Precipitation in Kirkness trails that of 90% of Canadian towns: 423 mm a year
Expect July afternoons of about 23.5°C. Summers stay cool: July afternoons here are cooler than in 80% of Canadian towns. July is the wettest month, February the driest. Ice scrapers and block heaters earn their keep on roughly 179 days a year at 0°C or below.
Figures: ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Edmonton (City) (9.9 km south-west).
A year in Kirkness at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Kirkness’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Alberta beside it.
What a year in Kirkness feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
About 179 frosts and 90 warm days a year
Frost comes from September to May; in January almost every night freezes. Some 24 nights a year drop under −20°C.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
About 423 mm of rain and snow a year
About 72 days a year bring 1 mm 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 Kirkness
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. In heating terms, homes need more heating than 76% of Canadian towns.
Living with Kirkness’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Tender plants are usually safe from around 7 May until frost returns near 25 September: about 141 days.
Highs of 17–27°C with nights of 8°C or more come in Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Wind chill falls below −20 on about 50 days a year: cover skin and dress in layers.
Count on some 11 humid days a year with the humidex past 30.
The normals describe a typical year, not its worst days; the hazards page covers Kirkness’s.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Edmonton (City)
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for Edmonton (City) are 3 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 9.9 km south-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, 18 km |
How Kirkness 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 Kirkness’s would only repeat its figures. Distances here run 13–29 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Kirkness.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kirkness Edmonton (City) | 23.5°C | −14.7°C | 423 mm |
| Fort Saskatchewan 13 km · Fort Saskatchewan | 23.6°C about the same | −17.8°C 3.1°C colder | 473 mm |
| Beaumont 29 km · Edmonton (Airport) | 23.0°C 0.5°C cooler | −18.1°C 3.4°C colder | 434 mm |
Kirkness 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 −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 Kirkness’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: 1991–2020 normals for Edmonton (City) from ECCC’s climate data site, the nearest location with every month of temperature.
- Comparisons: all Canadian places of 2,500 or more except city totals and reserves, each read the same way.
- Not on this page: sunshine, absent from every 1991–2020 location, and an altitude correction, for want of the town’s own elevation.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Kirkness’s climate
How warm does Kirkness get in summer?
Midsummer means July, with afternoons near 23.5°C on a typical day.
How cold does Kirkness get in winter?
A typical January night falls to −14.7°C, the year’s low point.
How much rain and snow does Kirkness get?
Measured as water, a year brings 423 mm: 83 mm in July, the wettest month, and 12 mm in February, the driest.
Are these figures for Kirkness itself?
Close to it: they are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Edmonton (City), just outside Kirkness’s boundary.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Kirkness →
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).