Photo: Themightyquill · CC BY-SA 2.5Hardly any Canadian towns collect less precipitation than Ashcroft: 273 mm a year
January nights here settle around −9.8°C. The gap between a January night and a July afternoon is 34°C. Frosty nights outnumber those of 91% of Canadian towns. The heating season runs October to May: each of those months averages under 10°C.
Borrowed figures: Ashcroft has no normals station, so these come from Clinton, 48 km north.
A year in Ashcroft at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Ashcroft’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia beside it.
What a year in Ashcroft feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
203 frost days and 80 days above 20°C a year
The frost season runs September to May, and December freezes nearly every night. On about 11 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
Rain and melted snow: about 273 mm a year
June brings the most rain and snow; February, the least. 252nd wettest of 256 towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia. Some 62 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Clinton publishes no full year of precipitation or snowfall, so these figures, and the snow below, come from Kamloops, 59 km away.
63 cm of snow in a typical year
Snow falls from November to March, most of all in December (about 20 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Heating a home in Ashcroft
84% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
ECCC sums, over the year, how many degrees each day’s average falls short of 18°C. By this count, homes here need more heating than 63% of Canadian towns.
Living with Ashcroft’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Afternoons of 17–27°C and nights of at least 8°C arrive in Jul.
Parks & trails →Expect around 19 days a year when the wind chill sinks below −20.
Roughly 7 days a year feel hotter than 30 once humidity is counted.
What averages leave out, the floods and ice storms, is on Ashcroft’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Clinton
ECCC builds the Clinton normals from 3 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 48 km north |
| Station altitude | 1,057 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Kamloops, 59 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −35.9°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.2°C |
| Average wind | 7.6 km/h on average, most often from the south |
| Next-nearest location | Kamloops, 59 km |
How Ashcroft compares
Compared with 2,611 towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more across Canada; the dots mark the other normals locations in British Columbia.
Nearby towns’ climate
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Ashcroft’s would only repeat its figures. Ashcroft has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 16–45 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashcroft Clinton | 23.9°C | −9.8°C | 273 mm |
| Electoral Area I (Blue Sky Country), Thompson-Nicola 16 km · Lytton | 29.5°C 5.6°C warmer | −4.1°C 5.7°C milder | 273 mm |
| Logan Lake 42 km · Kamloops | 29.3°C 5.4°C warmer | −5.7°C 4.1°C milder | 273 mm |
Ashcroft 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 | −3.2°C | −9.8°C | −6.5°C | 22 mm | 19 cm |
| February | 0.2°C | −9.0°C | −4.4°C | 12 mm | 8 cm |
| March | 5.2°C | −5.7°C | −0.2°C | 15 mm | 5 cm |
| April | 11.0°C | −2.2°C | 4.4°C | 13 mm | under 1 cm |
| May | 16.5°C | 2.2°C | 9.3°C | 28 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 19.8°C | 5.7°C | 12.7°C | 36 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 23.9°C | 8.4°C | 16.2°C | 30 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 23.7°C | 7.7°C | 15.7°C | 19 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 18.0°C | 3.7°C | 10.9°C | 24 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 9.4°C | −1.1°C | 4.2°C | 23 mm | 1 cm |
| November | 1.2°C | −5.7°C | −2.3°C | 26 mm | 10 cm |
| December | −3.6°C | −9.6°C | −6.6°C | 26 mm | 20 cm |
| Year | 10.2°C | −1.3°C | 4.5°C | 273 mm | 63 cm |
The month with the widest range: March, −28.2°C to 18.9°C
February is the least predictable month: about two years in three its average lands within 3.4°C of the normal, −4.4°C. June is the steadiest, within 1.2°C.
Where Ashcroft’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: 1991–2020 normals for Clinton 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: 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 Ashcroft’s climate
How warm does Ashcroft get in summer?
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 23.9°C.
How cold does Ashcroft get in winter?
At its coldest, in January, the normal low is −9.8°C.
How much rain and snow does Ashcroft get?
273 mm a year counting snow as water. The wettest month is June (36 mm); the driest, February (12 mm).
Are these figures for Ashcroft itself?
They are borrowed from Clinton, the nearest place to Ashcroft where ECCC publishes 1991–2020 normals.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Ashcroft →
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).