Precipitation in Kernohan trails that of 90% of Canadian towns: 423 mm a year
Nights in January average −14.7°C. Some 38°C separates winter nights from summer afternoons. By July afternoons alone, it runs cooler than 80% of Canadian towns. Plan for rain or snow on about 72 days a year, the days with 1 mm or more.
Figures: ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Edmonton (City) (9.6 km west).
A year in Kernohan at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Kernohan’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Alberta beside it.
What a year in Kernohan feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
179 frost days and 90 days above 20°C a year
Frost comes from September to May; in January almost every night freezes. On about 24 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
423 mm of precipitation in a typical year
The most falls in July, the least in February.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
About 124 cm of snow a year
Expect snow from October to May, with about 26 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 Kernohan
89% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Each day the mean sits under 18°C adds its shortfall; a year’s total is its heating degree days. A house here needs more heating than 76% of Canadian towns.
Living with Kernohan’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
A normal year gives the garden about 141 frost-free days, roughly 7 May to 25 September.
Highs of 17–27°C with nights of 8°C or more come in Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →The wind chill passes −20 on about 50 days in a normal year.
Roughly 11 days a year feel hotter than 30 once humidity is counted.
Storms, floods and heat waves sit outside these normals; Kernohan’s hazards page covers them.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Edmonton (City)
ECCC builds the Edmonton (City) normals from 3 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 9.6 km west |
| 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 | Fort Saskatchewan, 19 km |
How Kernohan 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
Places around Kernohan whose figures come from another normals location. Distances here run 14–27 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Kernohan.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kernohan Edmonton (City) | 23.5°C | −14.7°C | 423 mm |
| Fort Saskatchewan 14 km · Fort Saskatchewan | 23.6°C about the same | −17.8°C 3.1°C colder | 473 mm |
| Beaumont 27 km · Edmonton (Airport) | 23.0°C 0.5°C cooler | −18.1°C 3.4°C colder | 434 mm |
Kernohan weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| 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 year to year, February moves by 4.2°C, more than any month, and June least
March has the widest record range, −34.0°C in 2003 to 23.9°C in 2004; the tick on each bar is the month’s normal.
Where Kernohan’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals at Edmonton (City), the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals.
- Comparisons: every place of 2,500+ in Canada but the city hubs and the reserves, each on its nearest ECCC location.
- 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 Kernohan’s climate
How warm does Kernohan get in summer?
Afternoons average 23.5°C in July, the warmest time of year.
How cold does Kernohan get in winter?
January nights average −14.7°C, the coldest of the year.
How much rain and snow does Kernohan get?
Over twelve months, rain and melted snow come to 423 mm; the range runs from 12 mm in February to 83 mm in July.
Are these figures for Kernohan itself?
They are the normals for Edmonton (City), measured just outside Kernohan itself.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Kernohan →
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).