Photo: Kabelleger / David Gubler · CC BY-SA 4.0Wilkie sits near the bottom of Canadian towns for rain and snow, with 383 mm a year
January nights here settle around −20.6°C. Precipitation follows the seasons: July brings about 6.0 times as much as March. Frost is common: about 208 nights a year drop below freezing, more than in 96% of Canadian towns. About 71 days a year bring 1 mm of precipitation or more.
The nearest ECCC normals location to Wilkie is North Battleford, 50 km north-east, and every figure on this page is its.
A year in Wilkie at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Wilkie’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Saskatchewan beside it.
What a year in Wilkie feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on 208 days, 20°C on 98
Frost comes from September to May; in December almost every night freezes. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 49 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
383 mm of precipitation in a typical year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
66 cm of snow in a typical year
Expect snow from October to May, with about 15 cm in January, the snowiest month. 101st snowiest of 102 towns of 2,500+ in Saskatchewan.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Snowfall: Rosetown, 100 km away (North Battleford records no complete year of it).
Heating a home in Wilkie
89% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Think of it as a year’s worth of daily shortfalls below 18°C, added up. By this count, homes here need more heating than 97% of Canadian towns.
Living with Wilkie’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
A normal year gives the garden about 109 frost-free days, roughly 26 May to 13 September.
The comfortable months for a day outside, highs of 17–27°C and nights of 8°C or more: Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Bitter wind chill, under −20, comes on about 80 days a year.
Expect around 15 sticky days a year with the humidex above 30.
Averages smooth over blizzards, ice storms, floods and heat waves; Wilkie’s hazards page covers the risks.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: North Battleford
North Battleford is a composite: ECCC joins 4 stations’ readings to make its 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 50 km north-east |
| Station altitude | 548 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Rosetown, 100 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −45.1°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 39.5°C |
| Average wind | 14.2 km/h on average, most often from the south-east |
| Next-nearest location | Rosetown, 100 km |
How Wilkie 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 Wilkie’s would only repeat its figures. Distances here run 63–107 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Wilkie.
Wilkie 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 | −10.1°C | −20.6°C | −15.3°C | 19 mm | 15 cm |
| February | −7.8°C | −18.9°C | −13.3°C | 14 mm | 7 cm |
| March | −1.2°C | −12.0°C | −6.6°C | 13 mm | 9 cm |
| April | 9.9°C | −3.3°C | 3.3°C | 25 mm | 5 cm |
| May | 18.0°C | 3.0°C | 10.5°C | 31 mm | 2 cm |
| June | 21.7°C | 8.5°C | 15.1°C | 60 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 24.3°C | 10.8°C | 17.6°C | 77 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 23.7°C | 9.4°C | 16.6°C | 51 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 18.5°C | 4.1°C | 11.3°C | 28 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 9.4°C | −2.8°C | 3.3°C | 20 mm | 4 cm |
| November | −1.4°C | −11.1°C | −6.3°C | 21 mm | 13 cm |
| December | −8.4°C | −18.4°C | −13.4°C | 24 mm | 12 cm |
| Year | 8.1°C | −4.3°C | 1.9°C | 383 mm | 66 cm |
From year to year, December moves by 4.4°C, more than any month, and June least
Over 1991–2020, March saw both −38.4°C (2003) and 19.3°C (2004), the widest span of any month.
Where Wilkie’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals, North Battleford: the nearest of its locations with every month’s temperatures.
- Other locations: precipitation and snowfall come from the nearest location that publishes all twelve months of them, as named above.
- Comparisons: Canada’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ (no city totals, no reserves), each through its own nearest location.
- Not on this page: a sunshine figure (ECCC published none for 1991–2020) and any lapse-rate correction for height, as the town has no elevation here.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Wilkie’s climate
How warm does Wilkie get in summer?
Summer peaks in July: a typical afternoon reaches 24.3°C.
How cold does Wilkie get in winter?
The year’s coldest nights belong to January, at about −20.6°C.
How much rain and snow does Wilkie get?
Rain and snow add up to about 383 mm of water a year; July brings the most (77 mm), March the least (13 mm).
Are these figures for Wilkie itself?
The figures are ECCC’s for North Battleford; Wilkie has no normals station.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Wilkie →
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).