Ideal weather days in Calgary
The best time to visit Calgary for warm, dry weather is July and August, with 22 to 25 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Calgary's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in July and August.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Calgary, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold220
- Too wet52
- Too windy24
- Too hot1
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Calgary averaged 117 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Canada, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain) are most common in July (up to 13 a month, 40 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in June, August and September (up to 12 a month, 58 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 220 a year, mostly in November to April. Another 52 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in March and May to September. A day can fail more than one test.
Calgary weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3 °C 37 °F | 3 | 4 | 0 of 31 |
| February | 3 °C 37 °F | 4 | 2 | 0 of 28 |
| March | 4 °C 39 °F | 6 | 0 | 0 of 31 |
| April | 15 °C 58 °F | 5 | 2 | 3 of 30 |
| May | 20 °C 67 °F | 8 | 4 | 16 of 31 |
| June | 23 °C 73 °F | 7 | 5 | 18 of 30 |
| July | 25 °C 77 °F | 8 | 2 | 22 of 31 |
| August | 25 °C 77 °F | 6 | 1 | 25 of 31 |
| September | 21 °C 70 °F | 6 | 1 | 20 of 30 |
| October | 17 °C 62 °F | 4 | 0 | 13 of 31 |
| November | 9 °C 47 °F | 3 | 1 | 1 of 30 |
| December | 7 °C 45 °F | 4 | 2 | 0 of 31 |
| Year | 63 | 24 | 117 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h. Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month. This station doesn't report cloud cover reliably, so clear days aren’t counted here.
Year by year
- 2023 126 warm, dry days
- 2024 113 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Calgary for good weather?
The best time to visit Calgary for warm, dry weather is July and August, with 22 to 25 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain) are most common in July (up to 13 a month, 40 a year). Counted from measured days at Calgary International Cs station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Calgary?
On average 63 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was May (8 rain days), the driest November (3).
How warm does Calgary get?
The median daily high ranged from 3 °C (37 °F) in February to 25 °C (77 °F) in July.
Nearby
- Edmonton280 km104 days
- Regina670 km97 days
- Vancouver670 km108 days
- Seattle710 km, United States142 days
- Billings720 km, United States116 days
- Yellowknife1270 km81 days
More cities in Canada
- Toronto 115 days
- Ottawa 113 days
- Montréal 111 days
- Halifax 98 days
- Whitehorse 67 days
- St. John's 34 days
- Iqaluit 6 days
Where is the best climate in Canada?
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Source: Calgary International Cs weather station (71393099999), 7 km from the centre of Calgary, 1081 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 87% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.