Downtown Calgary weather
Downtown sits on the floor of the Bow River valley, which makes it one of the milder parts of the city on a cold morning — cold air drains off the surrounding benchlands, and the mass of concrete and glass holds daytime heat well into the evening.
Right now in Downtown Calgary: mostly cloudy, 6°C (feels like 6°C), wind W 11 km/h. Today's high 11°C, low 0°C. Tomorrow 14°C / 1°C, 0% chance of precipitation.
No hail signal in the model for roughly the next 12 hours.
Downtown Calgary hourly weather
| Time | Conditions | Temp | Feels like | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Now | Mostly cloudy | 6°C | 6°C | 0% |
| 2 a.m. (+30m) | Mostly cloudy | 5°C | 5°C | 0% |
| 5 a.m. (+3h) | Mostly cloudy | 1°C | -2°C | 0% |
| 8 a.m. (+6h) | Partly cloudy | 0°C | -3°C | 0% |
| 2 p.m. (+12h) | Mostly cloudy | 10°C | 7°C | 0% |
7-day forecast for Downtown Calgary
| Day | Conditions | High | Low | Precip. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today (Tue, Nov 10) | Mostly cloudy | 11°C | 0°C | 0% |
| Wed, Nov 11 | Overcast | 14°C | 1°C | 0% |
| Thu, Nov 12 | Overcast | 16°C | 1°C | 0% |
| Fri, Nov 13 | Overcast | 15°C | -4°C | 0% |
| Sat, Nov 14 | Mostly cloudy | 14°C | -3°C | 0% |
| Sun, Nov 15 | Mostly clear | 13°C | -5°C | 0% |
| Mon, Nov 16 | Mostly cloudy | 9°C | -5°C | 0% |
What the weather is like in Downtown Calgary
The trade-off is wind: the tower canyons along 8th and 9th Avenue funnel and accelerate a west wind, so the feels-like number downtown is often harsher than the temperature alone suggests.
Downtown sits at about 1,045 m, roughly 40 m below the Calgary International Airport weather station 8.5 km to the northeast. Water bounds it on two sides: the Bow River and Prince's Island Park to the north, and the Elbow River to the east, the two rivers meeting near the historic Fort Calgary site.
That position has a cost. In the June 2013 flood the Bow peaked at a record 1,750 m³/s and the Elbow ran at about ten times its seasonal average. Downtown and the East Village, Chinatown and Eau Claire, the Beltline, Victoria Park and Mission were all flooded, and the core stayed closed until June 26.
Communities in this district
This reading covers 60 Calgary communities, including Altadore, Alyth/Bonnybrook, Banff Trail, Bankview, Bel-Aire, Beltline and others listed below. Click the district on the live map to see it highlighted.
Altadore · Alyth/Bonnybrook · Banff Trail · Bankview · Bel-Aire · Beltline · Bridgeland/Riverside · Britannia · Burns Industrial · Cambrian Heights · Capitol Hill · Chinatown · Cliff Bungalow · Crescent Heights · Downtown Commercial Core · Downtown East Village · Downtown West End · Eau Claire · Elbow Park · Elboya · Erlton · Garrison Woods · Greenview · Greenview Industrial Park · Highfield · Highland Park · Highwood · Hillhurst · Hounsfield Heights/Briar Hill · Inglewood · Killarney/Glengarry · Lower Mount Royal · Manchester · Manchester Industrial · Mayfair · Meadowlark Park · Mission · Mount Pleasant · Parkdale · Parkhill · Queens Park Village · Ramsay · Renfrew · Richmond · Rideau Park · Rosedale · Rosemont · Roxboro · Scarboro · Scarboro/Sunalta West · Shaganappi · South Calgary · St. Andrews Heights · Sunalta · Sunnyside · Tuxedo Park · Upper Mount Royal · West Hillhurst · Windsor Park · Winston Heights/Mountview
Other parts of Calgary
- Edgemont weather
- Rundle weather
- Signal Hill weather
- Fish Creek weather
- Calgary Airport (YYC) weather
- Forest Lawn weather
- Seton weather
- Huntington Hills weather
More Calgary weather
- Calgary weather — live map of every neighbourhood
- Calgary weather radar
- Calgary hail today
- Is a chinook coming?
- Calgary hail season
- Hailstorm Alley explained
- What is AQHI?
- Chinook winds explained
- When does it snow?
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