Photo: R Reimer at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Gimli sits near the bottom of Canadian towns for winter warmth
July afternoons average 25.3°C. It is a dry place: less rain and snow fall here than on 75% of Canadian towns. The year swings widely: the coldest month’s nights and the warmest month’s afternoons are 48°C apart. Windshields need scraping on about 195 mornings a year, the days the air reaches 0°C or below.
1991–2020 normals from ECCC’s Gimli station, 1.4 km south-west.
A year in Gimli at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Gimli’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba beside it.
What a year in Gimli feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
Frost on 195 days, 20°C on 99
Frost comes from September to May; in January almost every night freezes. On about 56 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 517 mm of rain and snow a year
June is the wettest month and February the driest. On about 79 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
About 182 cm of snow a year
Expect snow from October to May, with about 39 cm in December, the snowiest month. The snowiest of 187 towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Gimli publishes no full year of snowfall, so these figures come from Hodgson, 70 km away.
Heating a home in Gimli
91% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Heating degree days total each day’s gap between its mean temperature and 18°C. Homes here need more heating than 96% of Canadian towns.
Living with Gimli’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Plant out after about 25 May; the first frost of autumn usually arrives near 27 September, leaving roughly 124 days without frost.
Highs of 17–27°C with nights of 8°C or more come in Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →A normal year has no blizzard, flood or heat wave in it; Gimli’s hazards page looks at those.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Gimli
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for Gimli are 3 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 1.4 km south-west |
| Station altitude | 223 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Hodgson, 70 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −45.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 37.0°C |
| Next-nearest location | Hodgson, 70 km |
How Gimli 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
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Gimli’s would only repeat its figures. Gimli has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 43–54 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gimli | 25.3°C | −22.7°C | 517 mm |
| Bifrost-Riverton 43 km · Hodgson | 25.2°C about the same | −24.3°C 1.6°C colder | 602 mm |
| Stony Mountain 51 km · Winnipeg Richardson (Airport) | 25.8°C 0.5°C warmer | −21.2°C 1.5°C milder | 519 mm |
| Fort Alexander 3 51 km · Pinawa | 25.2°C about the same | −21.7°C 1.0°C milder | 571 mm |
Gimli weather by month
Average daily high and low, mean temperature, rain and snow (as water) and snowfall by month, 1991–2020.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −12.2°C | −22.7°C | −17.5°C | 19 mm | 35 cm |
| February | −9.1°C | −20.5°C | −14.8°C | 12 mm | 21 cm |
| March | −1.2°C | −12.4°C | −6.8°C | 23 mm | 26 cm |
| April | 8.7°C | −3.2°C | 2.7°C | 28 mm | 15 cm |
| May | 16.4°C | 3.7°C | 10.0°C | 61 mm | 5 cm |
| June | 22.4°C | 10.8°C | 16.6°C | 87 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.3°C | 13.1°C | 19.2°C | 77 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.4°C | 11.8°C | 18.1°C | 70 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 18.9°C | 7.1°C | 13.0°C | 55 mm | under 1 cm |
| October | 9.7°C | 0.3°C | 5.0°C | 44 mm | 10 cm |
| November | −0.3°C | −8.7°C | −4.5°C | 23 mm | 32 cm |
| December | −8.6°C | −17.9°C | −13.3°C | 18 mm | 39 cm |
| Year | 7.9°C | −3.2°C | 2.3°C | 517 mm | 182 cm |
A March here can run from −37.0°C to 24.1°C
Bars run from each month’s record low to its record high over 1991–2020; December is the month whose average wanders most from year to year (±4.2°C around −13.3°C), July the one that wanders least (±1.1°C).
Where Gimli’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: 1991–2020 normals for Gimli from ECCC’s climate data site, the nearest location with every month of temperature.
- Other locations: ECCC blanks a month that fails its completeness rule, so the precipitation or snowfall here comes from the next location with all twelve months.
- Comparisons: every place of 2,500+ in Canada but the city hubs and the reserves, each on its nearest ECCC location.
- Not on this page: sunshine (no 1991–2020 normals exist for it) and any altitude adjustment, since there is no elevation for the town itself.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Gimli’s climate
How warm does Gimli get in summer?
Expect highs near 25.3°C in July, the hottest month on average.
How cold does Gimli get in winter?
On a normal January night the air drops to −22.7°C, the coldest of the year.
How much rain and snow does Gimli get?
A normal year brings 517 mm, snow included as water: June is wettest at 87 mm, February driest at 12 mm.
Are these figures for Gimli itself?
Yes: ECCC’s normals station is inside Gimli itself.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Gimli →
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