Photo: Squelle · Public domainFew Canadian towns have cooler summers than Pennfield
In January the night’s low is typically −9.5°C. Counting rain and snow together, it is wetter than 83% of Canadian towns. Some 30°C separates winter nights from summer afternoons. Windshields need scraping on about 135 mornings a year, the days the air reaches 0°C or below.
Pennfield has no ECCC normals station of its own: every figure here comes from Point Lepreau, 21 km east.
A year in Pennfield at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Pennfield’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in New Brunswick beside it.
What a year in Pennfield feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
135 frost days and 45 days above 20°C a year
Frost comes from October to May; in January almost every night freezes.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
About 1,125 mm of rain and snow a year
October is the wettest month and August the driest. On about 109 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
215 cm of snow in a typical year
Snow falls from November to April, most of all in January (about 60 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snowfall: Saint John, 70 km away (Point Lepreau records no complete year of it).
Heating a home in Pennfield
84% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
Every day colder than 18°C on average adds its gap in degrees to the year’s heating total. Over a year, a home here needs less heating than 66% of Canadian towns.
Living with Pennfield’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Count on about 165 frost-free days: the last frost averages 4 May, the first 17 October.
Warm afternoons without cold nights, 17–27°C and 8°C or more, mark Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →The wind chill passes −20 on about 21 days in a normal year.
Humid heat, a humidex over 30, comes on about 4 days a year.
Thirty-year normals hide the storms and the extremes: the hazards page has Pennfield’s risks.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Point Lepreau
Every temperature, frost, snow and degree-day figure on this page is the 1991–2020 normal ECCC publishes for Point Lepreau.
| Distance from the town | 21 km east |
| Station altitude | 13 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Saint John, 70 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −26.6°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 31.6°C |
| Average wind | 12.0 km/h on average, most often from the north-west |
| Next-nearest location | Grand Manan, 43 km |
How Pennfield compares
Against the 2,611 Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, each read from its own normals location; the dots are the other locations those towns use in New Brunswick.
Nearby towns’ climate
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Pennfield’s would only repeat its figures. Pennfield has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 26–48 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennfield Point Lepreau | 19.9°C | −9.5°C | 1,125 mm |
| Saint Andrews 26 km · St. Stephen | 25.7°C 5.8°C warmer | −13.6°C 4.1°C colder | 1,125 mm |
| Grand Manan 43 km · Grand Manan | 22.8°C 2.9°C warmer | −9.2°C about the same | 1,125 mm |
Pennfield weather by month
Average daily high and low, mean temperature, rain and snow (as water) and snowfall by month, 1991–2020.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −0.5°C | −9.5°C | −5.0°C | 82 mm | 60 cm |
| February | 0.3°C | −8.7°C | −4.2°C | 74 mm | 46 cm |
| March | 3.6°C | −4.4°C | −0.4°C | 94 mm | 37 cm |
| April | 8.4°C | 0.6°C | 4.5°C | 100 mm | 16 cm |
| May | 13.1°C | 5.0°C | 9.1°C | 96 mm | 1 cm |
| June | 17.3°C | 9.1°C | 13.2°C | 109 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 19.9°C | 12.0°C | 15.9°C | 76 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 20.7°C | 12.4°C | 16.6°C | 65 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 18.1°C | 9.9°C | 14.0°C | 99 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 13.2°C | 5.4°C | 9.3°C | 120 mm | 1 cm |
| November | 8.2°C | 0.5°C | 4.3°C | 103 mm | 13 cm |
| December | 2.9°C | −5.2°C | −1.1°C | 108 mm | 42 cm |
| Year | 10.4°C | 2.3°C | 6.4°C | 1,125 mm | 215 cm |
January strays furthest from its normal year to year, by 2.3°C; August the least
The thirty-year records stretch furthest in December: a low of −25.4°C in 1993 and a high of 18.8°C in 2013.
Where Pennfield’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals, Point Lepreau, 1991–2020.
- Other locations: where a location publishes no full year of precipitation or snowfall, the nearest one that does supplies it, named beside those figures.
- 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 (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 Pennfield’s climate
How warm does Pennfield get in summer?
The warmest month is August, when afternoons average 20.7°C.
How cold does Pennfield get in winter?
Deep winter means January, when nights average −9.5°C.
How much rain and snow does Pennfield get?
About 1,125 mm a year, rain and melted snow together. October is the wettest month (120 mm) and August the driest (65 mm).
Are these figures for Pennfield itself?
Not as such: Point Lepreau is the nearest normals location, and Pennfield has none.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Pennfield →
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).