Precipitation in Kiniski Gardens trails that of 90% of Canadian towns: 423 mm a year
Deep winter brings January lows near −14.7°C. July is the wettest month, February the driest. Summers stay cool: July afternoons here are cooler than in 80% of Canadian towns. Long walks are most pleasant from June to August, when afternoons reach 21–24°C.
1991–2020 normals from ECCC’s Edmonton (City) location, 13 km north-west.
A year in Kiniski Gardens at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Kiniski Gardens’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Alberta beside it.
What a year in Kiniski Gardens 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. 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
About 72 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
About 124 cm of snow a year
From October to May snow is likely; January is the peak, at about 26 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Kiniski Gardens
89% 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. Over a year, a home here needs more heating than 76% of Canadian towns.
Living with Kiniski Gardens’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Wait until about 7 May to plant out; frost tends to come back around 25 September, about 141 days later.
For long days outdoors, Jun, Jul and Aug bring highs of 17–27°C and lows of 8°C or more.
Parks & trails →Roughly 50 days a year feel colder than −20 in the wind.
About 11 days a year feel above 30 on the humidex.
Bad-weather days, from blizzards to floods, get their own page for Kiniski Gardens: the hazards page.
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 | 13 km north-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 | Edmonton (Airport), 21 km |
How Kiniski Gardens 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
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Kiniski Gardens’s own would show the same figures). Distances here run 14–26 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Kiniski Gardens.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kiniski Gardens Edmonton (City) | 23.5°C | −14.7°C | 423 mm |
| Beaumont 14 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 |
Kiniski Gardens 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 |
February strays furthest from its normal year to year, by 4.2°C; June the least
Over 1991–2020, March saw both −34.0°C (2003) and 23.9°C (2004), the widest span of any month.
Where Kiniski Gardens’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: all Canadian places of 2,500 or more except city totals and reserves, each read the same way.
- 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 Kiniski Gardens’s climate
How warm does Kiniski Gardens get in summer?
A normal July afternoon tops out at about 23.5°C, the year’s high point.
How cold does Kiniski Gardens get in winter?
Deep winter means January, when nights average −14.7°C.
How much rain and snow does Kiniski Gardens get?
Rain and snow add up to about 423 mm of water a year; July brings the most (83 mm), February the least (12 mm).
Are these figures for Kiniski Gardens itself?
Nearly: Edmonton (City), the location behind them, sits just beyond Kiniski Gardens’s boundary.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Kiniski Gardens →
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