Photo: Shahnoor Habib Munmun · CC BY 3.0Morris has colder winter nights than 89% of Canadian towns
High summer brings afternoon highs near 26.0°C. It is a dry place: less rain and snow fall here than on 69% of Canadian towns. The wettest month is June; the driest is February. Expect about 186 frosty starts a year, days when the air falls to freezing.
These are not Morris’s own readings: ECCC keeps no normals there, so the page uses Emerson, 38 km south.
A year in Morris at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Morris’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba beside it.
What a year in Morris feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
Frost on 186 days, 20°C on 117
From September to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. Some 46 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 543 mm of rain and snow a year
8th wettest of 190 towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba. On about 75 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 126 cm in a normal year
From October to May snow is likely; December is the peak, at about 27 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Emerson publishes no full year of snowfall, so these figures come from Winnipeg Richardson (Airport), 64 km away.
Heating a home in Morris
92% 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. In heating terms, homes need more heating than 82% of Canadian towns.
Living with Morris’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Warm afternoons without cold nights, 17–27°C and 8°C or more, mark Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →On some 79 days a year the wind chill drops past −20; mitts and a scarf earn their place.
A humidex above 30 marks about 43 days in a normal year.
Thirty years of averages say little about one bad storm; Morris’s hazards page does.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Emerson
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for Emerson are 3 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 38 km south |
| Station altitude | 238 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Winnipeg Richardson (Airport), 64 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −43.2°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 37.8°C |
| Average wind | 16.7 km/h on average, most often from the south |
| Next-nearest location | Morden, 56 km |
How Morris 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 Morris whose figures come from another normals location. Distances here run 36–42 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Morris.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morris Emerson | 26.0°C | −20.4°C | 543 mm |
| Niverville 36 km · Winnipeg Richardson (Airport) | 25.8°C about the same | −21.2°C 0.8°C colder | 519 mm |
| Rhineland 39 km · Morden | 25.6°C about the same | −18.5°C 1.9°C milder | 528 mm |
Morris weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −10.6°C | −20.4°C | −15.5°C | 16 mm | 25 cm |
| February | −7.8°C | −18.4°C | −13.1°C | 16 mm | 12 cm |
| March | −0.1°C | −10.2°C | −5.2°C | 24 mm | 19 cm |
| April | 10.6°C | −1.5°C | 4.6°C | 29 mm | 14 cm |
| May | 19.2°C | 5.4°C | 12.3°C | 79 mm | 4 cm |
| June | 23.8°C | 11.5°C | 17.7°C | 90 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 26.0°C | 13.4°C | 19.7°C | 88 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.6°C | 11.8°C | 18.7°C | 62 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.5°C | 7.1°C | 13.8°C | 51 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 11.2°C | 0.2°C | 5.7°C | 41 mm | 4 cm |
| November | 1.1°C | −7.8°C | −3.4°C | 25 mm | 21 cm |
| December | −7.3°C | −16.3°C | −11.8°C | 21 mm | 27 cm |
| Year | 9.4°C | −2.1°C | 3.6°C | 543 mm | 126 cm |
Two years in three, February’s average lands within 4.1°C of normal, against the steadier July
Records from 1991 to 2020: no month spans more than February, between −43.2°C (1996) and 14.1°C (2000).
Where Morris’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the Canadian Climate Normals, 1991–2020, at Emerson (the closest location with all twelve months of temperatures).
- Other locations: precipitation and snowfall come from the nearest location that publishes all twelve months of them, as named above.
- Comparisons: a pool of Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, read alike; whole cities and reserves stay out of it.
- Not on this page: sunshine, not in ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals, and the effect of the town’s height, for which there is no figure.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Morris’s climate
How warm does Morris get in summer?
At its warmest, in July, the normal high is 26.0°C.
How cold does Morris get in winter?
Midwinter means January, when a typical night reaches −20.4°C.
How much rain and snow does Morris get?
Some 543 mm falls in a year. Most of it comes in June (90 mm), the least in February (16 mm).
Are these figures for Morris itself?
Not as such: Emerson is the nearest normals location, and Morris has none.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Morris →
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).