Right now
15°C / 60°F
Overcast · wind 12 km/h · 64% RH
Soil (6 cm)
10°C / 50°F
Cool-season seeds OK
Hardiness zone
2b
est. from 10-yr extreme low -40°C
Frost window
May 27 – Sep 25
~121 frost-free days · first frost in ~17 days
Sun
06:44 – 20:23
sunrise – sunset today
Moon
Waning Crescent
10% lit · solunar good · full 2026-09-26
7-day forecast
America/Edmonton
Tue
Showers
16° / 8°
3 mm
Wed
Drizzle
16° / 10°
2.6 mm
Thu
Drizzle
14° / 11°
0.1 mm
Fri
Overcast
10° / 8°
dry
Sat
Overcast
14° / 7°
dry
Sun
Overcast
15° / 7°
dry
Mon
Drizzle
10° / 5°
0.6 mm
This week
AI field guide · refreshed weeklyYellowknife Gardening: September 8–14 — Race the Frost. Fall Fishing in Yellowknife: Arctic Char and Lake Trout in September. Yellowknife Foraging: Early Fall Harvest (September).
Gardening
Yellowknife Gardening: September 8–14 — Race the Frost
Sow & harvest now
- Spinach (Spinacia oleracea)
- Arugula (Eruca sativa)
- Mâche (Valerianella locusta)
- Radish (Raphanus sativus)
Fishing
Fall Fishing in Yellowknife: Arctic Char and Lake Trout in September
What's biting
- Arctic Char
- Lake Trout
- Northern Pike
- Whitefish (Broad Whitefish & Arctic Cisco)
Foraging
Yellowknife Foraging: Early Fall Harvest (September)
In season now
- Labrador Tea (Rhododendron groenlandicum)
- Cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus)
- Crowberry (Empetrum nigrum)
- Lingonberry / Partridgeberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea)
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 2b
Estimated from a 10-year average extreme low of -40°C. What grows, what bites and what to forage across your zone.
Zone guide →Get this guide for Yellowknife every week
Frost warnings, what's biting, what's ripening. One email, Sunday evening.