Maple Creek, Saskatchewan

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Maple Creek is a town in southwestern Saskatchewan, located southeast of Medicine Hat, Alberta and north of the Cypress Hills. With the exception of Lethbridge, winters in Maple Creek are typically warmer than those in the adjacent plain region of southern Alberta and Saskatchewan, being a convalescence point for chinook winds originating from both the Canadian and American Rocky Mountain fronts. The mean maximum temperature in January 2006 was 5.3 °C[1] for the Maple Creek townsite, compared to 5.0 °C[2] for Calgary and 4.7 °C[3] for Medicine Hat.



North: Leader
West: Medicine Hat Eastend East: Gull Lake
South: Cypress Hills