Canada · 51.18°N 115.57°W · monthly climate normals, judged against the Warm preset (mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F, dry or showers)
No month in Banff fits the Warm preset (mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F, dry or showers) — it is too cold. The table below shows which holiday types do fit.
Rain is spread through the year, 40–80 mm1.6–3.1 in a month, with June the wettest month and February the driest. August is the hottest month at 11 °C52 °F and January the coldest at -11 °C12 °F; the mean stays below freezing from November to April.
Figures are 30-year monthly averages (WorldClim 2.1 monthly normals 1970–2000) for the 0.25° grid cell at 51.18, -115.57 — a climate guide, not a forecast.
Pick the weather you like and every month is judged against it — temperature above the month names, rain below.
No month fits a Warm holiday here.
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Reading the chart. Gold is good: the month fits what you picked. Any other colour names the reason it doesn't — the temperature bar can be too cold or too hot, the rain bar too dry, too rainy or monsoon. A faded gold bar is a half that fits while the other half fails; a gold month name means both fit.
What the verdicts mean. Temperature is the monthly mean, judged against the preset's band (mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F for Warm). Rain is judged by each month's class within Banff's own year rather than raw millimetres: dry under 60 mm2.4 in, showers 60–100 mm2.4–3.9 in, rainy from 100 mm3.9 in and 35 % of the wettest month. Too rainy is a rainy-season month the preset doesn't allow. Monsoon is the heaviest kind of rainy season — 180 mm7.1 in or more (120 mm4.7 in near the yearly peak) in a climate whose wettest month is at least three times its driest — so every monsoon month is rainy season too; the label says which kind. Full rules on the method page.
| Month | Rain | Mean | Season | Warm verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 481.9 | -1111 | dry | too cold |
| February | 401.6 | -817 | dry | too cold |
| March | 401.6 | -522 | dry | too cold |
| April | 481.9 | -130 | dry | too cold |
| May | 642.5 | 438 | showers | too cold |
| June | 803.1 | 846 | showers | too cold |
| July | 722.8 | 1151 | showers | too cold |
| August | 642.5 | 1152 | showers | too cold |
| September | 562.2 | 643 | dry | too cold |
| October | 481.9 | 134 | dry | too cold |
| November | 562.2 | -620 | dry | too cold |
| December | 481.9 | -1111 | dry | too cold |
| Looking for | Rule | Months that fit |
|---|---|---|
| Warm | mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F, dry or showers | |
| Tropical | mean 24–33 °C75–91 °F, anything but the monsoon | |
| Beach | mean 24–33 °C75–91 °F, dry or showers | |
| Cool | mean 0–14 °C32–57 °F, anything but the monsoon | May to October |
| Snow | mean below 0 °C32 °F, any rain | November to April |
Not really. Rain is spread through the year, 40–80 mm1.6–3.1 in a month, with June the wettest month and February the driest.
August is the hottest month at 11 °C52 °F and January the coldest at -11 °C12 °F; the mean stays below freezing from November to April. Annual rainfall totals about 664 mm26 in.
The nearest destinations that do fit the Warm preset in the months Banff doesn't:
The interactive map colours the whole world by how it fits your picks in any month, and shows this chart for any place you tap.