Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainOakview has some of the coldest winter nights among Canadian towns
July afternoons average 24.9°C. Counting rain and snow together, it is drier than 76% of Canadian towns. Winter and summer sit 47°C apart. An umbrella or a shovel earns its place on about 73 days a year with 1 mm or more.
Borrowed figures: Oakview has no normals station, so these come from Brandon, 32 km south.
A year in Oakview at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Oakview’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba beside it.
What a year in Oakview feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
Frost on 205 days, 20°C on 103
The frost season runs September to May, and January freezes nearly every night. On about 53 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 489 mm of rain and snow a year
June is the wettest month and February the driest.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
About 128 cm of snow a year
Expect snow from October to May, with about 29 cm in December, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Oakview
90% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
One degree below 18°C for one day makes one heating degree day; the year’s days are added together. In heating terms, homes need more heating than 97% of Canadian towns.
Living with Oakview’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Seedlings can go out once the average last frost, around 18 May, has passed; autumn’s first, near 18 September, ends a season of about 122 days.
Mild days and mild nights together (17–27°C by day, 8°C or more at night) belong to Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Frostbite weather, a wind chill under −20, turns up on about 87 days a year.
On some 31 days a year the humidex climbs past 30.
A normal year has no blizzard, flood or heat wave in it; Oakview’s hazards page looks at those.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Brandon
ECCC builds the Brandon normals from 2 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 32 km south |
| Station altitude | 409 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −43.2°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 37.9°C |
| Average wind | 15.2 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Elkhorn, 87 km |
How Oakview 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
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Oakview’s would only repeat its figures. Distances here run 39–47 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Oakview.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oakview Brandon | 24.9°C | −21.9°C | 489 mm |
| Hamiota 39 km · Elkhorn | 25.4°C 0.5°C warmer | −19.6°C 2.3°C milder | 517 mm |
| Harrison Park 39 km · Dauphin | 25.1°C about the same | −20.9°C 1.0°C milder | 462 mm |
Oakview 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 | −11.4°C | −21.9°C | −16.7°C | 18 mm | 25 cm |
| February | −8.5°C | −19.7°C | −14.1°C | 14 mm | 17 cm |
| March | −1.6°C | −12.5°C | −7.0°C | 24 mm | 19 cm |
| April | 9.6°C | −3.3°C | 3.1°C | 27 mm | 8 cm |
| May | 17.4°C | 3.2°C | 10.3°C | 65 mm | 4 cm |
| June | 22.6°C | 9.7°C | 16.2°C | 98 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 24.9°C | 11.8°C | 18.4°C | 72 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.1°C | 10.2°C | 17.7°C | 56 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 19.5°C | 4.9°C | 12.2°C | 43 mm | under 1 cm |
| October | 10.1°C | −2.2°C | 4.0°C | 32 mm | 6 cm |
| November | −0.3°C | −10.3°C | −5.3°C | 20 mm | 21 cm |
| December | −8.6°C | −18.5°C | −13.6°C | 22 mm | 29 cm |
| Year | 8.2°C | −4.0°C | 2.1°C | 489 mm | 128 cm |
A February here can run warm or cold, its average moving by about 4.2°C; the steadiest month is July
March has the widest record range, −38.4°C in 2003 to 22.6°C in 2012; the tick on each bar is the month’s normal.
Where Oakview’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the Canadian Climate Normals, 1991–2020, at Brandon (the closest location with all twelve months of temperatures).
- Comparisons: Canada’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ (no city totals, no reserves), each through its own nearest location.
- Not on this page: hours of sunshine, missing from the 1991–2020 normals, and a height correction: the town has no elevation on file.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Oakview’s climate
How warm does Oakview get in summer?
Peak warmth comes in August, at about 25.1°C by mid-afternoon.
How cold does Oakview get in winter?
Lows sink to −21.9°C on an average January night.
How much rain and snow does Oakview get?
Count on roughly 489 mm a year, heaviest in June (98 mm) and lightest in February (14 mm).
How long does snow stay on the ground?
In a normal winter there are about 138 days with at least 1 cm of snow lying.
Are these figures for Oakview itself?
No: Oakview has no normals location, so the figures come from Brandon, the nearest with 1991–2020 normals.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Oakview →
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).