Photo: Canadian2006 · CC BY-SA 3.0Hardly any Canadian towns collect less precipitation than Biggar: 338 mm a year
July afternoons average 25.2°C. About 209 nights a year bring a frost, more than in 96% of Canadian towns. From frozen January to warm July, readings climb 45°C. Ice scrapers and block heaters earn their keep on roughly 209 days a year at 0°C or below.
Biggar has no ECCC normals station of its own: every figure here comes from Rosetown, 49 km south.
A year in Biggar at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Biggar’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Saskatchewan beside it.
What a year in Biggar feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
Frost on 209 days, 20°C on 106
From September to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. On about 45 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
338 mm of precipitation in a typical year
The most falls in June, the least in February. 103rd wettest of 105 towns of 2,500+ in Saskatchewan. About 59 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 66 cm in a normal year
The snow season runs October to May; January brings the most, about 15 cm. 101st snowiest of 102 towns of 2,500+ in Saskatchewan.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Biggar
89% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Think of it as a year’s worth of daily shortfalls below 18°C, added up. In heating terms, homes need more heating than 86% of Canadian towns.
Living with Biggar’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
The frost-free stretch runs from about 30 May to about 10 September, some 101 days in a normal year.
Warm afternoons without cold nights, 17–27°C and 8°C or more, mark Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Frostbite weather, a wind chill under −20, turns up on about 80 days a year.
The humidex tops 30 on about 22 days a year: muggy days to plan around.
A normal year has no blizzard, flood or heat wave in it; Biggar’s hazards page looks at those.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Rosetown
ECCC builds the Rosetown normals from 2 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 49 km south |
| Station altitude | 586 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −44.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 39.1°C |
| Average wind | 15.1 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | North Battleford, 82 km |
How Biggar compares
Compared with 2,611 towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more across Canada; the dots mark the other normals locations in Saskatchewan.
Nearby towns’ climate
Places around Biggar whose figures come from another normals location. Distances here run 63–79 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Biggar.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biggar Rosetown | 25.2°C | −19.9°C | 338 mm |
| Wilkie 63 km · North Battleford | 24.3°C 0.9°C cooler | −20.6°C 0.7°C colder | 383 mm |
| Vanscoy No. 345 68 km · Saskatoon Diefenbaker (Airport) | 25.0°C about the same | −20.7°C 0.8°C colder | 357 mm |
Biggar weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −8.8°C | −19.9°C | −14.4°C | 15 mm | 15 cm |
| February | −6.7°C | −18.0°C | −12.3°C | 9 mm | 7 cm |
| March | 0.3°C | −10.6°C | −5.1°C | 12 mm | 9 cm |
| April | 10.9°C | −3.1°C | 3.9°C | 25 mm | 5 cm |
| May | 18.5°C | 2.8°C | 10.7°C | 35 mm | 2 cm |
| June | 22.1°C | 8.7°C | 15.4°C | 78 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.2°C | 10.7°C | 17.9°C | 52 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.1°C | 9.3°C | 17.2°C | 42 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 19.8°C | 4.1°C | 11.9°C | 28 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 10.7°C | −3.0°C | 3.9°C | 16 mm | 4 cm |
| November | 0.2°C | −10.4°C | −5.2°C | 16 mm | 13 cm |
| December | −6.7°C | −17.2°C | −12.0°C | 12 mm | 12 cm |
| Year | 9.2°C | −3.9°C | 2.7°C | 338 mm | 66 cm |
From year to year, February moves by 4.9°C, more than any month, and June least
Each bar spans a month’s coldest and warmest readings over thirty years; March’s run from −41.1°C in 2014 to 24.3°C in 2004.
Where Biggar’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals at Rosetown, the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals.
- 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, not in ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals, and the effect of the town’s height, for which there is no figure.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Biggar’s climate
How warm does Biggar get in summer?
July is the warmest month, with average highs of 25.2°C.
How cold does Biggar get in winter?
The coldest nights come in January, averaging −19.9°C.
How much rain and snow does Biggar get?
Over twelve months, rain and melted snow come to 338 mm; the range runs from 9 mm in February to 78 mm in June.
Are these figures for Biggar itself?
They are borrowed from Rosetown, the nearest place to Biggar where ECCC publishes 1991–2020 normals.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Biggar →
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).