Photo: Jason Woodhead · CC BY 4.0Hardly any Canadian towns collect less precipitation than Taber: 373 mm a year
July afternoons average 26.8°C. Summer afternoons here are warmer than in 83% of Canadian towns. The gap between a January night and a July afternoon is 41°C. Heating does most of its work from October to April, in months below 10°C on average.
These are not Taber’s own readings: ECCC keeps no normals there, so the page uses Vauxhall, 29 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
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on 182 days, 20°C on 117
From September to May frost is routine, and in December it comes on almost every night. On about 26 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
373 mm of precipitation in a typical year
The most falls in June, the least in February. On about 69 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Precipitation and snowfall: Lethbridge, 50 km away (Vauxhall records no complete year of either).
About 108 cm of snow a year
The snow season runs August to May; March brings the most, about 18 cm.
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.
One degree below 18°C for one day makes one heating degree day; the year’s days are added together.
Living with Taber’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Plant out after about 15 May; the first frost of autumn usually arrives near 19 September, leaving roughly 126 days without frost.
For long days outdoors, Jun, Jul and Aug bring highs of 17–27°C and lows of 8°C or more.
Parks & trails →Expect around 49 days a year when the wind chill sinks below −20.
Count on some 31 humid days a year with the humidex past 30.
For the weather that does damage, from ice storms to floods, see Taber’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Vauxhall
Vauxhall is one of the 450 places where ECCC publishes 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 29 km north |
| Station altitude | 779 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Lethbridge, 50 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, 50 km |
How Taber compares
Compared with 2,611 towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more across Canada; the dots mark the other normals locations in Alberta.
Nearby towns’ climate
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Taber’s would only repeat its figures. The nearest place to Taber with figures is 35 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taber Vauxhall | 26.8°C | −14.1°C | 373 mm |
| Coaldale 35 km · Lethbridge | 26.3°C 0.5°C cooler | −12.1°C 2.0°C milder | 373 mm |
Taber weather by month
Month by month, 1991–2020: the usual high, low and mean, the rain and snow, and the snowfall.
| 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 |
From −40.2°C to 27.4°C: March’s coldest and warmest days since 1991
Year to year, February varies most (a standard deviation of 5.3°C around −6.4°C) and June least (1.0°C).
Where Taber’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: 1991–2020 normals for Vauxhall from ECCC’s climate data site, the nearest location with every month of temperature.
- 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, which none of ECCC’s 450 locations publishes for 1991–2020, and the town’s own height above sea level, so no figure is adjusted for altitude.
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?
On a normal day in July the thermometer climbs to 26.8°C, the warmest of the year.
How cold does Taber get in winter?
Expect nights around −14.1°C in January; no month is colder.
How much rain and snow does Taber get?
June is the wettest month at 93 mm and February the driest at 10 mm, for 373 mm over the year.
Are these figures for Taber itself?
They come from Vauxhall, which ECCC uses as the nearest normals location for Taber.
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).