Photo: dave_7 from Lethbridge, Canada · CC BY 2.0Taber is among the driest of Canadian towns: 373 mm of rain and snow a year
In January the night’s low is typically −14.1°C. The wettest month is June; the driest is February. Summer afternoons here are warmer than in 83% of Canadian towns. Wet days, with 1 mm of rain or snow or more, come about 69 times a year.
Figures: ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals at Vauxhall (16 km north).
A year in Taber at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Taber’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Alberta beside it.
What a year in Taber feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
Frost on 182 days, 20°C on 117
Frost comes from September to May; in December almost every night freezes. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 26 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 373 mm a year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Vauxhall publishes no full year of precipitation or snowfall, so these figures, and the snow below, come from Lethbridge, 57 km away.
About 108 cm of snow a year
Expect snow from August to May, with about 18 cm in March, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Heating a home in Taber
89% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Think of it as a year’s worth of daily shortfalls below 18°C, added up.
Living with Taber’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
A normal year gives the garden about 126 frost-free days, roughly 15 May to 19 September.
Highs of 17–27°C with nights of 8°C or more come in Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →On some 49 days a year the wind chill drops past −20; mitts and a scarf earn their place.
Plan shade and water for about 31 days a year above 30 on the humidex.
For blizzards, floods and wildfire, turn to Taber’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Vauxhall
The page’s figures are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Vauxhall, one of its 450 normals locations.
| Distance from the town | 16 km north |
| Station altitude | 779 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Lethbridge, 57 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −44.2°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 39.9°C |
| Average wind | 14.6 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Lethbridge, 57 km |
How Taber 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
Places around Taber whose figures come from another normals location. The nearest place to Taber with figures is 41 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taber Vauxhall | 26.8°C | −14.1°C | 373 mm |
| Coaldale 41 km · Lethbridge | 26.3°C 0.5°C cooler | −12.1°C 2.0°C milder | 373 mm |
Taber 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 | −2.2°C | −14.1°C | −8.1°C | 11 mm | 13 cm |
| February | 0.1°C | −12.8°C | −6.4°C | 10 mm | 15 cm |
| March | 5.4°C | −7.5°C | −1.1°C | 17 mm | 18 cm |
| April | 12.7°C | −1.3°C | 5.7°C | 28 mm | 13 cm |
| May | 18.6°C | 4.3°C | 11.5°C | 57 mm | 5 cm |
| June | 22.4°C | 8.8°C | 15.6°C | 93 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 26.8°C | 10.9°C | 18.8°C | 40 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 26.5°C | 9.7°C | 18.1°C | 33 mm | 1 cm |
| September | 21.0°C | 5.1°C | 13.1°C | 32 mm | 1 cm |
| October | 13.1°C | −1.0°C | 6.1°C | 24 mm | 10 cm |
| November | 4.8°C | −7.6°C | −1.4°C | 16 mm | 16 cm |
| December | −1.1°C | −13.0°C | −7.1°C | 12 mm | 15 cm |
| Year | 12.3°C | −1.6°C | 5.4°C | 373 mm | 108 cm |
February strays furthest from its normal year to year, by 5.3°C; June the least
March has the widest record range, −40.2°C in 2019 to 27.4°C in 2004; the tick on each bar is the month’s normal.
Where Taber’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals at Vauxhall, the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals.
- Other locations: where a location publishes no full year of precipitation or snowfall, the nearest one that does supplies it, named beside those figures.
- 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 Taber’s climate
How warm does Taber get in summer?
Summer peaks in July: a typical afternoon reaches 26.8°C.
How cold does Taber get in winter?
The year’s coldest nights belong to January, at about −14.1°C.
How much rain and snow does Taber get?
Rain and snow add up to about 373 mm of water a year; June brings the most (93 mm), February the least (10 mm).
Are these figures for Taber itself?
Yes, measured at Vauxhall, which sits inside Taber’s boundary.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Taber →
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).