Few Canadian towns get less rain and snow than Pacific Heights: 357 mm a year
July afternoons average 25.0°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 92% of Canadian towns. Ice scrapers and block heaters earn their keep on roughly 203 days a year at 0°C or below.
Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals at its Saskatoon Diefenbaker (Airport) station, 4.1 km north.
A year in Pacific Heights at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Pacific Heights’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Saskatchewan beside it.
What a year in Pacific Heights feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
About 203 frosts and 105 warm days a year
Frost comes from September to May; in January almost every night freezes. Some 49 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 357 mm of rain and snow a year
June is the wettest month and February the driest. Some 63 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
91 cm of snow in a typical year
Expect snow from October to May, with about 20 cm in January, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Pacific Heights
90% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
One degree below 18°C for one day makes one heating degree day; the year’s days are added together. By this count, homes here need more heating than 95% of Canadian towns.
Living with Pacific Heights’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Frost usually lets go around 19 May and returns near 15 September, about 117 days apart.
Mild days and mild nights together (17–27°C by day, 8°C or more at night) belong to Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Bitter wind chill, under −20, comes on about 83 days a year.
Count on some 22 humid days a year with the humidex past 30.
A normal year has no blizzard, flood or heat wave in it; Pacific Heights’s hazards page looks at those.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Saskatoon Diefenbaker (Airport)
ECCC builds the Saskatoon Diefenbaker (Airport) normals from 3 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 4.1 km north |
| Station altitude | 504 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −44.9°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 38.6°C |
| Average wind | 15.3 km/h on average, most often from the north-west |
| Next-nearest location | Watrous, 101 km |
How Pacific Heights 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 Pacific Heights’s would only repeat its figures. The nearest places to Pacific Heights with figures are 75–100 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific Heights Saskatoon Diefenbaker (Airport) | 25.0°C | −20.7°C | 357 mm |
| Outlook 75 km · Rock Point | 25.2°C about the same | −16.9°C 3.8°C milder | 418 mm |
| Beardy's 97 and Okemasis 96 83 km · Prince Albert | 24.2°C 0.8°C cooler | −22.8°C 2.1°C colder | 432 mm |
| Biggar 86 km · Rosetown | 25.2°C about the same | −19.9°C 0.8°C milder | 338 mm |
Pacific Heights 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 | −20.7°C | −15.4°C | 14 mm | 20 cm |
| February | −7.9°C | −18.9°C | −13.4°C | 9 mm | 11 cm |
| March | −0.7°C | −11.4°C | −6.1°C | 14 mm | 14 cm |
| April | 10.5°C | −2.6°C | 3.9°C | 23 mm | 8 cm |
| May | 18.3°C | 3.4°C | 10.9°C | 42 mm | 1 cm |
| June | 22.1°C | 9.0°C | 15.6°C | 75 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.0°C | 11.5°C | 18.3°C | 59 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.8°C | 10.0°C | 17.4°C | 43 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 19.1°C | 4.7°C | 11.9°C | 32 mm | under 1 cm |
| October | 9.9°C | −2.4°C | 3.7°C | 21 mm | 7 cm |
| November | −0.7°C | −10.4°C | −5.6°C | 14 mm | 13 cm |
| December | −8.0°C | −18.0°C | −13.0°C | 12 mm | 17 cm |
| Year | 8.5°C | −3.8°C | 2.4°C | 357 mm | 91 cm |
A February here can run warm or cold, its average moving by about 4.4°C; the steadiest month is June
Each bar spans a month’s coldest and warmest readings over thirty years; March’s run from −38.3°C in 2003 to 19.6°C in 2015.
Where Pacific Heights’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the Canadian Climate Normals, 1991–2020, at Saskatoon Diefenbaker (Airport) (the closest location with all twelve months of temperatures).
- Comparisons: Canada’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ (no city totals, no reserves), each through its own nearest location.
- Not on this page: sunshine (no 1991–2020 normals exist for it) and any altitude adjustment, since there is no elevation for the town itself.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Pacific Heights’s climate
How warm does Pacific Heights get in summer?
Summer peaks in July: a typical afternoon reaches 25.0°C.
How cold does Pacific Heights get in winter?
Midwinter means January, when a typical night reaches −20.7°C.
How much rain and snow does Pacific Heights get?
The yearly total is about 357 mm. June gets 75 mm, the most of any month; February gets 9 mm, the least.
Are these figures for Pacific Heights itself?
Close to it: they are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Saskatoon Diefenbaker (Airport), just outside Pacific Heights’s boundary.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Pacific Heights →
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).