November 2025 Review

Somehow it's December already, which means that it's time for our big look back at Edmonton weather for November 2025.

November is one of the months where our average temperatures haven't changed too much over the past century. 

But November 2025 was still warmish. 

The average High of 3.3°C was our 44th warmest, and average Low of -6°C was 43rd. That's just a little below 2023 & 2021.





High Temperatures

November was pretty mild for most of the month, but it did cool off for the final week. 

Overall 23 Highs were above average, and 7 were below. Nothing was close to a record, or even to the top or bottom of our ranges.

November averages around 18 Highs above-freezing, and 2025 had 24. 

It also averages 2 Highs below 10°C, and this year we got 1.





Low Temperatures

November's Lows were above average for most of the month, before cooling off near the end.

November 10th's Low of 2.9°C was close to the record of 3.3°C from 1895, but other than that they were pretty typical.

The 29th's -19.3°C got us really close to our first -20°C.

So we narrowly missed a -20°C with the 29th's -19.3°C. 

But in November getting all of the way to -20°C is not that common. 

2010-2014 had a bunch of early deepfreezes, including a -29.8°C in 2014. But since 2014, only November 2023 has crossed the -20°C mark.





Warm & Cold Months

November 2025 gets a medium orange bubble here, because it was fairly warm.

The average High of 3.1°C was 2.7°C warmer than the 20th century average. The average Low of -6°C was 2.5°C warmer.

So far February is 2025's only blue month.





Across Canada

Across the country November was cooler than the 20th century average in Ontario & Quebec (and Moncton), and warmer everywhere else.

That ranged from Dawson City with an average High 4.8°C above its 20th century average, to Ottawa at -1.5°C below theirs.





The Horserace

With a month left in 2025 its average temperature is currently Edmonton's 5th warmest overall, at 2.4°C above the 20th century average.

The Highs are actually our 4th warmest, while Lows are 5th, and combined they rank as 5th.

With 1 month left, 2025's average temperature is top-5 in Dawson City, Kelowna, Edmonton & St. John's, and top-10 in Calgary & Charlottetown.





Precipitation

In November we average 20mm of precipitation.

Blatchford got close with 16.5mm, the airport got 14.9mm, and Stony Plain got 12.9mm.

November's precipitation included 4 rainy days: the 1st, 6th, 13th & 23rd. Even though we think of November as a winter month, most Novembers get a few days with rain.

By the end of November we average around 416mm of precipitation for the year. 

2025 has had a really low September, July, April & February, so it's below average.

The airport and Campsie are at 376mm. Stony Plain is down at 296mm, and Blatchford has 286mm.





Precipitation Across Canada

These are the precipitation totals for 2025 across the country. 

St. John's & Quebec City are way out ahead with around 1100mm. The rest of eastern & central Canada range from 700-900mm. The west is below 500mm, except for Vancouver at 774mm.

For big November storms: 

• St. John's had 5 from 25-37mm
• Victoria had 31mm
• Halifax had 28mm

For Edmonton the biggest was 6mm on the 1st.




Snow

In November we average 20cm of snow, and in 2025 we got 12cm.

We average 8 snow days, and the airport got 5.

These are the cities with snowfall so far. 

Calgary was the only one to record any before November. 

But by the end of November Calgary, Ottawa & Montréal have all had over 25cm.

(although many cities, like Saskatoon, Regina & Winnipeg do not record snowfall)





First Snow

Historically, our first snow has been around the middle of October. That's for the airport and Blatchford, going back to the 1880s.

In 2025 our first snow wasn't until November 7th, and 2021-2025 were all pretty late.

This one is pretty busy, but it gives a sense of the snow season for all these cities. Edmonton, Calgary & Dawson city all get started early.

And unsurprisingly, Vancouver, Victoria & Kelowna get started late.





Snowdepth

We often start to see lasting snow in the first week of November.

2025 waited until November 28th, and it's still pretty low with 5cm at the airport.

2024 was November 22nd, and 2023 was December 3rd.

But who knows what the winter of 2025-2026 really has in store for us?

A bunch of cities saw their snowdepths spike in November. 

Dawson City, Calgary, Ottawa & Quebec City all got above 10cm, and Moncton got to 28cm.



December

As for December - it's winter.

We do still average about 10 days with Highs above 0°C.

About half of the time December will hit -25°C, but since 1990 there have been 6 Decembers which didn't hit -20°C (including 2019 & 2023).

And December averages 16cm of snow.