Photo: Jasonbook99 · CC BY-SA 4.0Nights turn raw in Ste. Rose each January, colder than in 92% of Canadian towns
In July the day’s top temperature is typically 25.1°C. Precipitation follows the seasons: June brings about 7.2 times as much as February. It is a dry place: less rain and snow fall here than on 78% of Canadian towns. The furnace earns its keep from October to April, the months that average under 10°C.
The nearest ECCC normals location to Ste. Rose is Dauphin, 38 km west, and every figure on this page is its.
A year in Ste. Rose at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Ste. Rose’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba beside it.
What a year in Ste. Rose feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
Frost on 201 days, 20°C on 103
Frost comes from September to May; in January almost every night freezes. On about 54 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 462 mm of rain and snow a year
186th wettest of 190 towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Heating a home in Ste. Rose
90% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Measured against 18°C: each day’s shortfall in mean temperature, added over twelve months. By this count, homes here need more heating than 97% of Canadian towns.
Living with Ste. Rose’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Frost usually lets go around 21 May and returns near 20 September, about 121 days apart.
Plan time outside for Jun, Jul and Aug: highs of 17–27°C and nights no colder than 8°C.
Parks & trails →On some 83 days a year the wind chill drops past −20; mitts and a scarf earn their place.
Plan shade and water for about 30 days a year above 30 on the humidex.
A normal year has no blizzard, flood or heat wave in it; Ste. Rose’s hazards page looks at those.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Dauphin
ECCC builds the Dauphin normals from 3 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 38 km west |
| Station altitude | 305 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | No location within 100 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −41.4°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 39.0°C |
| Average wind | 14.8 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Roblin, 129 km |
How Ste. Rose 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 Ste. Rose’s own would show the same figures). Distances here run 66–78 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Ste. Rose.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ste. Rose Dauphin | 25.1°C | −20.9°C | 462 mm |
| Rosedale 66 km · Brandon | 24.9°C about the same | −21.9°C 1.0°C colder | 489 mm |
| West Interlake 73 km · Hodgson | 25.2°C about the same | −24.3°C 3.4°C colder | 602 mm |
Ste. Rose weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean and precipitation.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −10.7°C | −20.9°C | −15.8°C | 17 mm |
| February | −8.0°C | −19.1°C | −13.6°C | 12 mm |
| March | −0.9°C | −12.2°C | −6.5°C | 25 mm |
| April | 9.3°C | −3.6°C | 2.9°C | 26 mm |
| May | 17.2°C | 3.0°C | 10.2°C | 51 mm |
| June | 22.3°C | 9.8°C | 16.1°C | 87 mm |
| July | 25.1°C | 12.4°C | 18.8°C | 71 mm |
| August | 24.6°C | 10.8°C | 17.8°C | 55 mm |
| September | 18.9°C | 5.7°C | 12.3°C | 53 mm |
| October | 9.8°C | −1.2°C | 4.3°C | 31 mm |
| November | −0.4°C | −9.6°C | −5.0°C | 18 mm |
| December | −8.0°C | −17.7°C | −12.9°C | 17 mm |
| Year | 8.3°C | −3.5°C | 2.4°C | 462 mm |
March: −39.0°C at its coldest, 24.2°C at its warmest
From one year to the next, December’s average typically shifts by 4.4°C around its normal of −12.9°C, the widest of any month, while July’s shifts by 1.3°C.
Where Ste. Rose’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the Canadian Climate Normals, 1991–2020, at Dauphin (the closest location with all twelve months of temperatures).
- Comparisons: the towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ across Canada, each on its nearest normals location, without the city totals or the reserves.
- Not on this page: a snowfall figure (none within 100 km), sunshine (none for 1991–2020) and 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 Ste. Rose’s climate
How warm does Ste. Rose get in summer?
Peak warmth comes in July, at about 25.1°C by mid-afternoon.
How cold does Ste. Rose get in winter?
On a normal January night the air drops to −20.9°C, the coldest of the year.
How much rain and snow does Ste. Rose get?
The yearly total is about 462 mm. June gets 87 mm, the most of any month; February gets 12 mm, the least.
Are these figures for Ste. Rose itself?
They come from Dauphin, which ECCC uses as the nearest normals location for Ste. Rose.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Ste. Rose →
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).