Weekly note
Dawson City
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The numbers

Daily high-16°C
Nightly low-24°C
Feels like, afternoon-20°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more3 · 16 mm
Humidity76%
Sunshine5.2 h/day
Daylight8.6 h/day
Crowds100 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at Front Street, the gold-rush town, 15 km from the airport (YDA): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

February: quiet. Busiest in August, October and December; quietest in February and May.

Dawson City in pictures

What to pack

  • A proper coat, hat and gloves: nights average -24°C.
  • Humidity averages 76%; breathable fabrics dry faster.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Type A and B plugs at 120 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Canadian dollar. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for Canada: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Dawson City: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

February elsewhere

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