EDMONTON: It is now official: June 2026 has become the wettest month of June on record for the city of Edmonton, with weather tracking data stretching all the way back to the late 1800s.
As of noon on Sunday, June 28th, the city had accumulated a staggering 255 mm of rain, comfortably surpassing the previous June record of 217 mm set back in 1914. With unsettled weather continuing through the remainder of the weekend, there is still a chance to add to this historic total.
The extreme weather trends were echoed across regional tracking stations. The official station at Edmonton International Airport, which holds records dating back to the mid-1960s, had already shattered its own internal record for the wettest June earlier in the week, currently sitting at 212 mm of rainfall.
With these latest figures, June 2026 has officially moved into second place on the list of Edmonton’s all-time wettest months. It sits just behind July 1901, which remains the wettest single month in the city’s history with 283 mm of rain.
Interestingly, several residential backyard weather stations scattered across the city reported even higher rainfall totals than those published by Environment and Climate Change Canada.
While the exact numbers at the Blatchford station required a minor estimate—sitting at an official 248 mm due to missing data from June 26th—meteorologists added a conservative 7 mm based on the average rainfall measured at surrounding stations on that day to reach the 255 mm city benchmark. However, climate experts noted that even without adding that adjustment, June 2026 would still easily claim the title of the wettest June on record for the city.
