Photo: Unknown author Unknown author · Public domainTisdale is drier than 94% of Canadian towns: 397 mm of rain and snow a year
Sunny July days climb to about 23.4°C. A year here swings 45°C from midwinter lows to midsummer highs. Its January nights bite harder than in 92% of Canadian towns. Expect about 202 frosty starts a year, days when the air falls to freezing.
The nearest ECCC normals location to Tisdale is Melfort, 37 km west, and every figure on this page is its.
A year in Tisdale at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Tisdale’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Saskatchewan beside it.
What a year in Tisdale feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
202 frost days and 90 days above 20°C a year
Frost comes from September to May; in January almost every night freezes. On about 53 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
397 mm of precipitation in a typical year
July brings the most rain and snow; February, the least. 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
Snowfall: about 128 cm in a normal year
From October to May snow is likely; December is the peak, at about 28 cm. 4th snowiest of 101 towns of 2,500+ in Saskatchewan.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
ECCC’s Melfort normals leave snowfall out; the figures here come from Nipawin, 53 km away.
Heating a home in Tisdale
89% 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. In heating terms, homes need more heating than 98% of Canadian towns.
Living with Tisdale’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
The frost-free stretch runs from about 24 May to about 13 September, some 111 days in a normal year.
Afternoons of 17–27°C and nights of at least 8°C arrive in Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Bitter wind chill, under −20, comes on about 90 days a year.
Plan shade and water for about 18 days a year above 30 on the humidex.
For blizzards, floods and wildfire, turn to Tisdale’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Melfort
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for Melfort are 2 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 37 km west |
| Station altitude | 490 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Nipawin, 53 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −44.9°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 36.6°C |
| Average wind | 14.7 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Nipawin, 53 km |
How Tisdale 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 Tisdale’s would only repeat its figures. Tisdale has no close neighbour with figures; the nearest is 56 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tisdale Melfort | 23.4°C | −21.1°C | 397 mm |
| Nipawin 56 km · Nipawin | 23.8°C about the same | −23.4°C 2.3°C colder | 424 mm |
Tisdale weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −11.8°C | −21.1°C | −16.6°C | 15 mm | 22 cm |
| February | −9.6°C | −19.3°C | −14.5°C | 10 mm | 18 cm |
| March | −2.9°C | −12.5°C | −7.8°C | 13 mm | 14 cm |
| April | 7.6°C | −3.4°C | 2.1°C | 24 mm | 14 cm |
| May | 16.9°C | 3.3°C | 10.1°C | 33 mm | 2 cm |
| June | 21.1°C | 9.3°C | 15.2°C | 78 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 23.4°C | 11.5°C | 17.5°C | 79 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 23.1°C | 10.2°C | 16.6°C | 52 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 17.5°C | 5.2°C | 11.4°C | 39 mm | under 1 cm |
| October | 8.1°C | −1.8°C | 3.1°C | 25 mm | 12 cm |
| November | −2.6°C | −10.6°C | −6.7°C | 15 mm | 18 cm |
| December | −9.3°C | −18.0°C | −13.7°C | 14 mm | 28 cm |
| Year | 6.8°C | −4.0°C | 1.4°C | 397 mm | 128 cm |
December strays furthest from its normal year to year, by 4.3°C; July the least
Over 1991–2020, April saw both −26.1°C (2018) and 31.2°C (2001), the widest span of any month.
Where Tisdale’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s normals for Melfort, 1991–2020, chosen as the nearest location with a full temperature record.
- Other locations: where a location publishes no full year of precipitation or snowfall, the nearest one that does supplies it, named beside those figures.
- Comparisons: the 2,500-plus towns and neighbourhoods of Canada, each read from its closest normals location; whole cities and reserves aren’t counted.
- Not on this page: hours of sunshine, missing from the 1991–2020 normals, and a height correction: the town has no elevation on file.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Tisdale’s climate
How warm does Tisdale get in summer?
July is the warmest month, with average highs of 23.4°C.
How cold does Tisdale get in winter?
A typical January night falls to −21.1°C, the year’s low point.
How much rain and snow does Tisdale get?
The year adds up to 397 mm. July is the peak month (79 mm) and February the low one (10 mm).
Are these figures for Tisdale itself?
Not exactly. Tisdale lacks a normals station, so Melfort supplies the figures.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Tisdale →
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).