Ideal weather days in Yellowknife
The best time to visit Yellowknife for warm, dry weather is July and August, with about 23 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Yellowknife'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 Yellowknife, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold264
- Too windy52
- Too wet39
- 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), Yellowknife averaged 81 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, mostly sunny) are most common in (up to 5 a month, 8 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in August (up to 11 a month, 33 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 264 a year, mostly in September to April. Another 52 are windy (mean wind over 20 km/h), mostly in April to June and October to December. A day can fail more than one test.
Yellowknife weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -16 °C 3 °F | 5 | 3 | 6 | 0 of 31 |
| February | -17 °C 1 °F | 3 | 1 | 10 | 0 of 28 |
| March | -11 °C 12 °F | 1 | 3 | 13 | 0 of 31 |
| April | 4 °C 39 °F | 2 | 6 | 10 | 0 of 30 |
| May | 17 °C 63 °F | 4 | 7 | 12 | 9 of 31 |
| June | 20 °C 68 °F | 4 | 4 | 5 | 17 of 30 |
| July | 24 °C 74 °F | 3 | 4 | 8 | 23 of 31 |
| August | 21 °C 70 °F | 4 | 3 | 5 | 23 of 31 |
| September | 16 °C 61 °F | 5 | 4 | 6 | 8 of 30 |
| October | 6 °C 42 °F | 7 | 7 | 5 | 0 of 31 |
| November | -5 °C 22 °F | 9 | 5 | 1 | 0 of 30 |
| December | -10 °C 13 °F | 8 | 4 | 5 | 0 of 31 |
| Year | 55 | 51 | 85 | 81 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; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 100 warm, dry days
- 2024 66 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Yellowknife for good weather?
The best time to visit Yellowknife for warm, dry weather is July and August, with about 23 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in (up to 5 a month, 8 a year). Counted from measured days at Yellowknife station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Yellowknife?
On average 55 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was November (9 rain days), the driest March (1).
How many sunny days does Yellowknife get a year?
About 85 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in March (13).
How warm does Yellowknife get?
The median daily high ranged from -17 °C (1 °F) in February to 24 °C (74 °F) in July.
Nearby
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- Anchorage1870 km, United States55 days
More cities in Canada
- Toronto 115 days
- Ottawa 113 days
- Montréal 111 days
- Vancouver 108 days
- Halifax 98 days
- Regina 97 days
- St. John's 34 days
- Iqaluit 6 days
Where is the best climate in Canada?
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Source: Yellowknife weather station (71936099999), 4 km from the centre of Yellowknife, 206 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.