Today
Has it rained enough in Edmonton?
Rain soaked properly in 2 days ago, and the ground is still holding some of it.
Edmonton has had 40.5mm of rain in the last 30 days. That is well above the 23.1mm a normal October brings here, and closer to the wettest on record (48.6mm).
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
17 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
2 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Edmonton through a normal year
Across a normal year Edmonton gets about 480.4mm of rain, most of it in July (92.6mm) and least in February (12.6mm).
A normal October in Edmonton has rain on 10 days. Only 4 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Edmonton the driest place this site covers in Canada in October — 23.1mm against Vancouver's 249.2mm at the other end.
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Average rainfall by month, 1995–2024
What it means
What that means for what you grow
- Pots and hanging basketsWorth checking by hand even so — a pot in the sun can dry out in a wet week, because there is so little soil to hold anything.
- Beds and bordersNothing needed. Watering soil that is already wet does more harm than good.
- New plantingsAnything planted within the last month is the exception; its roots have not spread far enough to find water on their own.