Photo: Words in the Wind · CC BY-SA 4.0Two Borders is drier than 94% of Canadian towns: 422 mm of rain and snow a year
The warmest part of a July day comes in at 25.6°C on average. Frost is common: about 194 nights a year drop below freezing, more than in 88% of Canadian towns. Temperatures cover 46°C across the year, low to high. Heating does most of its work from October to April, in months below 10°C on average.
ECCC publishes no normals for Two Borders itself; the figures are those of Melita, 22 km north-east.
A year in Two Borders at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Two Borders’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba beside it.
What a year in Two Borders feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
About 194 frosts and 111 warm days a year
Frost comes from September to May; in January 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
422 mm of precipitation in a typical year
June brings the most rain and snow; February, the least. 190th wettest of 190 towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba. Some 64 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
142 cm of snow in a typical year
From October to May snow is likely; December is the peak, at about 26 cm. 7th snowiest of 188 towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Melita publishes no full year of snowfall, so these figures come from Elkhorn, 84 km away.
Heating a home in Two Borders
91% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Every day colder than 18°C on average adds its gap in degrees to the year’s heating total. Homes here need more heating than 83% of Canadian towns.
Living with Two Borders’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
The frost-free stretch runs from about 19 May to about 22 September, some 125 days in a normal year.
Warm afternoons without cold nights, 17–27°C and 8°C or more, mark Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Wind chill falls below −20 on about 78 days a year: cover skin and dress in layers.
Humid summer days, the humidex above 30, number about 35 a year.
Thirty years of averages say little about one bad storm; Two Borders’s hazards page does.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Melita
Every temperature, frost, snow and degree-day figure on this page is the 1991–2020 normal ECCC publishes for Melita.
| Distance from the town | 22 km north-east |
| Station altitude | 446 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Elkhorn, 84 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −42.3°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 39.6°C |
| Average wind | 15.0 km/h on average, most often from the south |
| Next-nearest location | Elkhorn, 84 km |
How Two Borders 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 Two Borders’s own would show the same figures). Distances here run 55–78 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Two Borders.
Two Borders weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −9.5°C | −19.9°C | −14.8°C | 13 mm | 25 cm |
| February | −7.6°C | −18.6°C | −13.1°C | 11 mm | 17 cm |
| March | −0.6°C | −11.1°C | −5.9°C | 20 mm | 25 cm |
| April | 10.6°C | −2.1°C | 4.2°C | 22 mm | 13 cm |
| May | 18.1°C | 4.2°C | 11.2°C | 68 mm | 5 cm |
| June | 22.6°C | 10.4°C | 16.5°C | 82 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.6°C | 12.9°C | 19.3°C | 58 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.7°C | 11.2°C | 18.5°C | 48 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.1°C | 6.3°C | 13.2°C | 36 mm | 1 cm |
| October | 11.1°C | −1.0°C | 5.0°C | 31 mm | 8 cm |
| November | 0.8°C | −9.2°C | −4.2°C | 16 mm | 22 cm |
| December | −7.0°C | −16.7°C | −11.9°C | 16 mm | 26 cm |
| Year | 9.2°C | −2.8°C | 3.2°C | 422 mm | 142 cm |
From year to year, February moves by 4.5°C, more than any month, and July least
March has the widest record range, −35.4°C in 2014 to 21.8°C in 2012; the tick on each bar is the month’s normal.
Where Two Borders’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals, Melita: the nearest of its locations with every month’s temperatures.
- Other locations: a location missing months of precipitation or snow is filled from the nearest that has them all, never mixed month by month.
- Comparisons: Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of at least 2,500, each placed by its nearest location (city totals and reserves excluded).
- Not on this page: sunshine, not in ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals, and the effect of the town’s height, for which there is no figure.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Two Borders’s climate
How warm does Two Borders get in summer?
Summer peaks in August: a typical afternoon reaches 25.7°C.
How cold does Two Borders get in winter?
Overnight lows average −19.9°C in January, the coldest month.
How much rain and snow does Two Borders get?
422 mm a year counting snow as water. The wettest month is June (82 mm); the driest, February (11 mm).
Are these figures for Two Borders itself?
No, the station behind them is Melita, beyond Two Borders’s boundary.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Two Borders →
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).