Figures: ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Calgary (Airport) (15 km north-east).
A year in West Springs at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about West Springs’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Alberta beside it.
What a year in West Springs 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. 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
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
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 West Springs
85% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
Degree days add up how far each day’s mean temperature falls below 18°C over a year. In heating terms, homes need more heating than 68% of Canadian towns.
Living with West Springs’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Tender plants are usually safe from around 21 May until frost returns near 18 September: about 119 days.
Warm afternoons without cold nights, 17–27°C and 8°C or more, mark Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →The wind chill passes −20 on about 42 days in a normal year.
Humid summer days, the humidex above 30, number about 9 a year.
Ice storms, floods and heat waves are risks, not averages: they are on West Springs’s 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 | 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 | Sundre, 87 km |
How West Springs 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 West Springs’s would only repeat its figures. Distances here run 47–68 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from West Springs.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Springs Calgary (Airport) | 23.5°C | −13.5°C | 445 mm |
| Stoney 142, 143, 144 47 km · Banff | 22.5°C 1.0°C cooler | −13.5°C about the same | 454 mm |
| Carstairs 56 km · Sundre | 22.8°C 0.7°C cooler | −18.0°C 4.5°C colder | 496 mm |
| Wheatland County 68 km · Queenstown | 25.0°C 1.5°C warmer | −13.7°C about the same | 412 mm |
West Springs 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 varies most from one year to the next (4.1°C), June least
Over 1991–2020, December saw both −38.2°C (1996) and 19.5°C (1999), the widest span of any month.
Where West Springs’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: 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: 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 West Springs’s climate
How warm does West Springs get in summer?
Afternoons average 23.5°C in July, the warmest time of year.
How cold does West Springs get in winter?
Deep winter means January, when nights average −13.5°C.
How much rain and snow does West Springs 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?
On about 93 days a year the ground keeps at least 1 cm of snow.
Are these figures for West Springs itself?
Almost: ECCC’s Calgary (Airport) location, which gives these figures, lies a short way outside West Springs.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for West Springs →
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).