Photo: Unknown author Unknown author · Public domainCamrose is among the driest of Canadian towns: 378 mm of rain and snow a year
July afternoons average 23.1°C. By frosts alone, it ranks colder than 95% of Canadian towns. Rain or snow is most frequent in July and least in February. An umbrella or a shovel earns its place on about 72 days a year with 1 mm or more.
Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals at its Camrose station, 4.7 km north.
A year in Camrose at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Camrose’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Alberta beside it.
What a year in Camrose feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
About 205 frosts and 87 warm days a year
From September to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. On about 39 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
About 378 mm of rain and snow a year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
127 cm of snow in a typical year
From October to May snow is likely; January is the peak, at about 24 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snowfall: Edmonton (Airport), 60 km away (Camrose records no complete year of it).
Heating a home in Camrose
87% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
The count adds up, day by day, how far the mean temperature falls short of 18°C. A house here needs more heating than 86% of Canadian towns.
Living with Camrose’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Count on about 117 frost-free days: the last frost averages 20 May, the first 14 September.
The outdoor season by the averages is Jun, Jul and Aug, with highs of 17–27°C and lows of 8°C or more.
Parks & trails →Winter brings about 66 days with a wind chill below −20.
Count on some 13 humid days a year with the humidex past 30.
Extremes don’t show in averages: floods, wildfire smoke and ice storms are on Camrose’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Camrose
The page’s figures are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Camrose, one of its 450 normals locations.
| Distance from the town | 4.7 km north |
| Station altitude | 739 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Edmonton (Airport), 60 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −44.9°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.3°C |
| Average wind | 12.3 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Edmonton (Airport), 60 km |
How Camrose compares
Compared with 2,611 towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more across Canada; the dots mark the other normals locations in Alberta.
Nearby towns’ climate
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Camrose’s own would show the same figures). The nearest place to Camrose with figures is 44 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camrose | 23.1°C | −17.8°C | 378 mm |
| Millet 44 km · Edmonton (Airport) | 23.0°C about the same | −18.1°C about the same | 434 mm |
Camrose 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 | −6.4°C | −17.8°C | −12.2°C | 19 mm | 24 cm |
| February | −4.0°C | −16.4°C | −10.2°C | 9 mm | 14 cm |
| March | 1.0°C | −10.6°C | −4.8°C | 16 mm | 19 cm |
| April | 10.0°C | −2.4°C | 3.8°C | 27 mm | 16 cm |
| May | 17.2°C | 3.4°C | 10.3°C | 40 mm | 6 cm |
| June | 20.5°C | 8.1°C | 14.3°C | 72 mm | under 1 cm |
| July | 23.1°C | 10.2°C | 16.7°C | 73 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 22.5°C | 8.7°C | 15.6°C | 44 mm | under 1 cm |
| September | 17.4°C | 3.6°C | 10.5°C | 34 mm | 1 cm |
| October | 9.7°C | −2.7°C | 3.5°C | 18 mm | 10 cm |
| November | 0.1°C | −10.1°C | −5.0°C | 16 mm | 19 cm |
| December | −5.3°C | −16.2°C | −10.8°C | 10 mm | 16 cm |
| Year | 8.8°C | −3.5°C | 2.7°C | 378 mm | 127 cm |
The most changeable month: February, give or take 4.2°C; the steadiest, June
Bars run from each month’s record low to its record high since 1991. March spans the most, from −39.8°C (2003) to 25.1°C (2004).
Where Camrose’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s normals for Camrose, 1991–2020, chosen as the nearest location with a full temperature record.
- Other locations: a location missing months of precipitation or snow is filled from the nearest that has them all, never mixed month by month.
- Comparisons: the towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ across Canada, each on its nearest normals location, without the city totals or the reserves.
- 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 Camrose’s climate
How warm does Camrose get in summer?
Expect highs near 23.1°C in July, the hottest month on average.
How cold does Camrose get in winter?
On a normal January night the air drops to −17.8°C, the coldest of the year.
How much rain and snow does Camrose get?
Some 378 mm falls in a year. Most of it comes in July (73 mm), the least in February (9 mm).
Are these figures for Camrose itself?
Almost: ECCC’s Camrose location, which gives these figures, lies a short way outside Camrose.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Camrose →
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).