Glenridding Heights is among the frostiest of Canadian towns
The warmest part of a July day comes in at 23.0°C on average. By July afternoons alone, it runs cooler than 90% of Canadian towns. The year is lopsided: July gets about 7.0 times what February does. About 78 days a year bring 1 mm of precipitation or more.
Read at Edmonton (Airport), 11 km south: ECCC’s normals for 1991–2020.
A year in Glenridding Heights at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Glenridding Heights’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Alberta beside it.
What a year in Glenridding Heights feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
Frost on 211 days, 20°C on 90
Frost comes from September to May; in January almost every night freezes. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 38 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
434 mm of precipitation in a typical year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 127 cm in a normal year
Expect snow from October to May, with about 24 cm in January, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Glenridding Heights
87% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
A heating degree day is one degree of shortfall below 18°C for one day, summed over the year. Over a year, a home here needs more heating than 93% of Canadian towns.
Living with Glenridding Heights’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Gardens get from about 27 May to 10 September without frost, around 105 days in all.
The comfortable months for a day outside, highs of 17–27°C and nights of 8°C or more: Jul.
Parks & trails →Frostbite weather, a wind chill under −20, turns up on about 67 days a year.
On some 11 days a year the humidex climbs past 30.
The normals describe a typical year, not its worst days; the hazards page covers Glenridding Heights’s.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Edmonton (Airport)
Edmonton (Airport) is a composite: ECCC joins 3 stations’ readings to make its 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 11 km south |
| Station altitude | 723 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −46.1°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.6°C |
| Average wind | 12.5 km/h on average, most often from the south |
| Next-nearest location | Edmonton (City), 17 km |
How Glenridding Heights compares
Placed among 2,611 Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+, each on its nearest normals location; each dot is another location used in Alberta.
Nearby towns’ climate
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Glenridding Heights’s own would show the same figures). The nearest place to Glenridding Heights with figures is 12 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glenridding Heights Edmonton (Airport) | 23.0°C | −18.1°C | 434 mm |
| Enoch Cree Nation 12 km · Edmonton (City) | 23.5°C 0.5°C warmer | −14.7°C 3.4°C milder | 423 mm |
Glenridding Heights weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −6.5°C | −18.1°C | −12.3°C | 22 mm | 24 cm |
| February | −4.1°C | −16.6°C | −10.4°C | 12 mm | 14 cm |
| March | 0.5°C | −11.2°C | −5.3°C | 17 mm | 19 cm |
| April | 10.1°C | −3.2°C | 3.5°C | 30 mm | 16 cm |
| May | 17.6°C | 2.7°C | 10.1°C | 47 mm | 6 cm |
| June | 20.7°C | 7.5°C | 14.1°C | 75 mm | under 1 cm |
| July | 23.0°C | 9.4°C | 16.2°C | 87 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 22.4°C | 7.8°C | 15.1°C | 53 mm | under 1 cm |
| September | 17.8°C | 2.8°C | 10.3°C | 35 mm | 1 cm |
| October | 10.0°C | −3.3°C | 3.4°C | 22 mm | 10 cm |
| November | 0.2°C | −10.6°C | −5.2°C | 20 mm | 19 cm |
| December | −5.3°C | −16.7°C | −11.0°C | 15 mm | 16 cm |
| Year | 8.9°C | −4.1°C | 2.4°C | 434 mm | 127 cm |
In March, anything from −42.7°C to 24.2°C
Bars run from each month’s record low to its record high over 1991–2020; February is the month whose average wanders most from year to year (±4.3°C around −10.4°C), June the one that wanders least (±0.9°C).
Where Glenridding Heights’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the Canadian Climate Normals, 1991–2020, at Edmonton (Airport) (the closest location with all twelve months of temperatures).
- Comparisons: Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of at least 2,500, each placed by its nearest location (city totals and reserves excluded).
- 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 Glenridding Heights’s climate
How warm does Glenridding Heights get in summer?
Midsummer means July, with afternoons near 23.0°C on a typical day.
How cold does Glenridding Heights get in winter?
The year’s coldest nights belong to January, at about −18.1°C.
How much rain and snow does Glenridding Heights get?
A normal year brings 434 mm, snow included as water: July is wettest at 87 mm, February driest at 12 mm.
How long does snow stay on the ground?
In a normal winter there are about 145 days with at least 1 cm of snow lying.
Are these figures for Glenridding Heights itself?
Nearly: Edmonton (Airport), the location behind them, sits just beyond Glenridding Heights’s boundary.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Glenridding Heights →
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).