Carcross and Tagish are very close to Whitehorse. While no independent climate information is available for the smaller communities, climate information for Whitehorse gives a fairly good indication of general weather conditions. In addition, Carcross is influenced by coastal weather, which results in milder winter weather than Whitehorse and generally a little less snow.
Over the past few decades, the daily temperature in January in Whitehorse reached daytime highs of minus 13 Celsius, dropping to minus 22 C overnight. In July the daily temperatures typically reach a high of 20 C and a low at night of about 8 C. The record high for Whitehorse was 27.5 degrees, and the record low was minus 47 degrees. Whitehorse has a relatively dry climate. Annual precipitation over several decades averaged close to 270 millimetres, including 160 to 165 mm of rain and 145 centimetres of snow.
