Photo: s.yume from Calgary, Canada · CC BY 2.0Midwinter lows in Winkler sink below those of 85% of Canadian towns
Sunny July days climb to about 25.6°C. Some 44°C separates winter nights from summer afternoons. Its yearly rain and snow fall short of 69% of Canadian towns. Ice scrapers and block heaters earn their keep on roughly 182 days a year at 0°C or below.
Winkler has no ECCC normals station of its own: every figure here comes from Morden, 9.6 km west.
A year in Winkler at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Winkler’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba beside it.
What a year in Winkler feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on 182 days, 20°C on 111
From September to May frost is routine, and in December it comes on almost every night. On about 39 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 528 mm of rain and snow a year
The most falls in June, the least in February. About 74 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
About 137 cm of snow a year
From October to May snow is likely; December is the peak, at about 34 cm. 9th snowiest of 187 towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Snowfall: Cypress River, 92 km away (Morden records no complete year of it).
Heating a home in Winkler
92% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
A day averaging 10 degrees under 18°C adds 10 to the total; warm days add nothing. Homes here need more heating than 82% of Canadian towns.
Living with Winkler’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
A normal year gives the garden about 135 frost-free days, roughly 15 May to 28 September.
Warm afternoons without cold nights, 17–27°C and 8°C or more, mark Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Plan for about 69 days a year with a wind chill below −20.
On some 37 days a year the humidex climbs past 30.
Storms, floods and heat waves sit outside these normals; Winkler’s hazards page covers them.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Morden
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for Morden are 2 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 9.6 km west |
| Station altitude | 298 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Cypress River, 92 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −42.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 39.1°C |
| Average wind | 12.7 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Emerson, 58 km |
How Winkler 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
Places around Winkler whose figures come from another normals location. No closer place has figures: this one lies 30 km from Winkler.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winkler Morden | 25.6°C | −18.5°C | 528 mm |
| Altona 30 km · Emerson | 26.0°C about the same | −20.4°C 1.9°C colder | 543 mm |
Winkler 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 | −9.5°C | −18.5°C | −14.0°C | 17 mm | 23 cm |
| February | −7.2°C | −16.4°C | −11.8°C | 16 mm | 18 cm |
| March | 0.0°C | −9.0°C | −4.5°C | 20 mm | 16 cm |
| April | 10.0°C | −1.4°C | 4.3°C | 30 mm | 11 cm |
| May | 18.1°C | 5.5°C | 11.8°C | 76 mm | 6 cm |
| June | 23.2°C | 11.9°C | 17.6°C | 89 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.6°C | 14.3°C | 20.0°C | 73 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.4°C | 13.0°C | 19.2°C | 65 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.1°C | 8.0°C | 14.1°C | 54 mm | under 1 cm |
| October | 10.9°C | 1.1°C | 6.0°C | 39 mm | 8 cm |
| November | 0.7°C | −7.5°C | −3.4°C | 27 mm | 22 cm |
| December | −6.7°C | −14.9°C | −10.8°C | 22 mm | 34 cm |
| Year | 9.2°C | −1.2°C | 4.0°C | 528 mm | 137 cm |
A March here can run from −32.8°C to 23.1°C
December is the least predictable month: about two years in three its average lands within 4.2°C of the normal, −10.8°C. August is the steadiest, within 1.4°C.
Where Winkler’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals, Morden: 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: every Canadian town and neighbourhood of 2,500 or more, each read from its own nearest location; city totals and reserves are left out.
- 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 Winkler’s climate
How warm does Winkler get in summer?
Of all twelve months, July has the warmest afternoons, about 25.6°C.
How cold does Winkler get in winter?
In January, the coldest month, the typical low is −18.5°C.
How much rain and snow does Winkler get?
A normal year brings 528 mm, snow included as water: June is wettest at 89 mm, February driest at 16 mm.
Are these figures for Winkler itself?
They are borrowed from Morden, the nearest place to Winkler where ECCC publishes 1991–2020 normals.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Winkler →
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).