Photo: Bulloney · CC BY-SA 3.0Carnduff is drier than 94% of Canadian towns: 422 mm of rain and snow a year
The coldest hours of a January night bottom out at −19.9°C on average. By frosts alone, it ranks colder than 88% of Canadian towns. From frozen January to warm July, readings climb 46°C. An umbrella or a shovel earns its place on about 64 days a year with 1 mm or more.
Every figure here comes from Melita, 60 km east; ECCC has no normals closer to Carnduff, so they describe the wider area.
A year in Carnduff at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Carnduff’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Saskatchewan beside it.
What a year in Carnduff feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
About 194 frosts and 111 warm days a year
From September to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 46 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
Rain and melted snow: about 422 mm a year
June is the wettest month and February the driest.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
118 cm of snow in a typical year
Expect snow from October to May, with about 21 cm in January, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
ECCC’s Melita normals leave snowfall out; the figures here come from Estevan, 85 km away.
Heating a home in Carnduff
91% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
The count adds up, day by day, how far the mean temperature falls short of 18°C. In heating terms, homes need more heating than 83% of Canadian towns.
Living with Carnduff’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Wait until about 19 May to plant out; frost tends to come back around 22 September, about 125 days later.
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 78 days a year here.
Count on some 35 humid days a year with the humidex past 30.
A normal year has no blizzard, flood or heat wave in it; Carnduff’s hazards page looks at those.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Melita
Melita is one of the 450 places where ECCC publishes 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 60 km east |
| Station altitude | 446 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Estevan, 85 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −42.3°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 39.6°C |
| Average wind | 15.0 km/h on average, most often from the south |
| Next-nearest location | Estevan, 85 km |
How Carnduff 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
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Carnduff’s would only repeat its figures. Distances here run 28–61 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Carnduff.
Carnduff 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 | −9.5°C | −19.9°C | −14.8°C | 13 mm | 21 cm |
| February | −7.6°C | −18.6°C | −13.1°C | 11 mm | 17 cm |
| March | −0.6°C | −11.1°C | −5.9°C | 20 mm | 16 cm |
| April | 10.6°C | −2.1°C | 4.2°C | 22 mm | 10 cm |
| May | 18.1°C | 4.2°C | 11.2°C | 68 mm | 4 cm |
| June | 22.6°C | 10.4°C | 16.5°C | 82 mm | under 1 cm |
| July | 25.6°C | 12.9°C | 19.3°C | 58 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.7°C | 11.2°C | 18.5°C | 48 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.1°C | 6.3°C | 13.2°C | 36 mm | under 1 cm |
| October | 11.1°C | −1.0°C | 5.0°C | 31 mm | 8 cm |
| November | 0.8°C | −9.2°C | −4.2°C | 16 mm | 19 cm |
| December | −7.0°C | −16.7°C | −11.9°C | 16 mm | 21 cm |
| Year | 9.2°C | −2.8°C | 3.2°C | 422 mm | 118 cm |
February strays furthest from its normal year to year, by 4.5°C; July the least
Each bar spans a month’s coldest and warmest readings over thirty years; March’s run from −35.4°C in 2014 to 21.8°C in 2012.
Where Carnduff’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals, Melita, 1991–2020.
- Other locations: precipitation and snowfall come from the nearest location that publishes all twelve months of them, as named above.
- Comparisons: every place of 2,500+ in Canada but the city hubs and the reserves, each on its nearest ECCC location.
- 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 Carnduff’s climate
How warm does Carnduff get in summer?
Summer peaks in August: a typical afternoon reaches 25.7°C.
How cold does Carnduff get in winter?
A typical January night falls to −19.9°C, the year’s low point.
How much rain and snow does Carnduff get?
Some 422 mm falls in a year. Most of it comes in June (82 mm), the least in February (11 mm).
Are these figures for Carnduff itself?
Not really: Melita, the closest location with normals, lies well away from Carnduff.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Carnduff →
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).