Penbrooke Meadows, Calgary: winter sun, snow and spring melt

Compared with 133 Calgary communities, Penbrooke Meadows gets more December sun than most along its residential streets (median 1.8 h on December 21, city median 1.3 h), has less snow on the ground than most in March, and more spring ponding than most in a typical year (LandMood model, 2016–2025).

Penbrooke Meadows is a community built mostly in the 1960s and 1970s, according to the City of Calgary.

Winter sun

On December 21, the ground along Penbrooke Meadows' residential streets gets a median of 1.8 h of direct sun, more than the 1.3 h median across Calgary's communities.

On December 21, about 35% of Penbrooke Meadows' 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 41% east–west, 44% 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 66% of Penbrooke Meadows' street-side ground still holds 5 cm of snow or more in a typical year (city median 70%).

During spring melt, the model expects water to pool (1 cm or more) on about 7% of the street-side and open ground in Penbrooke Meadows (city median 5%), the 21st most prone to spring ponding of 133.

Buying a home in Penbrooke Meadows: what winter looks like

If you are looking at homes in Penbrooke Meadows or thinking of living there, expect more winter sun than most of Calgary on the ground along its streets: a median of 1.8 h of direct sun on December 21, against 1.3 h for the city.

Streets in Penbrooke Meadows 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.

Penbrooke Meadows has less snow on the ground in March than most communities and more spring ponding than most 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.

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 Penbrooke Meadows, two homes on the same street can differ more than Penbrooke Meadows 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 its neighbours

Penbrooke Meadows gets about as much December sun along its streets as the communitys around it.

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.