Photo: eileenmak · CC BY 2.0Morden has colder winter nights than 85% of Canadian towns
Sunny July days climb to about 25.6°C. Counting rain and snow together, it is drier than 69% of Canadian towns. Some 44°C separates winter nights from summer afternoons. Comfortable outdoor weather lasts from June to September, with highs of 20–26°C.
1991–2020 normals from ECCC’s Morden location, 2.4 km south-east.
A year in Morden at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Morden’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba beside it.
What a year in Morden feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
182 frost days and 111 days above 20°C a year
Frost comes from September to May; in December almost every night freezes. Some 39 nights a year drop under −20°C.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
About 528 mm of rain and snow a year
The most falls in June, the least in February. About 74 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 137 cm in a normal year
Snow falls from October to May, most of all in December (about 34 cm). 9th snowiest of 187 towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
ECCC’s Morden normals leave snowfall out; the figures here come from Cypress River, 81 km away.
Heating a home in Morden
92% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Warm days count for nothing; each colder day adds how far its mean sits below 18°C. A house here needs more heating than 82% of Canadian towns.
Living with Morden’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
The growing season between frosts lasts about 135 days, roughly 15 May to 28 September.
Afternoons of 17–27°C and nights of at least 8°C arrive in Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Winter brings about 69 days with a wind chill below −20.
On some 37 days a year the humidex climbs past 30.
A normal year has no blizzard, flood or heat wave in it; Morden’s hazards page looks at those.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Morden
ECCC builds the Morden normals from 2 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 2.4 km south-east |
| Station altitude | 298 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Cypress River, 81 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −42.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 39.1°C |
| Average wind | 12.7 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Emerson, 70 km |
How Morden 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 Morden whose figures come from another normals location. Morden has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 41–55 km out.
Morden weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −9.5°C | −18.5°C | −14.0°C | 17 mm | 23 cm |
| February | −7.2°C | −16.4°C | −11.8°C | 16 mm | 18 cm |
| March | 0.0°C | −9.0°C | −4.5°C | 20 mm | 16 cm |
| April | 10.0°C | −1.4°C | 4.3°C | 30 mm | 11 cm |
| May | 18.1°C | 5.5°C | 11.8°C | 76 mm | 6 cm |
| June | 23.2°C | 11.9°C | 17.6°C | 89 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.6°C | 14.3°C | 20.0°C | 73 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.4°C | 13.0°C | 19.2°C | 65 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.1°C | 8.0°C | 14.1°C | 54 mm | under 1 cm |
| October | 10.9°C | 1.1°C | 6.0°C | 39 mm | 8 cm |
| November | 0.7°C | −7.5°C | −3.4°C | 27 mm | 22 cm |
| December | −6.7°C | −14.9°C | −10.8°C | 22 mm | 34 cm |
| Year | 9.2°C | −1.2°C | 4.0°C | 528 mm | 137 cm |
A December here can run warm or cold, its average moving by about 4.2°C; the steadiest month is August
Each bar spans a month’s coldest and warmest readings over thirty years; March’s run from −32.8°C in 2003 to 23.1°C in 2012.
Where Morden’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the Canadian Climate Normals, 1991–2020, at Morden (the closest location with all twelve months of temperatures).
- 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: a sunshine figure (ECCC published none for 1991–2020) and any lapse-rate correction for height, as the town has no elevation here.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Morden’s climate
How warm does Morden get in summer?
Summer peaks in July: a typical afternoon reaches 25.6°C.
How cold does Morden get in winter?
Midwinter means January, when a typical night reaches −18.5°C.
How much rain and snow does Morden get?
A normal year brings 528 mm, snow included as water: June is wettest at 89 mm, February driest at 16 mm.
Are these figures for Morden itself?
Close to it: they are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Morden, just outside Morden’s boundary.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Morden →
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).