Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Pinawa has some of the coldest winter nights among Canadian towns
July afternoons average 25.2°C. Counting rain and snow together, it is drier than 68% of Canadian towns. Winter and summer sit 47°C apart. Wet days, with 1 mm of rain or snow or more, come about 88 times a year.
Measured at Pinawa, 13 km west: ECCC’s normals for 1991–2020.
A year in Pinawa at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Pinawa’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba beside it.
What a year in Pinawa feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
Frost on 194 days, 20°C on 98
Frost comes from September to May; in January almost every night freezes. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 54 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
571 mm of precipitation in a typical year
June brings the most rain and snow; February, the least. 4th wettest of 190 towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
About 121 cm of snow a year
Snow falls from October to May, most of all in December (about 29 cm). 184th snowiest of 188 towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snowfall: Indian Bay, 77 km away (Pinawa records no complete year of it).
Heating a home in Pinawa
90% 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. Over a year, a home here needs more heating than 96% of Canadian towns.
Living with Pinawa’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Highs of 17–27°C with nights of 8°C or more come in Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →A wind chill below −20 is part of about 70 days a year here.
Summer brings about 28 days when the humidex passes 30.
Thirty years of averages say little about one bad storm; Pinawa’s hazards page does.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Pinawa
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for Pinawa are 2 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 13 km west |
| Station altitude | 267 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Indian Bay, 77 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −43.9°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.4°C |
| Average wind | 8.7 km/h on average, most often from the south |
| Next-nearest location | Indian Bay, 77 km |
How Pinawa 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
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Pinawa’s own would show the same figures). No closer places have figures: these lie 50–73 km from Pinawa.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pinawa | 25.2°C | −21.7°C | 571 mm |
| Division No. 1, Unorganized 50 km · Indian Bay | 25.1°C about the same | −22.1°C about the same | 643 mm |
| St. Clements 68 km · Winnipeg Richardson (Airport) | 25.8°C 0.6°C warmer | −21.2°C 0.5°C milder | 519 mm |
Pinawa weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −10.7°C | −21.7°C | −16.2°C | 30 mm | 25 cm |
| February | −7.9°C | −20.7°C | −14.3°C | 14 mm | 16 cm |
| March | 0.1°C | −12.5°C | −6.2°C | 28 mm | 12 cm |
| April | 9.4°C | −3.5°C | 3.0°C | 30 mm | 10 cm |
| May | 16.6°C | 3.6°C | 10.1°C | 71 mm | 2 cm |
| June | 22.1°C | 10.0°C | 16.1°C | 99 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.2°C | 12.8°C | 19.0°C | 83 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.2°C | 11.6°C | 17.9°C | 67 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 18.8°C | 7.0°C | 12.9°C | 63 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 9.9°C | 0.5°C | 5.3°C | 39 mm | 6 cm |
| November | 0.0°C | −8.1°C | −4.1°C | 24 mm | 22 cm |
| December | −7.8°C | −17.0°C | −12.4°C | 25 mm | 29 cm |
| Year | 8.3°C | −3.2°C | 2.6°C | 571 mm | 121 cm |
A February here can run warm or cold, its average moving by about 4.0°C; the steadiest month is July
March has the widest record range, −40.5°C in 2003 to 24.6°C in 2012; the tick on each bar is the month’s normal.
Where Pinawa’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the Canadian Climate Normals, 1991–2020, at Pinawa (the closest location with all twelve months of temperatures).
- Other locations: where a location publishes no full year of precipitation or snowfall, the nearest one that does supplies it, named beside those figures.
- 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: 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 Pinawa’s climate
How warm does Pinawa get in summer?
Expect highs near 25.2°C in July, the hottest month on average.
How cold does Pinawa get in winter?
A typical January night falls to −21.7°C, the year’s low point.
How much rain and snow does Pinawa get?
Around 571 mm a year in all, from 99 mm in June down to 14 mm in February.
Are these figures for Pinawa itself?
Yes: ECCC’s normals station is inside Pinawa itself.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Pinawa →
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).