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Best time to visit
Fairmont Hot Springs.

August leads for comfortable weather in Fairmont Hot Springs: typically 26.1°C by day, 10.7°C at night, with 42 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortAugust

Typical high26.1°C

Typical low10.7°C

Rain in August42 mm

Comfort

August

August · July · June

81climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

59climate match

Outdoors

September

September · May · June

85climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against August’s 81 — days reach only -3.6°C, 28° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

5-3.6° / -9.6°

Feb

50.2° / -8°

Mar

66.7° / -3.6°

Apr

3513.2° / 0.7°

May

5818.8° / 5.3°

Jun

7022° / 8.9°

Jul

7826.7° / 11.6°

Aug

8126.1° / 10.7°

Sep

6318.9° / 5.9°

Oct

239.8° / 0.5°

Nov

51° / -4.9°

Dec

5-3.7° / -8.9°

Monthly climate evidence for Fairmont Hot Springs — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-3.6°C	-9.6°C	34 mm	10.2	8 h 28	5	Strong coverage
February	0.2°C	-8°C	22 mm	5.9	9 h 58	5	Strong coverage
March	6.7°C	-3.6°C	22 mm	6.6	11 h 42	6	Strong coverage
April	13.2°C	0.7°C	33 mm	6.8	13 h 42	35	Strong coverage
May	18.8°C	5.3°C	48 mm	9	15 h 25	58	Strong coverage
June	22°C	8.9°C	70 mm	11.6	16 h 24	70	Strong coverage
July	26.7°C	11.6°C	49 mm	8.3	16 h 00	78	Strong coverage
August	26.1°C	10.7°C	42 mm	7.3	14 h 30	81	Strong coverage
September	18.9°C	5.9°C	34 mm	7.2	12 h 33	63	Strong coverage
October	9.8°C	0.5°C	28 mm	7.2	10 h 38	23	Strong coverage
November	1°C	-4.9°C	35 mm	8.9	8 h 55	5	Strong coverage
December	-3.7°C	-8.9°C	30 mm	9	8 h 03	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Fairmont Hot Springs runs +1.0°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.

Jan

+3.3

Feb

-0.3

Mar

+0.9

Apr

0.0

May

+0.7

Jun

+0.3

Jul

+2.5

Aug

+1.8

Sep

+1.0

Oct

-0.5

Nov

+0.9

Dec

+1.9

August daytime highs, 2011–2022. Last recorded: 28.4°C.

Records at KOOTENAY NP WEST GATE, 1968–2022
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	18.0°C9 Jan 2016	-35.6°C23 Jan 1969	34 mm14 Jan 2012	71 mm1971 · driest 4 mm in 1985	53
February	15.0°C5 Feb 2011	-35.0°C1 Feb 1988	50 mm29 Feb 2020	59 mm1972 · driest 1 mm in 2010	52
March	22.0°C30 Mar 2004	-25.5°C3 Mar 2019	19 mm10 Mar 1973	43 mm2012 · driest 0 mm in 1970	51
April	29.4°C25 Apr 1977	-13.3°C1 Apr 1975	94 mm29 Apr 2018	127 mm2018 · driest 2 mm in 1977	51
May	33.5°C12 May 1993	-5.0°C11 May 2012	39 mm25 May 1973	98 mm2016 · driest 7 mm in 1983	52
June	41.5°C30 Jun 2021	-0.6°C3 Jun 1977	47 mm19 Jun 2013	203 mm2005 · driest 12 mm in 1977	51
July	39.0°C1 Jul 2021	2.0°C13 Jul 2020	65 mm17 Jul 2016	218 mm2016 · driest 9 mm in 1985	53
August	37.5°C5 Aug 1998	0.0°C26 Aug 2015	53 mm4 Aug 2013	116 mm1989 · driest 3 mm in 2001	53
September	34.5°C3 Sep 1988	-5.5°C28 Sep 1984	36 mm25 Sep 1986	91 mm2013 · driest 2 mm in 1991	49
October	24.0°C8 Oct 1984	-15.6°C29 Oct 1971	21 mm7 Oct 1981	59 mm2016 · driest 2 mm in 1974	49
November	17.0°C12 Nov 2016	-30.5°C28 Nov 1985	44 mm14 Nov 2021	108 mm1995 · driest 4 mm in 1979	51
December	10.0°C16 Dec 1976	-37.8°C30 Dec 1968	34 mm21 Dec 2020	95 mm1980 · driest 5 mm in 2005	51

Typical days per month at KOOTENAY NP WEST GATE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	29	<1	10
February	0	0	26	<1	5
March	0	0	25	<1	3
April	<1	0	14	<1	1
May	5	<1	2	1	<1
June	8	2	0	2	0
July	20	9	0	1	0
August	19	8	0	<1	0
September	4	<1	2	<1	0
October	0	0	15	<1	<1
November	0	0	24	<1	5
December	0	0	27	<1	8

How often, not how much — every day in KOOTENAY NP WEST GATE’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	0%	31%	1%	37%	-7.8–-1.1°C
February	0%	21%	1%	21%	-2.9–3.3°C
March	0%	18%	<1%	13%	4.4–8.7°C
April	8%	20%	2%	19%	10.8–15.2°C
May	33%	27%	3%	31%	16.1–20.3°C
June	50%	36%	6%	47%	19.9–24.1°C
July	70%	26%	4%	28%	23.3–29.3°C
August	70%	24%	3%	24%	22.4–28.1°C
September	37%	23%	2%	25%	16.0–21.1°C
October	2%	21%	2%	19%	8.1–11.4°C
November	0%	28%	2%	32%	-2.0–3.5°C
December	0%	31%	2%	37%	-8.2–-1.5°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1969Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 40-year average. Warmest: 2016. Coolest: 1985.2021

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5951004
NOAA station: CA001154410 · KOOTENAY NP WEST GATE
Station distance: 36.7 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 26 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 50.33°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from KOOTENAY NP WEST GATE is what differs

Invermere→Radium Hot Springs→Panorama→Athalmer→Dry Gulch→Shuswap→

Or put two places side by side: Fairmont Hot Springs vs Invermere

Best time to visitFairmont Hot Springs.