Photo: Unknown author Unknown author · Public domainFew Canadian towns get more frosts than Didsbury
The warmest part of a July day comes in at 22.8°C on average. By July afternoons alone, it runs cooler than 93% of Canadian towns. Precipitation peaks in June and eases off in January. Wet days, with 1 mm of rain or snow or more, come about 81 times a year.
These are not Didsbury’s own readings: ECCC keeps no normals there, so the page uses Sundre, 40 km west.
A year in Didsbury at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Didsbury’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Alberta beside it.
What a year in Didsbury feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
233 frost days and 79 days above 20°C a year
From September to June frost is routine, and in December it comes on almost every night. On about 42 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
496 mm of precipitation in a typical year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
138 cm of snow in a typical year
Snow falls from September to May, most of all in March (about 23 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Sundre publishes no full year of snowfall, so these figures come from Red Deer, 60 km away.
Heating a home in Didsbury
83% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: September to May.
Heating degree days total each day’s gap between its mean temperature and 18°C. Over a year, a home here needs more heating than 92% of Canadian towns.
Living with Didsbury’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Frost usually lets go around 13 June and returns near 25 August, about 72 days apart.
Summer nights stay cool here: no month pairs 17–27°C afternoons with 8°C nights.
Parks & trails →Winter brings about 57 days with a wind chill below −20.
About 6 days a year feel above 30 on the humidex.
Extremes don’t show in averages: floods, wildfire smoke and ice storms are on Didsbury’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Sundre
The page’s figures are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Sundre, one of its 450 normals locations.
| Distance from the town | 40 km west |
| Station altitude | 1,114 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Red Deer, 60 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −47.7°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.6°C |
| Average wind | 7.2 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Red Deer, 60 km |
How Didsbury 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 Didsbury’s would only repeat its figures. Distances here run 26–43 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Didsbury.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Didsbury Sundre | 22.8°C | −18.0°C | 496 mm |
| Crossfield 26 km · Calgary (Airport) | 23.5°C 0.7°C warmer | −13.5°C 4.5°C milder | 445 mm |
| Bowden 31 km · Red Deer | 22.9°C about the same | −17.6°C about the same | 483 mm |
Didsbury 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 | −18.0°C | −9.8°C | 13 mm | 20 cm |
| February | 0.5°C | −17.1°C | −8.3°C | 13 mm | 15 cm |
| March | 3.5°C | −11.7°C | −4.1°C | 21 mm | 23 cm |
| April | 9.7°C | −4.7°C | 2.5°C | 30 mm | 18 cm |
| May | 15.6°C | 0.3°C | 8.0°C | 63 mm | 10 cm |
| June | 19.3°C | 4.9°C | 12.1°C | 104 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 22.8°C | 7.7°C | 15.3°C | 85 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 22.0°C | 6.2°C | 14.1°C | 71 mm | under 1 cm |
| September | 17.4°C | 1.4°C | 9.4°C | 47 mm | 2 cm |
| October | 10.9°C | −4.5°C | 3.2°C | 20 mm | 10 cm |
| November | 3.4°C | −11.5°C | −4.1°C | 16 mm | 20 cm |
| December | −1.4°C | −17.2°C | −9.3°C | 16 mm | 19 cm |
| Year | 10.2°C | −5.4°C | 2.4°C | 496 mm | 138 cm |
December has run from −45.9°C to 18.6°C in thirty years
Year to year, February varies most (a standard deviation of 4.2°C around −8.3°C) and June least (0.9°C).
Where Didsbury’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: 1991–2020 normals for Sundre from ECCC’s climate data site, the nearest location with every month of temperature.
- Other locations: where a location publishes no full year of precipitation or snowfall, the nearest one that does supplies it, named beside those figures.
- 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, 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 Didsbury’s climate
How warm does Didsbury get in summer?
Midsummer means July, with afternoons near 22.8°C on a typical day.
How cold does Didsbury get in winter?
A typical January night falls to −18.0°C, the year’s low point.
How much rain and snow does Didsbury get?
Some 496 mm falls in a year. Most of it comes in June (104 mm), the least in January (13 mm).
Are these figures for Didsbury itself?
No. ECCC measures normals at Sundre, not in Didsbury; the page uses the nearest it has.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Didsbury →
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).