Few Canadian towns get less rain and snow than Pleasant Hill: 357 mm a year
July afternoons average 25.0°C. By frosts alone, it ranks colder than 92% of Canadian towns. Precipitation peaks in June and eases off in February. Wet days, with 1 mm of rain or snow or more, come about 63 times a year.
1991–2020 normals from ECCC’s Saskatoon Diefenbaker (Airport) location, 5.3 km north.
A year in Pleasant Hill at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Pleasant Hill’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Saskatchewan beside it.
What a year in Pleasant Hill feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
Frost on 203 days, 20°C on 105
From September to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. On about 49 nights a year the air falls below −20°C.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
Rain and melted snow: about 357 mm a year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
About 91 cm of snow a year
From October to May snow is likely; January is the peak, at about 20 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Pleasant Hill
90% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Measured against 18°C: each day’s shortfall in mean temperature, added over twelve months. That means homes here need more heating than 95% of Canadian towns.
Living with Pleasant Hill’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Frost usually lets go around 19 May and returns near 15 September, about 117 days apart.
Afternoons of 17–27°C and nights of at least 8°C arrive in Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Frostbite weather, a wind chill under −20, turns up on about 83 days a year.
A humidex above 30 marks about 22 days in a normal year.
Extremes don’t show in averages: floods, wildfire smoke and ice storms are on Pleasant Hill’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Saskatoon Diefenbaker (Airport)
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for Saskatoon Diefenbaker (Airport) are 3 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 5.3 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, 98 km |
How Pleasant Hill 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
Places around Pleasant Hill whose figures come from another normals location. Distances here run 75–98 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Pleasant Hill.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant Hill 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 89 km · Rosetown | 25.2°C about the same | −19.9°C 0.8°C milder | 338 mm |
| Watrous 98 km · Watrous | 24.6°C about the same | −20.0°C 0.7°C milder | 417 mm |
Pleasant Hill 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 |
From −38.3°C to 19.6°C: March’s coldest and warmest days since 1991
The month to count on least is February: one year in three its average strays more than 4.4°C from −13.4°C. June moves least, typically by 1.1°C.
Where Pleasant Hill’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: 1991–2020 normals for Saskatoon Diefenbaker (Airport) from ECCC’s climate data site, the nearest location with every month of temperature.
- 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, 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 Pleasant Hill’s climate
How warm does Pleasant Hill get in summer?
Midsummer means July, with afternoons near 25.0°C on a typical day.
How cold does Pleasant Hill get in winter?
Lows sink to −20.7°C on an average January night.
How much rain and snow does Pleasant Hill 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 Pleasant Hill itself?
They are the normals for Saskatoon Diefenbaker (Airport), measured just outside Pleasant Hill itself.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Pleasant Hill →
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).