The Climate and Weather of Edmonton, Alberta

Located in Alberta, Edmonton has a prairie-steppe type climate. This means it usually enjoys sunny weather, even in winter, and the majority of precipitation comes in the summer.

Edmonton enjoys a dry climate with little of the summer humidity that bothers many people in Ontario. Even in summer, Edmonton's nights are rather cool.

Edmonton endures very cold winters.

Snow depths of greater than 1 cm are seen on about 141 days each year in Edmonton compared with about 88 days in Calgary and 65 days in Toronto.

Although it enjoys high sunshine hours, Edmonton's weather is often changeable - it is also notoriously difficult to predict in detail from day to day.