Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainJanuary in Prairie Lakes bites harder than in 89% of Canadian towns
Sunny July days climb to about 25.9°C. Precipitation is light here, less than falls on 75% of Canadian towns. June is the wettest month, February the driest. Homes need heating from October to April, the months averaging under 10°C.
The nearest ECCC normals location to Prairie Lakes is Cypress River, 48 km north-east, and every figure on this page is its.
A year in Prairie Lakes at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Prairie Lakes’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba beside it.
What a year in Prairie Lakes feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
Frost on 194 days, 20°C on 111
Frost comes from September to May; in December almost every night freezes. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 46 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
Rain and melted snow: about 517 mm a year
On about 78 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
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 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 Prairie Lakes
91% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Degree days add up how far each day’s mean temperature falls below 18°C over a year. That means homes here need more heating than 83% of Canadian towns.
Living with Prairie Lakes’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 19 May, has passed; autumn’s first, near 21 September, ends a season of about 124 days.
For long days outdoors, Jun, Jul and Aug bring highs of 17–27°C and lows of 8°C or more.
Parks & trails →Extremes don’t show in averages: floods, wildfire smoke and ice storms are on Prairie Lakes’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Cypress River
ECCC builds the Cypress River normals from 2 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 48 km north-east |
| Station altitude | 374 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −41.2°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 38.2°C |
| Next-nearest location | Brandon, 63 km |
How Prairie Lakes 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
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Prairie Lakes’s would only repeat its figures. Distances here run 31–50 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Prairie Lakes.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie Lakes Cypress River | 25.9°C | −20.1°C | 517 mm |
| Oakland-Wawanesa 31 km · Brandon | 24.9°C 1.0°C cooler | −21.9°C 1.8°C colder | 489 mm |
| Boissevain 32 km · Melita | 25.6°C about the same | −19.9°C about the same | 422 mm |
Prairie Lakes weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −10.1°C | −20.1°C | −15.1°C | 20 mm | 23 cm |
| February | −7.4°C | −18.1°C | −12.8°C | 17 mm | 18 cm |
| March | 0.1°C | −10.4°C | −5.1°C | 21 mm | 16 cm |
| April | 10.5°C | −2.1°C | 4.2°C | 27 mm | 11 cm |
| May | 18.2°C | 4.6°C | 11.4°C | 70 mm | 6 cm |
| June | 23.2°C | 10.7°C | 17.0°C | 91 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.9°C | 13.1°C | 19.5°C | 75 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.7°C | 11.7°C | 18.7°C | 61 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.2°C | 7.0°C | 13.6°C | 45 mm | under 1 cm |
| October | 10.8°C | −0.1°C | 5.4°C | 38 mm | 8 cm |
| November | 0.4°C | −8.6°C | −4.1°C | 25 mm | 22 cm |
| December | −7.4°C | −16.5°C | −12.0°C | 27 mm | 34 cm |
| Year | 9.2°C | −2.4°C | 3.4°C | 517 mm | 137 cm |
From −36.0°C to 24.0°C: March’s coldest and warmest days since 1991
Year to year, February varies most (a standard deviation of 4.2°C around −12.8°C) and June least (1.3°C).
Where Prairie Lakes’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals for Cypress River, the nearest location with a full year of temperatures.
- 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: sunshine, absent from every 1991–2020 location, and an altitude correction, for want of the town’s own elevation.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Prairie Lakes’s climate
How warm does Prairie Lakes get in summer?
In July, the warmest month, the typical high is 25.9°C.
How cold does Prairie Lakes get in winter?
Midwinter means January, when a typical night reaches −20.1°C.
How much rain and snow does Prairie Lakes get?
Measured as water, a year brings 517 mm: 91 mm in June, the wettest month, and 17 mm in February, the driest.
Are these figures for Prairie Lakes itself?
They are the closest available: the normals for Cypress River, since Prairie Lakes has none.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Prairie Lakes →
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).