Carmacks is located at the southern edge of the central Yukon region that tends to experience extremes in temperature. Specific climate information for Carmacks is not available. Because of the Yukon's mountainous terrain, weather varies widely in the Territory, even between communities located relatively near each other. Nevertheless, climate information for Faro, 180 km to the east on the Robert Campbell Highway, is probably the best available indicator of the Carmacks climate.
Over the past few decades Faro's typical January weather was a daytime high of minus 17 degrees Celsius, dropping to minus 26 C at night. Temperatures in July and August typically reached a daily maximum of 18 C to 21 C, with night-time temperatures of 6 C to 9 C. Total annual precipitation in Faro over the 1971-to-2000 period averaged 316 mm, with a little more than two-thirds falling as rain and about 110 cm as snow.
