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Yellowknife, Northwest Territories Climate & Temperature

⛺ Yellowknife, Northwest Territories has a snow dry, cool summer climate with at least one month colder than -3° C. This climate is usually at the highest elevations near locations that are warm temperate with dry, hot summers (Köppen-Geiger classification: Dsc).boreal subarctic climate with dry summers (Dsc)

🌡️ The average annual temperature is -5.2 degrees Celsius (22.6 degrees Fahrenheit). See the temperatures page for a monthly breakdown and the fixed scale graph.

🐬 Average monthly temperatures vary by 44.4 °C (79.9°F). This indicates that the continentality type is continental, subtype truly continental.

☔ Total annual precipitation averages 267.4 mm (10.5 inches) which is equivalent to 267.4 Litres/m² (6.56 Gallons/ft²).

Yellowknife, Northwest Territories Climate Graph

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In the winter time records indicate temperatures by day reach -21.2°C (-6.2°F) on average falling to -29.9°C (-21.9°F) overnight.

In spring time temperatures climb reaching -1°C (30.3°F) generally in the afternoon with overnight lows of -12.2°C (10°F).

During summer average high temperatures are 19°C (66.1°F) and average low temperatures are 10.1°C (50.1°F).

Come autumn/ fall temperatures decrease achieving average highs of 0.2°C (32.3°F) during the day and lows of -6.6°C (20.2°F) generally shortly after sunrise.

✨ The longest day of the year is 19:30 long on the 22 of June and the shortest day is 4:29 long on the 21 of December.

🐇Were you to burrow down through the centre of the Earth from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories you would pop up nearest to the climate station at Davis, Antarctica where you would find a Tundra climate.

🌍Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada is at 62°27'N, 114°26'W, 206 m (675 ft). Check the location on the map.

Yellowknife, Northwest Territories Climate Table

Average Max Temperature °C ( °F)
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
-24 (-11) -20 (-3) -13 (10) -1 (31) 10 (50) 18 (64) 21 (69) 18 (65) 10 (50) 1 (34) -11 (13) -20 (-4) -1 (31)
Average Temperature °C ( °F)
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
-28 (-18) -25 (-12) -19 (-1) -6 (21) 5 (41) 13 (56) 17 (62) 14 (57) 7 (44) -1 (29) -15 (5) -24 (-11) -5 (23)
Average Min Temperature °C ( °F)
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
-32 (-26) -29 (-21) -25 (-12) -12 (10) 0 (32) 8 (47) 12 (54) 10 (50) 3 (38) -4 (24) -19 (-2) -28 (-19) -10 (15)
Average Precipitation mm (in)
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
15 (1) 13 (0) 11 (0) 10 (0) 17 (1) 23 (1) 35 (1) 42 (2) 29 (1) 35 (1) 24 (1) 15 (1) 267 (11)
Number of Wet Days (probability of rain on a day %)
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
10 (32) 10 (35) 9 (29) 6 (20) 5 (16) 5 (17) 9 (29) 10 (32) 9 (30) 10 (32) 13 (43) 14 (45) 110 (30)
Average Daylight Hours/ Day
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
6h 06' 8h 45' 11h 45' 14h 54' 17h 51' 19h 42' 18h 50' 16h 05' 12h 58' 9h 50' 6h 53' 5h 06' 12h 00'
Sun altitude at solar noon on the 21st day (°).
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
7.8 17.2 28 39.6 47.8 51 47.9 39.5 28.1 16.7 7.6 4.3 27.9


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