Hardly any Canadian towns collect less precipitation than Boothill: 390 mm a year
In January the night’s low is typically −20.0°C. By frosts alone, it ranks colder than 94% of Canadian towns. Rain or snow is most frequent in June and least in February. Ice scrapers and block heaters earn their keep on roughly 203 days a year at 0°C or below.
Read at Regina (Airport), 6.9 km west: ECCC’s normals for 1991–2020.
A year in Boothill at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Boothill’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Saskatchewan beside it.
What a year in Boothill feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
About 203 frosts and 108 warm days a year
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
Some 68 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
105 cm of snow in a typical year
From October to May snow is likely; December is the peak, at about 21 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Boothill
90% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
A day averaging 10 degrees under 18°C adds 10 to the total; warm days add nothing. Over a year, a home here needs more heating than 85% of Canadian towns.
Living with Boothill’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
The frost-free stretch runs from about 23 May to about 14 September, some 114 days in a normal year.
Plan time outside for Jun, Jul and Aug: highs of 17–27°C and nights no colder than 8°C.
Parks & trails →About 84 days a year bring a wind chill under −20, when bare skin chills fast.
On some 28 days a year the humidex climbs past 30.
Bad-weather days, from blizzards to floods, get their own page for Boothill: the hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Regina (Airport)
ECCC builds the Regina (Airport) normals from 3 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 6.9 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, 72 km |
How Boothill compares
Against the 2,611 Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, each read from its own normals location; the dots are the other locations those towns use in Saskatchewan.
Nearby towns’ climate
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Boothill’s would only repeat its figures. No closer places have figures: these lie 61–70 km from Boothill.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boothill Regina (Airport) | 25.6°C | −20.0°C | 390 mm |
| North Qu'Appelle No. 187 61 km · Kelliher | 24.2°C 1.4°C cooler | −20.0°C about the same | 501 mm |
| Moose Jaw 70 km · Moose Jaw | 25.9°C about the same | −17.8°C 2.2°C milder | 422 mm |
Boothill 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 |
In March, anything from −38.8°C to 22.3°C
February is the least predictable month: about two years in three its average lands within 4.8°C of the normal, −12.7°C. June is the steadiest, within 1.2°C.
Where Boothill’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals, Regina (Airport): the nearest of its locations with every month’s temperatures.
- 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 Boothill’s climate
How warm does Boothill get in summer?
On a normal day in July the thermometer climbs to 25.6°C, the warmest of the year.
How cold does Boothill get in winter?
Expect nights around −20.0°C in January; no month is colder.
How much rain and snow does Boothill get?
Count on roughly 390 mm a year, heaviest in June (85 mm) and lightest in February (9 mm).
Are these figures for Boothill itself?
They are the normals for Regina (Airport), measured just outside Boothill itself.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Boothill →
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).