Hardly any Canadian towns collect less precipitation than Arcola East: 390 mm a year
January nights here settle around −20.0°C. The year swings widely: the coldest month’s nights and the warmest month’s afternoons are 46°C apart. Frost is common: about 203 nights a year drop below freezing, more than in 94% of Canadian towns. Wet days, with 1 mm of rain or snow or more, come about 68 times a year.
Figures: ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Regina (Airport) (9.9 km west).
A year in Arcola East at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Arcola East’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Saskatchewan beside it.
What a year in Arcola East feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on 203 days, 20°C on 108
From September to May frost is routine, and in December it comes on almost every night. Some 45 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 390 mm of rain and snow a year
June brings the most rain and snow; February, the least.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
About 105 cm of snow a year
Expect snow from October to May, with about 21 cm in December, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Arcola East
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. That means homes here need more heating than 85% of Canadian towns.
Living with Arcola East’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
About 114 days a year pass without frost, from an average last frost of 23 May to a first of 14 September.
Highs of 17–27°C with nights of 8°C or more come in Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Roughly 84 days a year feel colder than −20 in the wind.
Humid heat, a humidex over 30, comes on about 28 days a year.
What averages leave out, the floods and ice storms, is on Arcola East’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Regina (Airport)
Regina (Airport) is a composite: ECCC joins 3 stations’ readings to make its 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 9.9 km west |
| Station altitude | 578 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −41.9°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 41.3°C |
| Average wind | 18.5 km/h on average, most often from the south-east |
| Next-nearest location | Moose Jaw, 75 km |
How Arcola East 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 Arcola East’s would only repeat its figures. Arcola East has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 59–73 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arcola East Regina (Airport) | 25.6°C | −20.0°C | 390 mm |
| North Qu'Appelle No. 187 59 km · Kelliher | 24.2°C 1.4°C cooler | −20.0°C about the same | 501 mm |
| Moose Jaw 72 km · Moose Jaw | 25.9°C about the same | −17.8°C 2.2°C milder | 422 mm |
Arcola East 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 | −9.3°C | −20.0°C | −14.7°C | 13 mm | 20 cm |
| February | −7.3°C | −18.1°C | −12.7°C | 9 mm | 11 cm |
| March | −0.2°C | −10.8°C | −5.5°C | 15 mm | 19 cm |
| April | 10.6°C | −2.8°C | 3.9°C | 27 mm | 9 cm |
| May | 18.5°C | 3.4°C | 11.0°C | 47 mm | 4 cm |
| June | 22.5°C | 9.3°C | 15.9°C | 85 mm | under 1 cm |
| July | 25.6°C | 11.6°C | 18.6°C | 60 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.4°C | 10.3°C | 17.9°C | 50 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 19.8°C | 4.9°C | 12.4°C | 32 mm | under 1 cm |
| October | 10.6°C | −2.4°C | 4.2°C | 25 mm | 6 cm |
| November | 0.4°C | −10.3°C | −5.0°C | 15 mm | 14 cm |
| December | −7.0°C | −17.1°C | −12.1°C | 14 mm | 21 cm |
| Year | 9.1°C | −3.5°C | 2.8°C | 390 mm | 105 cm |
From year to year, February moves by 4.8°C, more than any month, and June least
Over 1991–2020, March saw both −38.8°C (2014) and 22.3°C (2012), the widest span of any month.
Where Arcola East’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals at Regina (Airport), the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals.
- Comparisons: all Canadian places of 2,500 or more except city totals and reserves, each read the same way.
- Not on this page: sunshine, which none of ECCC’s 450 locations publishes for 1991–2020, and the town’s own height above sea level, so no figure is adjusted for altitude.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Arcola East’s climate
How warm does Arcola East get in summer?
On a normal day in July the thermometer climbs to 25.6°C, the warmest of the year.
How cold does Arcola East get in winter?
January nights average −20.0°C, the coldest of the year.
How much rain and snow does Arcola East get?
Precipitation totals 390 mm a year, with June the wettest month (85 mm) and February the driest (9 mm).
Are these figures for Arcola East itself?
Close to it: they are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Regina (Airport), just outside Arcola East’s boundary.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Arcola East →
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