Osprey Hill, Calgary: winter sun, snow and spring melt

Compared with 133 Calgary communities, Osprey Hill gets about average December sun along its residential streets (median 1.3 h on December 21, city median 1.3 h), has less snow on the ground than most in March, and about average spring ponding in a typical year (LandMood model, 2016–2025). Otherwise its winter is close to typical for Calgary, so the differences that matter are between homes: which way each one faces and what shades it. Check a specific home on the free map.

Osprey Hill is a community built mostly in the 2000s, according to the City of Calgary.

Winter sun

On December 21, the ground along Osprey Hill's residential streets gets a median of 1.3 h of direct sun, about the same as the 1.3 h median across Calgary's communities.

On December 21, about 38% of Osprey Hill's street-side ground gets under half an hour of direct sun (city median 40%).

Which way homes face

Streets here run in mixed directions (about 48% east–west, 28% north–south, the rest diagonal or curved), so homes face every way; which side gets the winter sun depends on the street.

Snow and spring melt

In March, about 44% of Osprey Hill's street-side ground still holds 5 cm of snow or more in a typical year (city median 70%), the 2nd least snowy of 133.

During spring melt, the model expects water to pool (1 cm or more) on about 4% of the street-side and open ground in Osprey Hill (city median 5%).

Buying a home in Osprey Hill: what winter looks like

If you are looking at homes in Osprey Hill or thinking of living there, expect about as much winter sun as the typical Calgary community on the ground along its streets: a median of 1.3 h of direct sun on December 21, against 1.3 h for the city.

Streets in Osprey Hill run in mixed directions, so homes face every way. Which side of a home gets the winter sun, the front with the driveway or the back yard, depends on the street it is on.

Osprey Hill has less snow on the ground in March than most communities and about the typical amount of spring ponding in our model. Wherever a driveway or walk sits in shade, snow tends to stay longer, and melt water that runs across it in the day can refreeze at night.

Homes here are newer and trees are often still young, so much of the winter shade comes from the houses themselves.

At a viewing, check:

• which way the front of the house faces;
• whether the driveway and front steps are in shade around midday;
• where snow has piled up and where melt water has stood or refrozen;
• where the downspouts empty and whether the yard slopes away from the house.

The full list is in buying a house in Calgary in winter.

Within Osprey Hill, two homes on the same street can differ more than Osprey Hill differs from the rest of Calgary. Put the home you are looking at on the map to see its own front yard, back yard and driveway.

Compared with the rest of Calgary

Rank 1 is the highest value among 133 residential communities with enough data. See which ones get the most and least December sun in the Calgary winter sun ranking.

How these numbers are made

LandMood follows the sun hour by hour over 1-metre public lidar of the real houses and trees (Natural Resources Canada) with ten years of weather (2016–2025). For this page we sampled the ground along residential streets (boulevards, front yards and driveways as a band, never a single home) and open ground away from buildings, across the whole community. Snow and water are modelled tendencies shown as shares and bands, not measurements.