Drumheller also known as Dinosaur Valley is located 81 miles northeast of Calgary in Alberta. Made up of mostly barren terrain that includes grasslands, hoodoos, canyons and coulees. It is home to the largest dinosaur statue in the world located in downtown Drumheller and best known for the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology.
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- Drumheller is named after Colonel Samuel Drumheller, who bought land in 1910 and started coal mining operations here in 1911. The city became a railway station in 1912. It then incorporated as a village on May 15, 1913.
- Drumheller holds a small population of only 8,000 people.
- People experience alot of Chinook's in Drumheller which are very warm and dry winds that cause sudden and drastic temperature increases in Drumheller throughout the winter months. During a Chinook, air temperature can raise by as much as 30 degrees Celsius in just a few hours. Chinooks typically last for a couple of days, during which time the snow melts very quickly. Once the Chinook passes, the water refreezes and the roads and sidewalks can get very icy. For this reason, sanding trucks are a common sight in southern Alberta during the winter months.
Drumheller has many attractions to suit all from the world's largest dinosaur statue to award winning theatres, there is plenty to do in this city.
Royal Tyrrell Museum
The Royal Tyrrell Museum is Canada’s only museum dedicated exclusively to the science of palaeontology. The Museum offers a wide variety of creative, fun, and educational programs that bring the prehistoric past to life. Outside the museum you will also find the world's largest dinosaur statue. Visitors can climb the giant T-rex and admire the badlands from inside her gaping jaws. On your way up, you'll see mural paintings, fossil displays and the newest addition a view into the badlands featuring an articulated dinosaur skeleton.
Rosebud Theatre
The rosebud theatre is an award-wining professional theatre company, and is an excellent evening out for all the family. Dine in the historic dining room before enjoying a show in the Opera House.
Canadian's Badlands Passion Play
The Passion Play takes you 2000 years back in time for a dramatic portrayal of the life and death of Christ. The play takes place in a natural 2500-seat outdoor amphitheatre formed by the massive Badlands coulees. With costumes and sets based on historical data from ancient Jerusalem, the Passion Play transports audiences back to the time of Roman soldiers and peasant masses.
During the course of the year the temperature varies from -17°C to 27°C. The warm season last from June to September with an average daily high temperature above 21 °C. The cold season lasts from November to March with and average daily high temperature below 0°C.
Please find below the average high and low temperatures in degrees Celsius.
January: - 17 to - 7
February: -15 to -1
March: - 13 to 1
April: 0 to 14
May: 8 to 18
June: 9 to 21
July: 13 to 27
August: 10 to 25
September: 6 to 20
October: - 2 to 12
November: - 8 to 6
December: - 17 to -6
