Inkster Gardens has colder winter nights than 95% of Canadian towns
The warmest part of a July day comes in at 25.8°C on average. Counting rain and snow together, it is drier than 72% of Canadian towns. Expect the most rain and snow in July and the least in February. An umbrella or a shovel earns its place on about 80 days a year with 1 mm or more.
Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals at its Winnipeg Richardson (Airport) station, 4.2 km south-west.
A year in Inkster Gardens at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Inkster Gardens’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba beside it.
What a year in Inkster Gardens 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. On about 52 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
519 mm of precipitation in a typical year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
126 cm of snow in a typical year
From October to May snow is likely; December is the peak, at about 27 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Inkster Gardens
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. Homes here need more heating than 89% of Canadian towns.
Living with Inkster Gardens’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
A normal year gives the garden about 122 frost-free days, roughly 23 May to 22 September.
Mild days and mild nights together (17–27°C by day, 8°C or more at night) belong to Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →About 86 days a year bring a wind chill under −20, when bare skin chills fast.
Humid heat, a humidex over 30, comes on about 37 days a year.
Thirty-year normals hide the storms and the extremes: the hazards page has Inkster Gardens’s risks.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Winnipeg Richardson (Airport)
Winnipeg Richardson (Airport) is a composite: ECCC joins 4 stations’ readings to make its 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 4.2 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, 76 km |
How Inkster Gardens 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
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Inkster Gardens’s would only repeat its figures. Distances here run 42–48 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Inkster Gardens.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inkster Gardens Winnipeg Richardson (Airport) | 25.8°C | −21.2°C | 519 mm |
| Cartier 42 km · Portage Southport | 25.4°C about the same | −19.1°C 2.1°C milder | 493 mm |
| Brokenhead 42 km · Pinawa | 25.2°C 0.6°C cooler | −21.7°C 0.5°C colder | 571 mm |
| Teulon 48 km · Gimli | 25.3°C 0.5°C cooler | −22.7°C 1.5°C colder | 517 mm |
Inkster Gardens weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and 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 |
The month with the widest range: March, −37.4°C to 23.7°C
Two years in three, December’s average falls within 4.1°C of its normal of −12.7°C; July keeps to within 1.4°C.
Where Inkster Gardens’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals at Winnipeg Richardson (Airport), the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals.
- 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: sunshine (no 1991–2020 normals exist for it) and any altitude adjustment, since there is no elevation for the town itself.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Inkster Gardens’s climate
How warm does Inkster Gardens get in summer?
Afternoons average 25.8°C in July, the warmest time of year.
How cold does Inkster Gardens get in winter?
January nights average −21.2°C, the coldest of the year.
How much rain and snow does Inkster Gardens get?
A normal year brings 519 mm, snow included as water: July is wettest at 77 mm, February driest at 13 mm.
Are these figures for Inkster Gardens itself?
They are the normals for Winnipeg Richardson (Airport), measured just outside Inkster Gardens itself.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Inkster Gardens →
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