Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Few Canadian towns get more snow than Campbellton: about 337 cm a year
Sunny July days climb to about 23.8°C. By January nights alone, it runs colder than 77% of Canadian towns. July is the wettest month, February the driest. The outdoor season runs from June to August, with highs of 21–24°C.
These are not Campbellton’s own readings: ECCC keeps no normals there, so the page uses Charlo, 26 km east.
A year in Campbellton at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Campbellton’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in New Brunswick beside it.
What a year in Campbellton feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
Frost on 182 days, 20°C on 82
From September to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 23 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
1,011 mm of precipitation in a typical year
Some 130 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 337 cm in a normal year
Expect snow from October to May, with about 71 cm in January, the snowiest month. 5th snowiest of 60 towns of 2,500+ in New Brunswick.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Charlo publishes no full year of snowfall, so these figures come from Bathurst, 80 km away.
Heating a home in Campbellton
88% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
Warm days count for nothing; each colder day adds how far its mean sits below 18°C. Over a year, a home here needs more heating than 81% of Canadian towns.
Living with Campbellton’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Gardens get from about 18 May to 1 October without frost, around 135 days in all.
For long days outdoors, Jun, Jul and Aug bring highs of 17–27°C and lows of 8°C or more.
Parks & trails →Bitter wind chill, under −20, comes on about 56 days a year.
About 21 days a year turn sultry, with the humidex past 30.
Averages smooth over blizzards, ice storms, floods and heat waves; Campbellton’s hazards page covers the risks.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Charlo
ECCC builds the Charlo normals from 2 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 26 km east |
| Station altitude | 40 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Bathurst, 80 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −31.9°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 36.7°C |
| Average wind | 13.2 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Causapscal, 58 km |
How Campbellton compares
Against the 2,611 Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, each read from its own normals location; the dots are the other locations those towns use in New Brunswick.
Nearby towns’ climate
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Campbellton’s would only repeat its figures. No closer places have figures: these lie 58–75 km from Campbellton.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Campbellton Charlo | 23.8°C | −16.2°C | 1,011 mm |
| Causapscal 58 km · Causapscal | 23.8°C about the same | −19.2°C 3.0°C colder | 932 mm |
| Kedgwick 64 km · St. Leonard | 24.2°C about the same | −17.9°C 1.7°C colder | 1,128 mm |
| Beresford 72 km · Bathurst | 25.1°C 1.3°C warmer | −16.0°C about the same | 1,118 mm |
Campbellton 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 | −7.0°C | −16.2°C | −11.7°C | 71 mm | 71 cm |
| February | −5.5°C | −15.6°C | −10.6°C | 65 mm | 69 cm |
| March | 0.0°C | −9.8°C | −4.9°C | 79 mm | 68 cm |
| April | 6.5°C | −2.5°C | 2.0°C | 69 mm | 30 cm |
| May | 14.8°C | 3.4°C | 9.2°C | 92 mm | 2 cm |
| June | 20.5°C | 9.2°C | 14.8°C | 90 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 23.8°C | 13.0°C | 18.4°C | 104 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 23.2°C | 12.1°C | 17.7°C | 82 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 18.2°C | 7.3°C | 12.8°C | 101 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 10.7°C | 2.1°C | 6.4°C | 94 mm | 6 cm |
| November | 3.5°C | −3.6°C | −0.1°C | 87 mm | 22 cm |
| December | −3.0°C | −10.6°C | −6.8°C | 76 mm | 68 cm |
| Year | 8.8°C | −0.9°C | 3.9°C | 1,011 mm | 337 cm |
February varies most from one year to the next (2.7°C), August least
Bars run from each month’s record low to its record high since 1991. March spans the most, from −30.1°C (2001) to 22.6°C (2012).
Where Campbellton’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 normals from ECCC for Charlo, its nearest location with complete temperatures.
- 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: a sunshine figure (ECCC published none for 1991–2020) and any lapse-rate correction for height, as the town has no elevation here.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Campbellton’s climate
How warm does Campbellton get in summer?
Expect highs near 23.8°C in July, the hottest month on average.
How cold does Campbellton get in winter?
The year’s coldest nights belong to January, at about −16.2°C.
How much rain and snow does Campbellton get?
Around 1,011 mm a year in all, from 104 mm in July down to 65 mm in February.
Are these figures for Campbellton itself?
No, they come from Charlo; ECCC keeps no 1991–2020 normals in Campbellton itself.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Campbellton →
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).