Hardly any Canadian towns wake to more frost than Vegreville
July afternoons average 23.5°C. Temperatures cover 43°C across the year, low to high. It is a dry place: less rain and snow fall here than on 96% of Canadian towns. For walks and days out, July and August bring highs of 23–24°C.
Figures: ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals at Vegreville (3.6 km north-west).
A year in Vegreville at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Vegreville’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Alberta beside it.
What a year in Vegreville 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. On about 43 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
388 mm of precipitation in a typical year
July is the wettest month and February the driest. On about 78 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
About 132 cm of snow a year
Snow falls from October to May, most of all in January (about 30 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snowfall: Fort Saskatchewan, 79 km away (Vegreville records no complete year of it).
Heating a home in Vegreville
88% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Degree days add up how far each day’s mean temperature falls below 18°C over a year. That means homes here need more heating than 97% of Canadian towns.
Living with Vegreville’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Gardens get from about 24 May to 10 September without frost, around 108 days in all.
Afternoons of 17–27°C and nights of at least 8°C arrive in Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Winter brings about 77 days with a wind chill below −20.
Summer brings about 11 days when the humidex passes 30.
Extremes don’t show in averages: floods, wildfire smoke and ice storms are on Vegreville’s 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 | 3.6 km north-west |
| Station altitude | 639 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Fort Saskatchewan, 79 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 | Camrose, 71 km |
How Vegreville 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 Vegreville’s would only repeat its figures. The nearest places to Vegreville with figures are 42–73 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vegreville | 23.5°C | −19.0°C | 388 mm |
| Tofield 42 km · Camrose | 23.1°C about the same | −17.8°C 1.2°C milder | 378 mm |
| Lamont 57 km · Fort Saskatchewan | 23.6°C about the same | −17.8°C 1.2°C milder | 473 mm |
| Smoky Lake County 73 km · Lac la Biche | 23.1°C about the same | −19.1°C about the same | 388 mm |
Vegreville weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and 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 |
Two years in three, December’s average lands within 4.3°C of normal, against the steadier June
Bars run from each month’s record low to its record high since 1991. March spans the most, from −42.2°C (2009) to 19.7°C (2015).
Where Vegreville’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the Canadian Climate Normals, 1991–2020, at Vegreville (the closest location with all twelve months of temperatures).
- Other locations: a location missing months of precipitation or snow is filled from the nearest that has them all, never mixed month by month.
- Comparisons: Canada’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ (no city totals, no reserves), each through its own nearest 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 Vegreville’s climate
How warm does Vegreville get in summer?
Expect highs near 23.5°C in July, the hottest month on average.
How cold does Vegreville get in winter?
On a normal January night the air drops to −19.0°C, the coldest of the year.
How much rain and snow does Vegreville get?
Measured as water, a year brings 388 mm: 71 mm in July, the wettest month, and 12 mm in February, the driest.
Are these figures for Vegreville itself?
Yes, from ECCC’s station within Vegreville’s boundary.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Vegreville →
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).