Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Kelsey has some of the coldest winter nights among Canadian towns
High summer brings afternoon highs near 23.9°C. By precipitation alone, it ranks drier than 77% of Canadian towns. The wettest month is June; the driest is February. Garden chairs stay out from June to August, the months with highs of 21–24°C.
The nearest ECCC normals location to Kelsey is The Pas, 30 km south-east, and every figure on this page is its.
A year in Kelsey at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Kelsey’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba beside it.
What a year in Kelsey feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
About 205 frosts and 80 warm days a year
Frost comes from September to May; in January almost every night freezes. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 67 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
469 mm of precipitation in a typical year
185th wettest of 190 towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba. Some 74 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
149 cm of snow in a typical year
Snow falls from October to May, most of all in December (about 30 cm). 6th snowiest of 188 towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Kelsey
89% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
Measured against 18°C: each day’s shortfall in mean temperature, added over twelve months. In heating terms, homes need more heating than almost every Canadian town.
Living with Kelsey’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Plant out after about 24 May; the first frost of autumn usually arrives near 22 September, leaving roughly 120 days without frost.
For long days outdoors, Jun, Jul and Aug bring highs of 17–27°C and lows of 8°C or more.
Parks & trails →Plan for about 100 days a year with a wind chill below −20.
Expect around 15 sticky days a year with the humidex above 30.
For the weather that does damage, from ice storms to floods, see Kelsey’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: The Pas
The Pas is a composite: ECCC joins 4 stations’ readings to make its 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 30 km south-east |
| Station altitude | 270 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −41.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 37.6°C |
| Average wind | 13.3 km/h on average, most often from the south-east |
| Next-nearest location | Flin Flon, 59 km |
How Kelsey compares
Compared with 2,611 towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more across Canada; the dots mark the other normals locations in Manitoba.
Nearby towns’ climate
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Kelsey’s own would show the same figures). The one place listed is 72 km from Kelsey, the nearest with figures.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kelsey The Pas | 23.9°C | −23.4°C | 469 mm |
| Creighton 72 km · Flin Flon | 23.7°C about the same | −24.1°C 0.7°C colder | 491 mm |
Kelsey weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −14.2°C | −23.4°C | −18.8°C | 20 mm | 28 cm |
| February | −10.7°C | −21.7°C | −16.2°C | 12 mm | 18 cm |
| March | −2.9°C | −15.1°C | −9.0°C | 16 mm | 18 cm |
| April | 6.6°C | −5.2°C | 0.7°C | 22 mm | 15 cm |
| May | 14.8°C | 2.2°C | 8.5°C | 39 mm | 3 cm |
| June | 20.7°C | 9.3°C | 15.0°C | 80 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 23.9°C | 12.8°C | 18.4°C | 77 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 22.5°C | 11.6°C | 17.1°C | 64 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 16.2°C | 6.0°C | 11.1°C | 55 mm | under 1 cm |
| October | 6.9°C | −0.8°C | 3.1°C | 41 mm | 13 cm |
| November | −3.6°C | −10.8°C | −7.2°C | 23 mm | 25 cm |
| December | −11.3°C | −19.7°C | −15.6°C | 20 mm | 30 cm |
| Year | 5.7°C | −4.6°C | 0.6°C | 469 mm | 149 cm |
December varies most from one year to the next (4.2°C), July least
Each bar spans a month’s coldest and warmest readings over thirty years; April’s run from −30.5°C in 2018 to 24.8°C in 1998.
Where Kelsey’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: 1991–2020 normals for The Pas from ECCC’s climate data site, the nearest location with every month of temperature.
- Comparisons: Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of at least 2,500, each placed by its nearest location (city totals and reserves excluded).
- 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 Kelsey’s climate
How warm does Kelsey get in summer?
The year’s warmest days come in July, with highs averaging 23.9°C.
How cold does Kelsey get in winter?
In January, the coldest month, the typical low is −23.4°C.
How much rain and snow does Kelsey get?
Around 469 mm a year in all, from 80 mm in June down to 12 mm in February.
How long does snow stay on the ground?
Snow lies on the ground for about 163 days in a normal year.
Are these figures for Kelsey itself?
Not quite: they come from The Pas, the closest ECCC normals location to Kelsey.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Kelsey →
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).