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Edmonton weather

Alberta · 1,010,899 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 12:34

Light snow
-3°
Light snow
Feels like -6°C
Wind
6 km/h
Gusts
11 km/h
Humidity
92 %
Pressure
1027 hPa
Clouds
97 %
Storm
No
Rise 08:28 Set 18:07 Day 9 h 38 min UV 1 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Afternoon
Light snow
Light snow
-2°-3°
Feels like -5°
Wind ↑ NW 7 km/h
Humidity 82 %
💧 0.7 mm
Evening
Overcast
Overcast
-3°-4°
Feels like -5°
Wind ↑ S 5 km/h
Humidity 86 %
💧 0.1 mm
12:00
Light snow
-3°
0.6mm
NW 6
15:00
Overcast
-2°
0.1mm
NW 7

Edmonton 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)
-10°-6°-1°4°8°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed6°-3°Thu 29 Oct: max -2° · min -4° · normal 0.2°Fri 30 Oct: max 1° · min -8° · normal -0.1°Sat 31 Oct: max 2° · min -8° · normal -0.4°Sun 1 Nov: max 2° · min -7° · normal -0.4°Mon 2 Nov: max 4° · min -5° · normal -0.7°Tue 3 Nov: max 4° · min -3° · normal -1.0°Wed 4 Nov: max 6° · min -3° · normal -1.3°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu-10°-1°8°7°-8°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Edmonton climate: what a normal year looks like

Nights typically freeze from October to April, the coldest averaging −16 °C in January.

From 17 h 03 min of daylight in late June to 7 h 27 min in late December.

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 22 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −16 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 28 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 510 mm of rain — less than 86% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 2 °C, 7 °C cooler than a normal October (9 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan−8 °C−16 °C23 mm
Feb−5 °C−15 °C16 mm
Mar−1 °C−10 °C21 mm
Apr8 °C−2 °C37 mm
May17 °C5 °C57 mm
Jun19 °C9 °C92 mm
Jul22 °C11 °C93 mm
Aug22 °C10 °C63 mm
Sep17 °C5 °C41 mm
Oct9 °C−1 °C26 mm
Nov0 °C−8 °C26 mm
Dec−6 °C−14 °C19 mm
Whole year8 °C−2 °C510 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 53.55° N, 113.47° 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 Edmonton: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.54µg/m³
PM104µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Edmonton

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

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas
Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Moon over Edmonton

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 19:35 Set 13:46
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 Edmonton

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

Edmonton weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Edmonton, Alberta: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “light snow”, it is -3 °C (feels like -6 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.

Expected range today: -4 °C to -2 °C and around 2 mm of rain. 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