Canada · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Whitehorse.

July leads for comfortable weather in Whitehorse: typically 20.7°C by day, 8.5°C at night, with 35 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly
Typical high20.7°C
Typical low8.5°C
Rain in July35 mm
Comfort

July

July · June · August

73climate match
Beach

July

July · June · August

35climate match
Outdoors

July

July · June · August

89climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 73days reach only -11.2°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
5-11.2° / -19.5°
Feb
5-7° / -16.8°
Mar
5-1.2° / -12.7°
Apr
117.4° / -3.9°
May
4414.6° / 1.5°
Jun
6519.4° / 6°
Jul
7320.7° / 8.5°
Aug
6418.8° / 7.1°
Sep
3512.2° / 2.5°
Oct
54.4° / -2.9°
Nov
5-5.2° / -12.2°
Dec
5-8.3° / -16.3°
Monthly climate evidence for Whitehorse — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
MonthDayNightRainWet daysDaylightComfortCoverage
January-11.2°C-19.5°C21 mm6.26 h 285Good coverage
February-7°C-16.8°C11 mm3.98 h 555Good coverage
March-1.2°C-12.7°C11 mm3.611 h 325Good coverage
April7.4°C-3.9°C7 mm214 h 3111Good coverage
May14.6°C1.5°C14 mm3.517 h 1644Good coverage
June19.4°C6°C33 mm6.919 h 0565Good coverage
July20.7°C8.5°C35 mm8.218 h 1973Good coverage
August18.8°C7.1°C39 mm7.815 h 4564Good coverage
September12.2°C2.5°C30 mm712 h 4735Good coverage
October4.4°C-2.9°C22 mm6.19 h 555Good coverage
November-5.2°C-12.2°C23 mm6.87 h 135Good coverage
December-8.3°C-16.3°C17 mm65 h 415Good coverage
Records at WHITEHORSE A, 1942–2025
MonthRecord highRecord lowWettest dayWettest / driest monthYears
January10.0°C18 Jan 2009-52.2°C31 Jan 194710 mm17 Jan 199446 mm1968 · driest 2 mm in 197876
February11.7°C27 Feb 1968-51.2°C2 Feb 196813 mm7 Feb 200937 mm1957 · driest 0 mm in 200073
March11.7°C30 Mar 2016-40.6°C8 Mar 197210 mm7 Mar 196244 mm1986 · driest 0 mm in 200171
April21.8°C30 Apr 2002-29.4°C10 Apr 198616 mm14 Apr 200638 mm1952 · driest 0 mm in 200374
May34.1°C30 May 1983-12.9°C3 May 200213 mm26 May 200038 mm1974 · driest 1 mm in 197178
June34.4°C14 Jun 1969-2.8°C3 Jun 197145 mm27 Jun 198592 mm1953 · driest 6 mm in 198278
July33.2°C30 Jul 2009-0.5°C19 Jul 198423 mm27 Jul 1991110 mm1988 · driest 6 mm in 197178
August31.6°C5 Aug 1999-4.4°C25 Aug 194831 mm1 Aug 1948104 mm1974 · driest 1 mm in 194576
September26.7°C3 Sep 1942-19.4°C27 Sep 198325 mm23 Sep 198667 mm1992 · driest 7 mm in 197673
October19.3°C3 Oct 2003-31.1°C28 Oct 198224 mm2 Oct 197051 mm1970 · driest 1 mm in 194872
November11.7°C2 Nov 1970-41.0°C27 Nov 200611 mm6 Nov 195556 mm2010 · driest 2 mm in 198376
December10.6°C23 Dec 2004-47.8°C19 Dec 194219 mm25 Dec 198043 mm1962 · driest 3 mm in 198377
Typical days per month at WHITEHORSE A, 1991–2020
MonthDays 25°C+Days 30°C+Frost nightsHeavy rain (10 mm+)Snow days
January0028011
February0027<18
March002907
April0024<13
May<1011<11
June3<1<1<1<1
July3<10<10
August3<1<1<10
September008<12
October0021<17
November0027<112
December0027<111
How often, not how much — every day in WHITEHORSE A’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
MonthWarm & dry daysWet daysWashoutsWeek with 3+ wet daysDaytime mean has ranged
January0%20%0%17%-22.0–-4.6°C
February0%15%<1%12%-14.3–-2.3°C
March0%12%<1%9%-5.1–2.2°C
April<1%9%<1%5%3.3–8.7°C
May7%13%<1%9%10.9–16.1°C
June34%21%2%20%16.5–21.2°C
July46%26%2%28%18.5–22.7°C
August31%25%3%28%16.2–21.4°C
September4%24%2%24%10.4–14.3°C
October0%20%<1%18%2.0–6.8°C
November0%22%<1%23%-12.3–0.1°C
December0%20%<1%19%-18.5–-3.8°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.

1943Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 66-year average. Warmest: 1944. Coolest: 1972.2011

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity
GeoNames 6180550
NOAA station
CA002101300 · WHITEHORSE A
Station distance
0.7 km from the place centre
Climate period
1991–2020
Minimum month coverage
20 usable years
Daylight
Calculated from latitude 60.72°, 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 WHITEHORSE A is what differs

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