Photo: Intermedichbo · CC BY-SA 4.0Nights turn raw in Dauphin each January, colder than in 92% of Canadian towns
Sunny July days climb to about 25.1°C. Counting rain and snow together, it is drier than 78% of Canadian towns. Some 46°C separates winter nights from summer afternoons. Frost comes on about 201 days a year, so leave time to clear the car.
Figures: ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Dauphin (5.7 km south).
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.
Frost on 201 days, 20°C on 103
From September to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 54 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
Rain and melted snow: about 462 mm a year
The most falls in June, the least in February. 186th wettest of 189 towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
About 95 cm of snow a year
Snow falls from October to May, most of all in December (about 20 cm). 185th snowiest of 187 towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snowfall: Roblin, 92 km away (Dauphin records no complete year of it).
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.
Think of it as a year’s worth of daily shortfalls below 18°C, added up. Over a year, a home 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.
About 121 days a year pass without frost, from an average last frost of 21 May to a first of 20 September.
Warm afternoons without cold nights, 17–27°C and 8°C or more, mark Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →On some 83 days a year the wind chill drops past −20; mitts and a scarf earn their place.
A humidex above 30 marks about 30 days in a normal year.
For blizzards, floods and wildfire, turn to Dauphin’s 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 | 5.7 km south |
| Station altitude | 305 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Roblin, 92 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, 92 km |
How Dauphin compares
Placed among 2,611 Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+, each on its nearest normals location; each dot is another location used in Manitoba.
Nearby towns’ climate
Places around Dauphin whose figures come from another normals location. No closer places have figures: these lie 46–76 km from Dauphin.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dauphin | 25.1°C | −20.9°C | 462 mm |
| Grandview 46 km · Roblin | 23.7°C 1.4°C cooler | −22.3°C 1.4°C colder | 448 mm |
| Clanwilliam-Erickson 74 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 |
March has run from −39.0°C to 24.2°C in thirty years
Year to year, December varies most (a standard deviation of 4.4°C around −12.9°C) and July least (1.3°C).
Where Dauphin’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s normals for Dauphin, 1991–2020, chosen as the nearest location with a full temperature record.
- Other locations: precipitation and snowfall come from the nearest location that publishes all twelve months of them, as named above.
- 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?
In July, the warmest month, the typical high is 25.1°C.
How cold does Dauphin get in winter?
Overnight lows average −20.9°C in January, the coldest month.
How much rain and snow does Dauphin get?
The yearly total is about 462 mm. June gets 87 mm, the most of any month; February gets 12 mm, the least.
Are these figures for Dauphin itself?
Nearly: Dauphin, the location behind them, sits just beyond Dauphin’s boundary.
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).