Photo: The original uploader was GreenB1983 at English Wikipedia . · CC BY-SA 3.0Invermere is among the frostiest of Canadian towns
Midsummer highs settle at about 22.5°C. Summers stay cool: July afternoons here are cooler than in 96% of Canadian towns. Precipitation follows the seasons: June brings about 3.9 times as much as February. Wet days, with 1 mm of rain or snow or more, come about 91 times a year.
Invermere has no ECCC normals station nearby: the figures come from Banff, 84 km north-east, so read them as the wider area’s climate.
A year in Invermere at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Invermere’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia beside it.
What a year in Invermere feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
Frost on 220 days, 20°C on 67
From August to June frost is routine, and in December it comes on almost every night. Some 23 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
About 454 mm of rain and snow a year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
184 cm of snow in a typical year
The snow season runs September to June; April brings the most, about 30 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Heating a home in Invermere
82% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: September to May.
The total grows by a degree for every degree a day’s mean sits under 18°C. In heating terms, homes need more heating than 83% of Canadian towns.
Living with Invermere’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
The frost-free stretch runs from about 19 June to about 23 August, some 64 days in a normal year.
The averages never combine highs of 17–27°C with nights of 8°C or more.
Parks & trails →Winter brings about 39 days with a wind chill below −20.
Humid summer days, the humidex above 30, number about 3 a year.
Thirty years of averages say little about one bad storm; Invermere’s hazards page does.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Banff
Banff is a composite: ECCC joins 3 stations’ readings to make its 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 84 km north-east |
| Station altitude | 1,397 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −44.2°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 34.2°C |
| Average wind | 8.2 km/h on average, most often from the south-west |
| Next-nearest location | Cranbrook, 101 km |
How Invermere 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 British Columbia.
Nearby towns’ climate
Places around Invermere whose figures come from another normals location. Invermere has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 78–96 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Invermere Banff | 22.5°C | −13.5°C | 454 mm |
| Electoral Area E, East Kootenay 78 km · Cranbrook | 26.9°C 4.4°C warmer | −10.1°C 3.4°C milder | 386 mm |
| Electoral Area D, Central Kootenay 85 km · Nakusp | 27.4°C 4.9°C warmer | −3.8°C 9.7°C milder | 386 mm |
| Kaslo 91 km · Nelson | 28.5°C 6.0°C warmer | −2.9°C 10.6°C milder | 386 mm |
| Elkford 96 km · Sparwood | 24.9°C 2.4°C warmer | −10.7°C 2.8°C milder | 614 mm |
Invermere 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 | −3.5°C | −13.5°C | −8.5°C | 19 mm | 21 cm |
| February | −0.5°C | −12.6°C | −6.6°C | 19 mm | 20 cm |
| March | 3.7°C | −8.2°C | −2.2°C | 29 mm | 25 cm |
| April | 9.0°C | −3.5°C | 2.8°C | 39 mm | 30 cm |
| May | 14.3°C | 0.5°C | 7.4°C | 50 mm | 12 cm |
| June | 17.9°C | 4.4°C | 11.2°C | 73 mm | 2 cm |
| July | 22.5°C | 6.8°C | 14.7°C | 47 mm | under 1 cm |
| August | 22.1°C | 5.8°C | 14.0°C | 47 mm | under 1 cm |
| September | 16.7°C | 2.2°C | 9.4°C | 45 mm | 8 cm |
| October | 9.1°C | −2.4°C | 3.4°C | 36 mm | 17 cm |
| November | 0.6°C | −8.2°C | −3.8°C | 28 mm | 25 cm |
| December | −4.6°C | −13.4°C | −9.0°C | 23 mm | 23 cm |
| Year | 8.9°C | −3.5°C | 2.7°C | 454 mm | 184 cm |
From year to year, February moves by 4.1°C, more than any month, and June least
March has the widest record range, −38.5°C in 2019 to 20.0°C in 2004; the tick on each bar is the month’s normal.
Where Invermere’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals, Banff: the nearest of its locations with every month’s temperatures.
- 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 Invermere’s climate
How warm does Invermere get in summer?
Midsummer means July, with afternoons near 22.5°C on a typical day.
How cold does Invermere get in winter?
A typical January night falls to −13.5°C, the year’s low point.
How much rain and snow does Invermere get?
Precipitation totals 454 mm a year, with June the wettest month (73 mm) and February the driest (19 mm).
Are these figures for Invermere itself?
They are the figures for Banff, which read better as the region’s climate than Invermere’s own.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Invermere →
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