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Alberta · 1,306,784 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 10:50

Partly cloudy
-4°
Partly cloudy
Feels like -4°C
Wind
2 km/h
Gusts
11 km/h
Humidity
85 %
Pressure
1026 hPa
Clouds
72 %
Storm
No
Rise 08:24 Set 18:15 Day 9 h 51 min UV 3 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Morning
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
-4°-9°
Feels like -4°
Wind ↑ WNW 7 km/h
Humidity 85 %
Afternoon
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
-2°-3°
Feels like -2°
Wind ↑ S 3 km/h
Humidity 67 %
Evening
Clear sky
Clear sky
-4°-9°
Feels like -6°
Wind ↑ SE 6 km/h
Humidity 84 %
12:00
Mainly clear
-3°
S 2
15:00
Partly cloudy
-2°
SSE 3

Calgary forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
-12°-6°1°7°13°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed11°-2°Thu 29 Oct: max -2° · min -9° · normal 1.6°Fri 30 Oct: max 1° · min -10° · normal 1.4°Sat 31 Oct: max 6° · min -6° · normal 1.2°Sun 1 Nov: max 5° · min -3° · normal 1.2°Mon 2 Nov: max 8° · min -2° · normal 0.9°Tue 3 Nov: max 9° · min -2° · normal 0.7°Wed 4 Nov: max 11° · min -2° · normal 0.5°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu-12°0°12°11°-10°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Calgary climate: what a normal year looks like

Nights typically freeze from October to April, the coldest averaging −13 °C in January.

From 16 h 33 min of daylight in late June to 7 h 54 min in late December.

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 22 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −13 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 23 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 550 mm of rain — less than 85% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 5 °C, 6 °C cooler than a normal October (11 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan−3 °C−13 °C17 mm
Feb0 °C−11 °C17 mm
Mar3 °C−9 °C26 mm
Apr9 °C−2 °C44 mm
May16 °C3 °C79 mm
Jun19 °C7 °C112 mm
Jul22 °C9 °C68 mm
Aug22 °C9 °C69 mm
Sep18 °C5 °C48 mm
Oct11 °C−1 °C29 mm
Nov3 °C−6 °C24 mm
Dec−3 °C−11 °C18 mm
Whole year10 °C−2 °C550 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 51.05° N, 114.09° W, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Calgary: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.55µg/m³
PM105µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Calgary

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Calgary, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Moon over Calgary

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 20:01 Set 13:27
Fri 30/10 79%
Sat 31/10 69%
Sun 1/11 59%
Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter
Tue 3/11 38%
Wed 4/11 28%
Thu 5/11 19%
Fri 6/11 12%
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (America/Edmonton); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Calgary

Curious about the weather in Calgary on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Calgary weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Calgary, Alberta: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “partly cloudy”, it is -4 °C (feels like -4 °C) and the wind blows at 2 km/h.

Expected range today: -9 °C to -2 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations