Official Environment Canada weather warnings in force for Banff and the Bow Valley — storms, extreme cold and wildfire smoke — with the wind now and the channels to check when weather turns.
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Official weather warnings in force for Banff and the Bow Valley right now, from Environment and Climate Change Canada, with the wind at the townsite and the channels to check when a storm, cold snap or smoke event hits. When nothing is in force, that is what it says.
No weather warnings for Banff and the Bow Valley right now.
Environment Canada has no warnings in force for Banff and the Bow Valley, as of Thu 2 July at 21:02.
A gentle breeze (about 17 km/h, gusts to 32), out of the west.
Strongest gusts forecast over the next 24 hours: about 40 km/h. Wind words follow the Beaufort scale. This is a weather model’s forecast for the hour, not a measurement — exposed ground above town will see more.
When the weather turns, these are the official channels
Banff runs about eight months of snow. The warnings that land most are snowfall and winter-storm warnings on the passes and extreme-cold warnings when Arctic air settles in the valley — the townsite has seen January nights near -30°C.
In fire season the sky over the Bow Valley can fill with smoke from fires hundreds of kilometres away, and ECCC issues air-quality warnings for it. The town's own air-and-smoke reading sits alongside this page.
Data: Environment and Climate Change Canada (MSC GeoMet), Open Government Licence – Canada, source weather.gc.ca. Warnings are shown unaltered; this page reads the active warnings ECCC has posted for Banff and the Bow Valley. Wind forecast: Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0). This page is not an alert service — sign up to the official channels above.