Canada · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Fort McMurray.

July leads for comfortable weather in Fort McMurray: typically 24.4°C by day, 10.9°C at night, with 84 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high24.4°C

Typical low10.9°C

Rain in July84 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · June

78climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

42climate match

Outdoors

August

August · June · May

81climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 78 — days reach only -11°C, 35° 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

5-11° / -21.7°

Feb

5-6.4° / -19.4°

Mar

50.5° / -13.3°

Apr

189.5° / -3.8°

May

5317.2° / 2.7°

Jun

7022° / 8.3°

Jul

7824.4° / 10.9°

Aug

7722.6° / 9.1°

Sep

5116.6° / 3.7°

Oct

137.6° / -2°

Nov

5-3° / -11.8°

Dec

5-9.3° / -19.1°

Monthly climate evidence for Fort McMurray — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-11°C	-21.7°C	18 mm	6.3	7 h 24	5	Good coverage
February	-6.4°C	-19.4°C	14 mm	5.2	9 h 23	5	Good coverage
March	0.5°C	-13.3°C	14 mm	4.5	11 h 37	5	Good coverage
April	9.5°C	-3.8°C	13 mm	3.9	14 h 09	18	Good coverage
May	17.2°C	2.7°C	29 mm	5.7	16 h 24	53	Good coverage
June	22°C	8.3°C	68 mm	9.9	17 h 46	70	Good coverage
July	24.4°C	10.9°C	84 mm	10.5	17 h 13	78	Good coverage
August	22.6°C	9.1°C	57 mm	7.8	15 h 10	77	Good coverage
September	16.6°C	3.7°C	40 mm	6.7	12 h 40	51	Good coverage
October	7.6°C	-2°C	26 mm	5.9	10 h 14	13	Good coverage
November	-3°C	-11.8°C	16 mm	5.7	8 h 00	5	Good coverage
December	-9.3°C	-19.1°C	17 mm	5.5	6 h 49	5	Good coverage

Records at FORT MCMURRAY CS, 1996–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	15.8°C7 Jan 2003	-43.3°C27 Jan 2004	18 mm3 Jan 2007	38 mm2004 · driest 4 mm in 2002	30
February	13.1°C14 Feb 2017	-43.3°C5 Feb 2019	14 mm3 Feb 2005	37 mm2005 · driest 0 mm in 1999	30
March	20.7°C30 Mar 2004	-39.1°C10 Mar 2009	13 mm26 Mar 2006	45 mm2005 · driest 0 mm in 2001	29
April	27.7°C18 Apr 2016	-32.1°C2 Apr 2020	11 mm13 Apr 2016	28 mm2012 · driest 0 mm in 2001	30
May	32.8°C3 May 2016	-16.4°C4 May 2002	40 mm29 May 2014	81 mm2014 · driest 4 mm in 2023	31
June	40.1°C30 Jun 2021	-3.6°C4 Jun 2011	49 mm14 Jun 2023	167 mm2023 · driest 9 mm in 2007	31
July	37.9°C1 Jul 2021	0.7°C10 Jul 2009	87 mm31 Jul 2016	146 mm2002 · driest 1 mm in 2007	31
August	36.9°C4 Aug 1998	-2.9°C22 Aug 2004	53 mm31 Aug 2021	138 mm2008 · driest 3 mm in 2013	30
September	32.0°C9 Sep 2011	-10.2°C30 Sep 1999	38 mm26 Sep 2014	99 mm2012 · driest 5 mm in 2004	30
October	26.8°C4 Oct 2003	-20.8°C29 Oct 2002	34 mm11 Oct 2020	62 mm2020 · driest 0 mm in 2010	29
November	14.5°C19 Nov 2005	-35.2°C27 Nov 2006	10 mm19 Nov 2017	31 mm2004 · driest 0 mm in 2000	29
December	11.6°C24 Dec 1999	-41.1°C17 Dec 2016	18 mm9 Dec 2005	47 mm2004 · driest 0 mm in 2000	29

Typical days per month at FORT MCMURRAY CS, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	30	<1	2
February	0	0	28	<1	3
March	0	0	30	<1	2
April	<1	0	23	<1	<1
May	3	<1	9	<1	<1
June	8	1	<1	2	0
July	14	3	0	2	0
August	11	2	<1	2	0
September	2	<1	6	1	<1
October	<1	0	21	<1	1
November	0	0	29	<1	3
December	0	0	30	<1	3

How often, not how much — every day in FORT MCMURRAY CS’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%	20%	<1%	21%	-13.9–-6.4°C
February	0%	17%	<1%	10%	-12.3–-2.7°C
March	<1%	15%	<1%	14%	-3.9–3.9°C
April	5%	13%	<1%	8%	5.3–11.9°C
May	32%	18%	2%	20%	14.3–21.4°C
June	52%	33%	7%	43%	20.7–23.8°C
July	63%	32%	7%	38%	23.1–26.1°C
August	59%	25%	6%	30%	19.8–25.2°C
September	28%	23%	3%	23%	14.0–20.3°C
October	4%	19%	1%	19%	3.5–10.8°C
November	0%	20%	<1%	22%	-7.6–1.0°C
December	0%	17%	<1%	11%	-17.1–-3.9°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.

1997Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 25-year average. Warmest: 2023. Coolest: 2014.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5955895
NOAA station: CA003062696 · FORT MCMURRAY CS
Station distance: 13.2 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 16 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 56.73°, 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 FORT MCMURRAY CS is what differs

Saprae Creek→Anzac→Cheecham→Draper→Kinosis→Lenarthur→

Or put two places side by side: Fort McMurray vs Saprae Creek

Best time to visitFort McMurray.

July

July

August

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Fort McMurray.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.