Photo: Umbra Lab, Inc. · CC BY 4.0Midwinter lows in St. Clements sink below those of 95% of Canadian towns
High summer brings afternoon highs near 25.8°C. Its yearly rain and snow fall short of 72% of Canadian towns. Precipitation peaks in July and eases off in February. Plan for rain or snow on about 80 days a year, the days with 1 mm or more.
Borrowed figures: St. Clements has no normals station, so these come from Winnipeg Richardson (Airport), 38 km south-west.
A year in St. Clements at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about St. Clements’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba beside it.
What a year in St. Clements feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
Frost on 193 days, 20°C on 110
From September to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. Some 52 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
Rain and melted snow: about 519 mm a year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
About 126 cm of snow a year
The snow season runs October to May; December brings the most, about 27 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in St. Clements
91% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Think of it as a year’s worth of daily shortfalls below 18°C, added up. In heating terms, homes need more heating than 89% of Canadian towns.
Living with St. Clements’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
About 122 days a year pass without frost, from an average last frost of 23 May to a first of 22 September.
The outdoor season by the averages is Jun, Jul and Aug, with highs of 17–27°C and lows of 8°C or more.
Parks & trails →The wind chill passes −20 on about 86 days in a normal year.
Roughly 37 days a year feel hotter than 30 once humidity is counted.
Ice storms, floods and heat waves are risks, not averages: they are on St. Clements’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Winnipeg Richardson (Airport)
ECCC builds the Winnipeg Richardson (Airport) normals from 4 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 38 km south-west |
| Station altitude | 239 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −41.8°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 37.8°C |
| Average wind | 17.5 km/h on average, most often from the south |
| Next-nearest location | Gimli, 54 km |
How St. Clements 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
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on St. Clements’s own would show the same figures). The nearest places to St. Clements with figures are 16–39 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Clements Winnipeg Richardson (Airport) | 25.8°C | −21.2°C | 519 mm |
| Brokenhead 16 km · Pinawa | 25.2°C 0.6°C cooler | −21.7°C 0.5°C colder | 571 mm |
| Dunnottar 33 km · Gimli | 25.3°C 0.5°C cooler | −22.7°C 1.5°C colder | 517 mm |
St. Clements 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 | −21.2°C | −16.3°C | 18 mm | 25 cm |
| February | −8.8°C | −19.3°C | −14.1°C | 13 mm | 12 cm |
| March | −0.9°C | −11.2°C | −6.1°C | 26 mm | 19 cm |
| April | 10.0°C | −2.5°C | 3.8°C | 33 mm | 14 cm |
| May | 18.1°C | 4.2°C | 11.1°C | 70 mm | 4 cm |
| June | 23.3°C | 10.9°C | 17.1°C | 74 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.8°C | 13.2°C | 19.5°C | 77 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.4°C | 11.9°C | 18.7°C | 74 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 19.6°C | 6.9°C | 13.3°C | 53 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 10.4°C | −0.2°C | 5.1°C | 38 mm | 4 cm |
| November | 0.1°C | −8.8°C | −4.4°C | 25 mm | 21 cm |
| December | −8.2°C | −17.3°C | −12.7°C | 19 mm | 27 cm |
| Year | 8.6°C | −2.8°C | 2.9°C | 519 mm | 126 cm |
A March here can run from −37.4°C to 23.7°C
December is the least predictable month: about two years in three its average lands within 4.1°C of the normal, −12.7°C. July is the steadiest, within 1.4°C.
Where St. Clements’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals, Winnipeg Richardson (Airport), 1991–2020.
- 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 St. Clements’s climate
How warm does St. Clements get in summer?
A normal July afternoon tops out at about 25.8°C, the year’s high point.
How cold does St. Clements get in winter?
Deep winter means January, when nights average −21.2°C.
How much rain and snow does St. Clements get?
About 519 mm a year, rain and melted snow together. July is the wettest month (77 mm) and February the driest (13 mm).
Are these figures for St. Clements itself?
Only indirectly: the readings are made at Winnipeg Richardson (Airport), outside St. Clements.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for St. Clements →
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).