Less rain and snow fall on Garneau than on 90% of Canadian towns: 423 mm a year
January mornings start at about −14.7°C. The year swings widely: the coldest month’s nights and the warmest month’s afternoons are 38°C apart. Summers stay cool: July afternoons here are cooler than in 80% of Canadian towns. Expect about 179 frosty starts a year, days when the air falls to freezing.
Read at Edmonton (City), 5.5 km north: ECCC’s normals for 1991–2020.
A year in Garneau at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Garneau’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Alberta beside it.
What a year in Garneau feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
About 179 frosts and 90 warm days a year
From September to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 24 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
Rain and melted snow: about 423 mm a year
The most falls in July, the least in February. 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
Snowfall: about 124 cm in a normal year
Snow falls from October to May, most of all in January (about 26 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Garneau
89% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
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 76% of Canadian towns.
Living with Garneau’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 7 May, has passed; autumn’s first, near 25 September, ends a season of about 141 days.
Plan time outside for Jun, Jul and Aug: highs of 17–27°C and nights no colder than 8°C.
Parks & trails →Expect around 50 days a year when the wind chill sinks below −20.
Summer brings about 11 days when the humidex passes 30.
Ice storms, floods and heat waves are risks, not averages: they are on Garneau’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Edmonton (City)
Edmonton (City) is a composite: ECCC joins 3 stations’ readings to make its 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 5.5 km north |
| Station altitude | 671 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −37.8°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 34.9°C |
| Average wind | 12.2 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Edmonton (Airport), 23 km |
How Garneau 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 Garneau’s would only repeat its figures. Garneau has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 20–29 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garneau Edmonton (City) | 23.5°C | −14.7°C | 423 mm |
| Beaumont 20 km · Edmonton (Airport) | 23.0°C 0.5°C cooler | −18.1°C 3.4°C colder | 434 mm |
| Fort Saskatchewan 26 km · Fort Saskatchewan | 23.6°C about the same | −17.8°C 3.1°C colder | 473 mm |
Garneau weather by month
Average daily high and low, mean temperature, rain and snow (as water) and snowfall by month, 1991–2020.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −5.8°C | −14.7°C | −10.3°C | 20 mm | 26 cm |
| February | −3.0°C | −12.7°C | −7.9°C | 12 mm | 13 cm |
| March | 1.7°C | −7.8°C | −3.1°C | 17 mm | 19 cm |
| April | 10.4°C | −0.7°C | 4.9°C | 29 mm | 15 cm |
| May | 17.5°C | 5.6°C | 11.6°C | 44 mm | 5 cm |
| June | 21.0°C | 10.2°C | 15.6°C | 70 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 23.5°C | 12.6°C | 18.1°C | 83 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 22.6°C | 11.3°C | 17.0°C | 61 mm | under 1 cm |
| September | 17.6°C | 6.2°C | 11.9°C | 39 mm | 1 cm |
| October | 10.0°C | −0.1°C | 5.0°C | 21 mm | 11 cm |
| November | 0.6°C | −7.5°C | −3.5°C | 18 mm | 20 cm |
| December | −4.7°C | −13.2°C | −9.0°C | 12 mm | 15 cm |
| Year | 9.3°C | −0.9°C | 4.2°C | 423 mm | 124 cm |
From −34.0°C to 23.9°C: March’s coldest and warmest days since 1991
Year to year, February varies most (a standard deviation of 4.2°C around −7.9°C) and June least (1.0°C).
Where Garneau’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals for Edmonton (City), 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: 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 Garneau’s climate
How warm does Garneau get in summer?
Of all twelve months, July has the warmest afternoons, about 23.5°C.
How cold does Garneau get in winter?
Deep winter means January, when nights average −14.7°C.
How much rain and snow does Garneau get?
July is the wettest month at 83 mm and February the driest at 12 mm, for 423 mm over the year.
Are these figures for Garneau itself?
Close to it: they are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Edmonton (City), just outside Garneau’s boundary.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Garneau →
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).