Photo: Miguel Tremblay · Public domainFrosty mornings in Lamont outnumber those of 90% of Canadian towns
High summer brings afternoon highs near 23.6°C. Precipitation follows the seasons: July brings about 5.7 times as much as February. Counting rain and snow together, it is drier than 77% of Canadian towns. Wet days, with 1 mm of rain or snow or more, come about 84 times a year.
Borrowed figures: Lamont has no normals station, so these come from Fort Saskatchewan, 27 km west.
A year in Lamont at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Lamont’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Alberta beside it.
What a year in Lamont feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on about 199 days a year
Frost comes from September to May; in January almost every night freezes. Some 33 nights a year drop under −20°C.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
473 mm of precipitation in a typical year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 132 cm in a normal year
Expect snow from October to May, with about 30 cm in January, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Living with Lamont’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Plan time outside for Jun, Jul and Aug: highs of 17–27°C and nights no colder than 8°C.
Parks & trails →Ice storms, floods and heat waves are risks, not averages: they are on Lamont’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Fort Saskatchewan
Every temperature, frost, snow and degree-day figure on this page is the 1991–2020 normal ECCC publishes for Fort Saskatchewan.
| Distance from the town | 27 km west |
| Station altitude | 620 m |
| Completeness | at least 15 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −47.5°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 36.5°C |
| Next-nearest location | Vegreville, 53 km |
How Lamont 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 Lamont whose figures come from another normals location. Distances here run 15–45 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Lamont.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lamont Fort Saskatchewan | 23.6°C | −17.8°C | 473 mm |
| Lamont County 15 km · Vegreville | 23.5°C about the same | −19.0°C 1.2°C colder | 388 mm |
| Strathcona County 41 km · Edmonton (City) | 23.5°C about the same | −14.7°C 3.1°C milder | 423 mm |
| Tofield 45 km · Camrose | 23.1°C 0.5°C cooler | −17.8°C about the same | 378 mm |
Lamont 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 | −6.4°C | −17.8°C | −12.8°C | 30 mm | 30 cm |
| February | −3.1°C | −15.2°C | −9.2°C | 14 mm | 13 cm |
| March | 1.9°C | −9.5°C | −4.0°C | 22 mm | 21 cm |
| April | 10.9°C | −1.9°C | 4.7°C | 27 mm | 8 cm |
| May | 17.8°C | 4.1°C | 10.9°C | 49 mm | 2 cm |
| June | 21.3°C | 8.6°C | 14.9°C | 78 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 23.6°C | 11.0°C | 17.3°C | 82 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 23.1°C | 9.7°C | 16.3°C | 56 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 18.3°C | 4.5°C | 11.4°C | 39 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 10.4°C | −1.4°C | 4.4°C | 23 mm | 8 cm |
| November | 0.9°C | −9.6°C | −4.3°C | 29 mm | 27 cm |
| December | −5.0°C | −15.4°C | −10.2°C | 23 mm | 23 cm |
| Year | 9.5°C | −2.7°C | 3.3°C | 473 mm | 132 cm |
From year to year, January moves by 4.3°C, more than any month, and June least
January has the widest record range, −42.5°C in 2004 to 26.0°C in 2010; the tick on each bar is the month’s normal.
Where Lamont’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals at Fort Saskatchewan, the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals.
- Comparisons: the towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ across Canada, each on its nearest normals location, without the city totals or the reserves.
- 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 Lamont’s climate
How warm does Lamont get in summer?
Of all twelve months, July has the warmest afternoons, about 23.6°C.
How cold does Lamont get in winter?
Expect nights around −17.8°C in January; no month is colder.
How much rain and snow does Lamont get?
About 473 mm a year, rain and melted snow together. July is the wettest month (82 mm) and February the driest (14 mm).
Are these figures for Lamont itself?
Not directly: Lamont has no ECCC normals of its own, and Fort Saskatchewan stands in for it.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Lamont →
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).