Canada · 1991–2020 normal
Kinngait in
January.
Typical January weather in Kinngait: -21.1°C by day, -27.9°C at night, 17 mm of rain over 5 wet days. These are measured 1991–2020 station normals, not a forecast.
Typical high-21.1°C
Typical low-27.9°C
Rain17 mm
Wet days5
Comfort score 5 this month (July leads the year at 41). Daylight is calculated as 5 h 16 from latitude 64.23°. Open-water sea temperature is -0.8°C (13 km from the place centre).
Event window
Long northern nights in January
At 64.2° the calculated mid-month daylight is 5 h 16. That darkness, not an aurora observation, is why this latitude is sought for northern or southern lights in January. Typical nights are -27.9°C.
Event window
Frost-level nights in January
The measured night-time normal is -27.9°C, so frost is typical rather than exceptional this month.
The evidence behind this page
One month,
from the same station.
- Place identity
- GeoNames 5915732
- NOAA station
- CA002400635 · CAPE DORSET A
- Station distance
- 0.5 km from the place centre
- Coverage
- Good coverage · 21 usable years
- Important limit
- Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.