Best time to visit Edmonton

Edmonton is a city of two halves. August scores 81 and March scores 25 — a 56-point swing, which is the difference between a holiday and an endurance test. The month you pick matters more here than almost anywhere. The good window runs June to September — 4 months within ten points of the best.

July is the warmest month at 23.5 °C and January the coolest at -5.9 °C — a 29.4 °C spread across the year. At the other end, 191 nights a year fall below freezing: the winter here is a real one.

There is a real wet season here. June to July carry the rain — up to 16 wet days in a month — while January, February and December drop as low as 5. That 11-day gap is the biggest single difference between a good month and a bad one in Edmonton, and it moves further than the temperature does.

Daylight swings hard — 17 hours at midsummer against 7.5 at midwinter. That 9.5-hour difference changes how much fits into a day more than the temperature does.

The three strongest months are August, September, June. The one to think twice about is March. Each month below has its own page with rainfall reliability, extremes, daylight and crowd levels.

Edmonton month by month