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Best time to visit
Inuvik.

July leads for comfortable weather in Inuvik: typically 18.9°C by day, 9.1°C at night, with 41 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high18.9°C

Typical low9.1°C

Rain in July41 mm

Comfort

July

July · June · August

67climate match

Beach

July

July · June · August

30climate match

Outdoors

July

July · June · August

88climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 67 — days reach only -21°C, 45° 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

5-21° / -27°

Feb

5-19.1° / -25.9°

Mar

5-16.4° / -24.8°

Apr

5-5.8° / -14.8°

May

106.5° / -3°

Jun

6117.3° / 5.9°

Jul

6718.9° / 9.1°

Aug

4915.1° / 6.6°

Sep

167.5° / 1°

Oct

5-2.6° / -7.5°

Nov

5-14.2° / -19.7°

Dec

5-19.5° / -25.2°

Monthly climate evidence for Inuvik — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	-21°C	-27°C	13 mm	4.2	2 h 39	5	Good coverage
February	-19.1°C	-25.9°C	9 mm	2.6	7 h 28	5	Good coverage
March	-16.4°C	-24.8°C	8 mm	2.6	11 h 19	5	Good coverage
April	-5.8°C	-14.8°C	9 mm	2.5	15 h 36	5	Good coverage
May	6.5°C	-3°C	12 mm	3.1	20 h 29	10	Good coverage
June	17.3°C	5.9°C	24 mm	3.8	24 h	61	Good coverage
July	18.9°C	9.1°C	41 mm	8.3	24 h	67	Good coverage
August	15.1°C	6.6°C	42 mm	8.7	17 h 32	49	Good coverage
September	7.5°C	1°C	32 mm	7.5	13 h 05	16	Good coverage
October	-2.6°C	-7.5°C	21 mm	5.8	9 h 00	5	Good coverage
November	-14.2°C	-19.7°C	13 mm	4.6	4 h 31	5	Good coverage
December	-19.5°C	-25.2°C	11 mm	3.3	none	5	Good coverage

Records at INUVIK CLIMATE, 2003–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	6.9°C17 Jan 2009	-43.9°C7 Jan 2026	10 mm17 Jan 2012	32 mm2005 · driest 0 mm in 2010	23
February	0.8°C19 Feb 2006	-43.2°C13 Feb 2020	11 mm15 Feb 2006	29 mm2006 · driest 0 mm in 2010	23
March	8.7°C17 Mar 2019	-41.6°C14 Mar 2009	9 mm29 Mar 2017	17 mm2016 · driest 0 mm in 2013	23
April	14.9°C27 Apr 2009	-33.0°C6 Apr 2013	14 mm4 Apr 2004	24 mm2004 · driest 2 mm in 2013	23
May	30.1°C28 May 2010	-23.7°C1 May 2013	27 mm25 May 2024	46 mm2024 · driest 0 mm in 2010	23
June	31.3°C24 Jun 2012	-5.8°C2 Jun 2011	26 mm1 Jun 2014	70 mm2014 · driest 4 mm in 2018	23
July	33.0°C4 Jul 2023	-0.3°C12 Jul 2013	26 mm9 Jul 2012	78 mm2012 · driest 4 mm in 2021	23
August	30.9°C3 Aug 2013	-2.8°C24 Aug 2013	33 mm1 Aug 2009	85 mm2009 · driest 14 mm in 2003	23
September	23.3°C11 Sep 2023	-10.1°C26 Sep 2018	21 mm18 Sep 2009	56 mm2024 · driest 7 mm in 2010	23
October	20.7°C2 Oct 2003	-21.3°C26 Oct 2008	40 mm12 Oct 2024	63 mm2024 · driest 3 mm in 2010	23
November	2.5°C10 Nov 2013	-34.8°C30 Nov 2021	7 mm11 Nov 2016	46 mm2005 · driest 0 mm in 2011	23
December	1.4°C3 Dec 2022	-40.6°C20 Dec 2020	20 mm25 Dec 2003	47 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 2012	23

Typical days per month at INUVIK CLIMATE, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	31	0	3
February	0	28	<1	2
March	0	31	0	2
April	0	30	<1	2
May	<1	21	<1	1
June	3	4	<1	0
July	4	<1	<1	0
August	1	<1	<1	0
September	0	13	<1	<1
October	0	29	<1	2
November	0	30	0	3
December	0	31	<1	2

How often, not how much — every day in INUVIK CLIMATE’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%	14%	0%	13%	-24.6–-16.5°C
February	0%	9%	<1%	5%	-25.3–-14.1°C
March	0%	8%	0%	6%	-22.3–-12.6°C
April	0%	8%	<1%	2%	-10.2–-3.0°C
May	5%	11%	<1%	7%	3.0–9.8°C
June	36%	12%	2%	9%	15.2–19.4°C
July	44%	24%	3%	27%	16.5–21.7°C
August	20%	28%	3%	33%	11.8–17.7°C
September	2%	26%	2%	27%	5.2–10.8°C
October	<1%	19%	<1%	17%	-5.3–-0.4°C
November	0%	17%	0%	13%	-18.0–-9.8°C
December	0%	12%	<1%	8%	-23.9–-16.1°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.

2004Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 21-year average. Warmest: 2023. Coolest: 2004.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5983607
NOAA station: CA002202578 · INUVIK CLIMATE
Station distance: 10 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 17 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 68.36°, 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.

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Best time to visit
Inuvik.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.