Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainNights turn raw in Dauphin each January, colder than in 92% of Canadian towns
July afternoons average 25.1°C. Rain and snow together come to less here than on 78% of Canadian towns. The gap between a January night and a July afternoon is 46°C. Ice scrapers and block heaters earn their keep on roughly 201 days a year at 0°C or below.
Figures: ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals at Dauphin (10 km south-east).
A year in Dauphin at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Dauphin’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba beside it.
What a year in Dauphin feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
201 frost days and 103 days above 20°C a year
The frost season runs September to May, and January freezes nearly every night. On about 54 nights a year the air falls below −20°C.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
About 462 mm of rain and snow a year
The most falls in June, the least in February. 186th wettest of 190 towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
About 95 cm of snow a year
From October to May snow is likely; December is the peak, at about 20 cm. 185th snowiest of 188 towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
ECCC’s Dauphin normals leave snowfall out; the figures here come from Roblin, 85 km away.
Heating a home in Dauphin
90% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Behind the figure: the degrees each day’s mean falls under 18°C, summed for the year. A house here needs more heating than 97% of Canadian towns.
Living with Dauphin’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Count on about 121 frost-free days: the last frost averages 21 May, the first 20 September.
Warm afternoons without cold nights, 17–27°C and 8°C or more, mark Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →The wind chill passes −20 on about 83 days in a normal year.
Count on some 30 humid days a year with the humidex past 30.
Bad-weather days, from blizzards to floods, get their own page for Dauphin: the hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Dauphin
ECCC builds the Dauphin normals from 3 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 10 km south-east |
| Station altitude | 305 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Roblin, 85 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −41.4°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 39.0°C |
| Average wind | 14.8 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Roblin, 85 km |
How Dauphin compares
Against the 2,611 Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, each read from its own normals location; the dots are the other locations those towns use in Manitoba.
Nearby towns’ climate
Places around Dauphin whose figures come from another normals location. Dauphin has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 39–79 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dauphin | 25.1°C | −20.9°C | 462 mm |
| Grandview 39 km · Roblin | 23.7°C 1.4°C cooler | −22.3°C 1.4°C colder | 448 mm |
| Clanwilliam-Erickson 78 km · Brandon | 24.9°C about the same | −21.9°C 1.0°C colder | 489 mm |
Dauphin weather by month
Month by month, 1991–2020: the usual high, low and mean, the rain and snow, and the snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −10.7°C | −20.9°C | −15.8°C | 17 mm | 20 cm |
| February | −8.0°C | −19.1°C | −13.6°C | 12 mm | 10 cm |
| March | −0.9°C | −12.2°C | −6.5°C | 25 mm | 15 cm |
| April | 9.3°C | −3.6°C | 2.9°C | 26 mm | 7 cm |
| May | 17.2°C | 3.0°C | 10.2°C | 51 mm | 2 cm |
| June | 22.3°C | 9.8°C | 16.1°C | 87 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.1°C | 12.4°C | 18.8°C | 71 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.6°C | 10.8°C | 17.8°C | 55 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 18.9°C | 5.7°C | 12.3°C | 53 mm | 1 cm |
| October | 9.8°C | −1.2°C | 4.3°C | 31 mm | 7 cm |
| November | −0.4°C | −9.6°C | −5.0°C | 18 mm | 13 cm |
| December | −8.0°C | −17.7°C | −12.9°C | 17 mm | 20 cm |
| Year | 8.3°C | −3.5°C | 2.4°C | 462 mm | 95 cm |
December strays furthest from its normal year to year, by 4.4°C; July the least
Over 1991–2020, March saw both −39.0°C (2003) and 24.2°C (1993), the widest span of any month.
Where Dauphin’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals at Dauphin, the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals.
- Other locations: a location missing months of precipitation or snow is filled from the nearest that has them all, never mixed month by month.
- Comparisons: every Canadian town and neighbourhood of 2,500 or more, each read from its own nearest location; city totals and reserves are left out.
- Not on this page: sunshine, which none of ECCC’s 450 locations publishes for 1991–2020, and the town’s own height above sea level, so no figure is adjusted for altitude.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Dauphin’s climate
How warm does Dauphin get in summer?
On a normal day in July the thermometer climbs to 25.1°C, the warmest of the year.
How cold does Dauphin get in winter?
Deep winter means January, when nights average −20.9°C.
How much rain and snow does Dauphin get?
Some 462 mm falls in a year. Most of it comes in June (87 mm), the least in February (12 mm).
Are these figures for Dauphin itself?
They are: the normals station that gives them stands in Dauphin.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Dauphin →
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).