Ideal weather days in Whitehorse
The best time to visit Whitehorse for warm, dry weather is June, July and August, with 19 to 23 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Whitehorse's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in June, 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 Whitehorse, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold288
- Too wet55
- Too hot0
- Too windy0
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), Whitehorse averaged 67 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 5 a month, 13 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in June and August (up to 23 a month, 74 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 288 a year, mostly in September to May. Another 55 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in July to November. A day can fail more than one test.
Whitehorse weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -6 °C 20 °F | 7 | 0 | 0 of 31 |
| February | -6 °C 20 °F | 6 | 0 | 0 of 28 |
| March | 3 °C 37 °F | 5 | 0 | 0 of 31 |
| April | 8 °C 46 °F | 2 | 0 | 0 of 30 |
| May | 14 °C 57 °F | 3 | 0 | 3 of 31 |
| June | 20 °C 68 °F | 4 | 0 | 19 of 30 |
| July | 23 °C 73 °F | 9 | 0 | 23 of 31 |
| August | 21 °C 70 °F | 8 | 0 | 21 of 31 |
| September | 14 °C 56 °F | 9 | 0 | 2 of 30 |
| October | 7 °C 45 °F | 11 | 0 | 0 of 31 |
| November | 0 °C 32 °F | 8 | 0 | 0 of 30 |
| December | -2 °C 28 °F | 7 | 0 | 0 of 31 |
| Year | 77 | 0 | 67 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 80 warm, dry days
- 2024 59 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Whitehorse for good weather?
The best time to visit Whitehorse for warm, dry weather is June, July and August, with 19 to 23 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain) are most common in July (up to 5 a month, 13 a year). Counted from measured days at Whitehorse Auto station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Whitehorse?
On average 77 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was October (11 rain days), the driest April (2).
How warm does Whitehorse get?
The median daily high ranged from -6 °C (20 °F) in January to 23 °C (73 °F) in July.
Nearby
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Where is the best climate in Canada?
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Source: Whitehorse Auto weather station (71773099999), 1 km from the centre of Whitehorse, 707 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.