Ideal weather days in Iqaluit
Warm, dry days are rare in Iqaluit: even July, the best month, averaged only 4.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Iqaluit's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Iqaluit, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold359
- Too windy93
- Too wet60
- Too hot0
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), Iqaluit averaged 6 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 rare: no month averaged more than 0. Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in (up to 4 a month, 5 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 359 a year, mostly all year round. Another 93 are windy (mean wind over 20 km/h), mostly in April to May and October to February. A day can fail more than one test.
Iqaluit weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -17 °C 1 °F | 11 | 8 | 0 of 31 |
| February | -21 °C -6 °F | 5 | 7 | 0 of 28 |
| March | -14 °C 6 °F | 3 | 7 | 0 of 31 |
| April | -4 °C 25 °F | 2 | 11 | 0 of 30 |
| May | 0 °C 32 °F | 5 | 10 | 0 of 31 |
| June | 7 °C 44 °F | 9 | 4 | 0 of 30 |
| July | 12 °C 53 °F | 10 | 4 | 4 of 31 |
| August | 12 °C 53 °F | 10 | 5 | 1 of 31 |
| September | 7 °C 44 °F | 7 | 7 | 0 of 30 |
| October | 3 °C 37 °F | 8 | 9 | 0 of 31 |
| November | -2 °C 28 °F | 6 | 11 | 0 of 30 |
| December | -9 °C 15 °F | 3 | 11 | 0 of 31 |
| Year | 77 | 93 | 6 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 0 warm, dry days
- 2024 4 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Iqaluit for good weather?
Warm, dry days are rare in Iqaluit: even July, the best month, averaged only 4. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain) are rare: no month averaged more than 0. Counted from measured days at Iqaluit Climate Nu station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Iqaluit?
On average 77 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was January (11 rain days), the driest April (2).
How warm does Iqaluit get?
The median daily high ranged from -21 °C (-6 °F) in February to 12 °C (53 °F) in July.
Nearby
- Montréal2060 km111 days
- St. John's2060 km34 days
- Ottawa2090 km113 days
- Halifax2150 km98 days
More cities in Canada
- Calgary 117 days
- Toronto 115 days
- Vancouver 108 days
- Edmonton 104 days
- Regina 97 days
- Yellowknife 81 days
- Whitehorse 67 days
Where is the best climate in Canada?
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Source: Iqaluit Climate Nu weather station (71321099999), 1 km from the centre of Iqaluit, 34 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 83% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.