Right now
16°C / 61°F
Overcast · wind 17 km/h · 53% RH
Soil (6 cm)
12°C / 53°F
Cool-season seeds OK
Hardiness zone
4a
est. from 10-yr extreme low -34°C
Frost window
May 30 – Sep 23
~116 frost-free days · first frost in ~15 days
Sun
07:11 – 20:43
sunrise – sunset today
Moon
Waning Crescent
10% lit · solunar good · full 2026-09-26
7-day forecast
America/Whitehorse
Tue
Drizzle
16° / 9°
1.5 mm
Wed
Rain
11° / 8°
10.8 mm
Thu
Drizzle
11° / 7°
1.5 mm
Fri
Overcast
17° / 3°
dry
Sat
Partly cloudy
19° / 5°
dry
Sun
Drizzle
12° / 7°
6.3 mm
Mon
Drizzle
12° / 5°
0.6 mm
This week
AI field guide · refreshed weeklyWhitehorse Gardening: September 8–14 — Final Harvest & Season Close. Whitehorse Fall Fishing: Lake Trout & Grayling in Early September. Foraging in Whitehorse: Early Fall Harvest.
Gardening
Whitehorse Gardening: September 8–14 — Final Harvest & Season Close
Sow & harvest now
- Winter rye or hairy vetch
- Garlic cloves
- Spring bulbs (tulips, crocuses, alliums)
- Tomatoes, peppers, eggplant
Fishing
Whitehorse Fall Fishing: Lake Trout & Grayling in Early September
What's biting
- Lake Trout (Mackinaw)
- Arctic Grayling
- Northern Pike
- Burbot (Ling)
Foraging
Foraging in Whitehorse: Early Fall Harvest
In season now
- Lingonberry (Cowberry)
- Cloudberry (Baked Apple Berry)
- Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium)
- Labrador Tea (Ledum palustre)
Your ecological region
Boreal North & Taiga
Spruce, permafrost and enormous cold lakes. A short, bright season and a very long winter.
Regional guide →Your hardiness zone
Zone 4a
Estimated from a 10-year average extreme low of -34°C. What grows, what bites and what to forage across your zone.
Zone guide →Get this guide for Whitehorse every week
Frost warnings, what's biting, what's ripening. One email, Sunday evening.