Photo: Dr Wilson · CC BY-SA 3.0Few Canadian towns get more snow than Kedgwick: about 329 cm a year
Deep winter brings January lows near −17.9°C. It is a wet place: more rain and snow fall here than on 83% of Canadian towns. The year swings widely: the coldest month’s nights and the warmest month’s afternoons are 42°C apart. Expect about 192 frosty starts a year, days when the air falls to freezing.
Kedgwick has no ECCC normals station nearby: the figures come from St. Leonard, 65 km south-west, so read them as the wider area’s climate.
A year in Kedgwick at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Kedgwick’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in New Brunswick beside it.
What a year in Kedgwick feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
About 192 frosts and 93 warm days a year
The frost season runs September to May, and January freezes nearly every night. On about 33 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
1,128 mm of precipitation in a typical year
July brings the most rain and snow; February, the least. About 131 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
About 329 cm of snow a year
The snow season runs October to May; February brings the most, about 70 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Kedgwick
88% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Warm days count for nothing; each colder day adds how far its mean sits below 18°C. That means homes here need more heating than 82% of Canadian towns.
Living with Kedgwick’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Seedlings can go out once the average last frost, around 21 May, has passed; autumn’s first, near 15 September, ends a season of about 116 days.
Highs of 17–27°C with nights of 8°C or more come in Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →A wind chill below −20 is part of about 57 days a year here.
Muggy heat with a humidex over 30 arrives on about 24 days a year.
The normals describe a typical year, not its worst days; the hazards page covers Kedgwick’s.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: St. Leonard
St. Leonard is a composite: ECCC joins 2 stations’ readings to make its 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 65 km south-west |
| Station altitude | 242 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −38.8°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 34.6°C |
| Average wind | 11.4 km/h on average, most often from the north-west |
| Next-nearest location | Upsalquitch Lake, 73 km |
How Kedgwick 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
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Kedgwick’s own would show the same figures). The nearest places to Kedgwick with figures are 56–76 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kedgwick St. Leonard | 24.2°C | −17.9°C | 1,128 mm |
| Atholville 56 km · Charlo | 23.8°C about the same | −16.2°C 1.7°C milder | 1,011 mm |
| Saint-Joseph 76 km · Edmundston | 25.0°C 0.8°C warmer | −19.1°C 1.2°C colder | 1,012 mm |
Kedgwick weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −7.1°C | −17.9°C | −12.5°C | 85 mm | 70 cm |
| February | −5.4°C | −16.8°C | −11.1°C | 73 mm | 70 cm |
| March | 0.6°C | −10.5°C | −4.9°C | 83 mm | 64 cm |
| April | 8.0°C | −2.9°C | 2.6°C | 83 mm | 26 cm |
| May | 16.6°C | 3.6°C | 10.1°C | 95 mm | 2 cm |
| June | 21.7°C | 8.6°C | 15.2°C | 108 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 24.2°C | 11.9°C | 18.1°C | 115 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 23.5°C | 10.6°C | 17.1°C | 102 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 18.8°C | 6.1°C | 12.5°C | 96 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 10.7°C | 0.6°C | 5.7°C | 103 mm | 7 cm |
| November | 3.6°C | −4.8°C | −0.6°C | 92 mm | 25 cm |
| December | −3.3°C | −12.3°C | −7.8°C | 93 mm | 66 cm |
| Year | 9.3°C | −2.0°C | 3.7°C | 1,128 mm | 329 cm |
A January here can run warm or cold, its average moving by about 2.7°C; the steadiest month is August
Each bar spans a month’s coldest and warmest readings over thirty years; March’s run from −33.6°C in 2001 to 24.1°C in 2012.
Where Kedgwick’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 normals from ECCC for St. Leonard, its nearest location with complete temperatures.
- Comparisons: the 2,500-plus towns and neighbourhoods of Canada, each read from its closest normals location; whole cities and reserves aren’t counted.
- Not on this page: sunshine, absent from every 1991–2020 location, and an altitude correction, for want of the town’s own elevation.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Kedgwick’s climate
How warm does Kedgwick get in summer?
Peak warmth comes in July, at about 24.2°C by mid-afternoon.
How cold does Kedgwick get in winter?
Lows sink to −17.9°C on an average January night.
How much rain and snow does Kedgwick get?
Precipitation totals 1,128 mm a year, with July the wettest month (115 mm) and February the driest (73 mm).
How long does snow stay on the ground?
Roughly 151 days a year start with snow cover of 1 cm or more.
Are these figures for Kedgwick itself?
They are the figures for St. Leonard, which read better as the region’s climate than Kedgwick’s own.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Kedgwick →
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).