Photo: dfaulder · CC BY 2.0Few Canadian towns get more frosts than Two Hills
Midsummer highs settle at about 23.5°C. It is a dry place: less rain and snow fall here than on 96% of Canadian towns. Precipitation follows the seasons: July brings about 6.0 times as much as February. The outdoor season, with highs of 23–24°C, runs through July and August.
These are not Two Hills’s own readings: ECCC keeps no normals there, so the page uses Vegreville, 33 km south-west.
A year in Two Hills at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Two Hills’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Alberta beside it.
What a year in Two Hills feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on 209 days, 20°C on 93
From September to May frost is routine, and in December it comes on almost every night. Some 43 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
Rain and melted snow: about 388 mm a year
On about 78 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
132 cm of snow in a typical year
Snow falls from October to May, most of all in January (about 30 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
ECCC’s Vegreville normals leave snowfall out; the figures here come from Fort Saskatchewan, 95 km away.
Heating a home in Two Hills
88% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
A day averaging 10 degrees under 18°C adds 10 to the total; warm days add nothing. By this count, homes here need more heating than 97% of Canadian towns.
Living with Two Hills’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
On average the last spring frost comes around 24 May and the first autumn frost around 10 September: about 108 frost-free days between.
For long days outdoors, Jul and Aug bring highs of 17–27°C and lows of 8°C or more.
Parks & trails →Count on some 77 days a year when the wind makes it feel below −20.
Summer brings about 11 days when the humidex passes 30.
Bad-weather days, from blizzards to floods, get their own page for Two Hills: the hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Vegreville
The page’s figures are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Vegreville, one of its 450 normals locations.
| Distance from the town | 33 km south-west |
| Station altitude | 639 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Fort Saskatchewan, 95 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −46.9°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.7°C |
| Average wind | 13.3 km/h on average, most often from the south |
| Next-nearest location | Fort Saskatchewan, 95 km |
How Two Hills 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
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Two Hills’s would only repeat its figures. No closer places have figures: these lie 50–68 km from Two Hills.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Two Hills Vegreville | 23.5°C | −19.0°C | 388 mm |
| St. Paul County No. 19 50 km · Cold Lake | 23.6°C about the same | −19.6°C 0.6°C colder | 437 mm |
| Smoky Lake County 55 km · Lac la Biche | 23.1°C about the same | −19.1°C about the same | 388 mm |
| Smoky Lake 65 km · Fort Saskatchewan | 23.6°C about the same | −17.8°C 1.2°C milder | 473 mm |
Two Hills 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 | −8.1°C | −19.0°C | −13.5°C | 19 mm | 30 cm |
| February | −5.5°C | −17.4°C | −11.4°C | 12 mm | 13 cm |
| March | −0.4°C | −11.3°C | −5.9°C | 17 mm | 21 cm |
| April | 9.9°C | −2.9°C | 3.5°C | 28 mm | 8 cm |
| May | 17.7°C | 2.9°C | 10.3°C | 41 mm | 2 cm |
| June | 21.2°C | 7.9°C | 14.6°C | 60 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 23.5°C | 10.2°C | 16.9°C | 71 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 22.9°C | 8.4°C | 15.6°C | 50 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 18.0°C | 3.2°C | 10.6°C | 35 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 9.6°C | −3.1°C | 3.2°C | 23 mm | 8 cm |
| November | −0.6°C | −11.0°C | −5.8°C | 17 mm | 27 cm |
| December | −6.7°C | −17.7°C | −12.3°C | 16 mm | 23 cm |
| Year | 8.5°C | −4.2°C | 2.2°C | 388 mm | 132 cm |
March: −42.2°C at its coldest, 19.7°C at its warmest
From one year to the next, December’s average typically shifts by 4.3°C around its normal of −12.3°C, the widest of any month, while June’s shifts by 1.1°C.
Where Two Hills’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals, Vegreville: the nearest of its locations with every month’s temperatures.
- Other locations: precipitation and snowfall come from the nearest location that publishes all twelve months of them, as named above.
- Comparisons: all Canadian places of 2,500 or more except city totals and reserves, each read the same way.
- Not on this page: sunshine (no 1991–2020 normals exist for it) and any altitude adjustment, since there is no elevation for the town itself.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Two Hills’s climate
How warm does Two Hills get in summer?
A normal July afternoon tops out at about 23.5°C, the year’s high point.
How cold does Two Hills get in winter?
January nights average −19.0°C, the coldest of the year.
How much rain and snow does Two Hills get?
The yearly total is about 388 mm. July gets 71 mm, the most of any month; February gets 12 mm, the least.
Are these figures for Two Hills itself?
The figures are ECCC’s for Vegreville; Two Hills has no normals station.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Two Hills →
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).