Photo: Canadian2006 · CC BY-SA 3.0Ice on the ground: Lanigan sees more frosts than 95% of Canadian towns
On a normal July day the thermometer tops out near 24.6°C. The year swings widely: the coldest month’s nights and the warmest month’s afternoons are 45°C apart. It is a dry place: less rain and snow fall here than on 94% of Canadian towns. For walks and days out, the stretch from June to August brings highs of 22–25°C.
Lanigan has no ECCC normals station of its own: every figure here comes from Watrous, 36 km south-west.
A year in Lanigan at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Lanigan’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Saskatchewan beside it.
What a year in Lanigan feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
204 frost days and 100 days above 20°C a year
Frost comes from September to May; in January almost every night freezes. Some 47 nights a year drop under −20°C.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
About 417 mm of rain and snow a year
The most falls in June, the least in February. Some 71 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 85 cm in a normal year
The snow season runs October to May; December brings the most, about 19 cm. 100th 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 Lanigan
90% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
The total grows by a degree for every degree a day’s mean sits under 18°C. By this count, homes here need more heating than 94% of Canadian towns.
Living with Lanigan’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Count on about 117 frost-free days: the last frost averages 19 May, the first 13 September.
Warm afternoons without cold nights, 17–27°C and 8°C or more, mark Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →A wind chill below −20 is part of about 85 days a year here.
Humid heat, a humidex over 30, comes on about 22 days a year.
A normal year has no blizzard, flood or heat wave in it; Lanigan’s hazards page looks at those.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Watrous
ECCC builds the Watrous normals from 2 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 36 km south-west |
| Station altitude | 541 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −43.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 37.0°C |
| Average wind | 15.9 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Kelliher, 110 km |
How Lanigan compares
Placed among 2,611 Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+, each on its nearest normals location; each dot is another location used in Saskatchewan.
Nearby towns’ climate
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Lanigan’s would only repeat its figures. The nearest places to Lanigan with figures are 59–100 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lanigan Watrous | 24.6°C | −20.0°C | 417 mm |
| Wynyard 59 km · Kelliher | 24.2°C about the same | −20.0°C about the same | 501 mm |
| Blucher No. 343 90 km · Saskatoon Diefenbaker (Airport) | 25.0°C about the same | −20.7°C 0.7°C colder | 357 mm |
Lanigan 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 | −10.0°C | −20.0°C | −15.0°C | 14 mm | 16 cm |
| February | −8.0°C | −18.3°C | −13.1°C | 9 mm | 10 cm |
| March | −0.9°C | −11.3°C | −6.1°C | 15 mm | 13 cm |
| April | 9.5°C | −2.9°C | 3.3°C | 27 mm | 7 cm |
| May | 17.8°C | 3.3°C | 10.6°C | 47 mm | 2 cm |
| June | 21.8°C | 9.3°C | 15.6°C | 89 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 24.6°C | 11.5°C | 18.1°C | 62 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.3°C | 10.0°C | 17.2°C | 57 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 19.0°C | 4.9°C | 12.0°C | 43 mm | under 1 cm |
| October | 9.5°C | −2.0°C | 3.8°C | 28 mm | 7 cm |
| November | −0.8°C | −10.2°C | −5.5°C | 13 mm | 12 cm |
| December | −7.9°C | −17.3°C | −12.6°C | 14 mm | 19 cm |
| Year | 8.2°C | −3.6°C | 2.3°C | 417 mm | 85 cm |
From year to year, February moves by 4.6°C, more than any month, and June least
Each bar spans a month’s coldest and warmest readings over thirty years; April’s run from −26.2°C in 2018 to 30.5°C in 2001.
Where Lanigan’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals at Watrous, the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals.
- Comparisons: a pool of Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, read alike; whole cities and reserves stay out of it.
- 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 Lanigan’s climate
How warm does Lanigan get in summer?
Midsummer means July, with afternoons near 24.6°C on a typical day.
How cold does Lanigan get in winter?
The year’s coldest nights belong to January, at about −20.0°C.
How much rain and snow does Lanigan get?
Rain and snow, with snow counted as water, total 417 mm a year; June leads with 89 mm and February trails with 9 mm.
Are these figures for Lanigan itself?
The figures are ECCC’s for Watrous; Lanigan has no normals station.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Lanigan →
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).