Photo: Joe Mabel (on Flickr as Joe Mabel from Seattle, US) · CC BY-SA 3.0Caronport is drier than 94% of Canadian towns: 422 mm of rain and snow a year
The depth of winter brings overnight lows near −17.8°C. About 198 nights a year bring a frost, more than in 90% of Canadian towns. Some 44°C separates winter nights from summer afternoons. Expect about 198 frosty starts a year, days when the air falls to freezing.
These are not Caronport’s own readings: ECCC keeps no normals there, so the page uses Moose Jaw, 23 km south-east.
A year in Caronport at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Caronport’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Saskatchewan beside it.
What a year in Caronport feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
198 frost days and 113 days above 20°C a year
The frost season runs September to May, and December freezes nearly every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 39 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
The most falls in June, the least in February. About 66 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
About 105 cm of snow a year
The snow season runs October to May; December brings the most, about 21 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Snowfall: Regina (Airport), 81 km away (Moose Jaw records no complete year of it).
Heating a home in Caronport
90% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
ECCC sums, over the year, how many degrees each day’s average falls short of 18°C. By this count, homes here need more heating than 82% of Canadian towns.
Living with Caronport’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Seedlings can go out once the average last frost, around 21 May, has passed; autumn’s first, near 17 September, ends a season of about 118 days.
The comfortable months for a day outside, highs of 17–27°C and nights of 8°C or more: Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →The wind chill passes −20 on about 71 days in a normal year.
Plan shade and water for about 28 days a year above 30 on the humidex.
A typical year is calm by definition; Caronport’s hazards page covers the exceptions.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Moose Jaw
ECCC builds the Moose Jaw normals from 2 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 23 km south-east |
| Station altitude | 577 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Regina (Airport), 81 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −42.5°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 42.3°C |
| Average wind | 17.2 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Regina (Airport), 81 km |
How Caronport 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
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Caronport’s own would show the same figures). Caronport has no close neighbour with figures; the nearest is 69 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caronport Moose Jaw | 25.9°C | −17.8°C | 422 mm |
| Lumsden No. 189 69 km · Regina (Airport) | 25.6°C about the same | −20.0°C 2.2°C colder | 390 mm |
Caronport weather by month
Average daily high and low, mean temperature, rain and snow (as water) and snowfall by month, 1991–2020.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −6.7°C | −17.8°C | −12.3°C | 13 mm | 20 cm |
| February | −5.0°C | −16.2°C | −10.6°C | 10 mm | 11 cm |
| March | 1.9°C | −9.5°C | −3.8°C | 15 mm | 19 cm |
| April | 11.6°C | −2.8°C | 4.4°C | 27 mm | 9 cm |
| May | 18.6°C | 3.3°C | 10.9°C | 49 mm | 4 cm |
| June | 22.8°C | 9.4°C | 16.1°C | 91 mm | under 1 cm |
| July | 25.9°C | 11.5°C | 18.8°C | 68 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 26.0°C | 10.1°C | 18.1°C | 61 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.4°C | 5.1°C | 12.8°C | 40 mm | under 1 cm |
| October | 11.4°C | −1.7°C | 4.9°C | 23 mm | 6 cm |
| November | 1.9°C | −9.0°C | −3.6°C | 14 mm | 14 cm |
| December | −4.8°C | −15.3°C | −10.1°C | 12 mm | 21 cm |
| Year | 10.3°C | −2.7°C | 3.8°C | 422 mm | 105 cm |
March has run from −36.6°C to 23.2°C in thirty years
From one year to the next, February’s average typically shifts by 5.0°C around its normal of −10.6°C, the widest of any month, while June’s shifts by 1.2°C.
Where Caronport’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: 1991–2020 normals for Moose Jaw from ECCC’s climate data site, the nearest location with every month of temperature.
- Other locations: precipitation and snowfall come from the nearest location that publishes all twelve months of them, as named above.
- Comparisons: every Canadian town and neighbourhood of 2,500 or more, each read from its own nearest location; city totals and reserves are left out.
- 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 Caronport’s climate
How warm does Caronport get in summer?
Highs reach 26.0°C on an average August day; no month is warmer.
How cold does Caronport get in winter?
In January, the coldest month, the typical low is −17.8°C.
How much rain and snow does Caronport get?
The year adds up to 422 mm. June is the peak month (91 mm) and February the low one (10 mm).
Are these figures for Caronport itself?
Not as such: Moose Jaw is the nearest normals location, and Caronport has none.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Caronport →
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).