Photo: Quincylvania · CC0Bishop's Falls is among the frostiest of Canadian towns
July afternoons average 24.1°C. Precipitation is plentiful here, more than falls on 92% of Canadian towns. No month is much wetter than another: December, the wettest, gets little more than June, the driest. Warm coats and heating bills mark the months from October to May, when means dip under 10°C.
Bishop's Falls has no ECCC normals station of its own: every figure here comes from Badger, 43 km west.
A year in Bishop's Falls at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Bishop's Falls’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Newfoundland and Labrador beside it.
What a year in Bishop's Falls feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on about 208 days a year
From September to June frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 22 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Rain and melted snow: about 1,247 mm a year
On about 162 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Badger publishes no full year of precipitation or snowfall, so these figures, and the snow below, come from Gander, 67 km away.
Snowfall: about 443 cm in a normal year
Expect snow from October to June, with about 97 cm in January, the snowiest month. 2nd snowiest of 31 towns of 2,500+ in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Living with Bishop's Falls’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Afternoons of 17–27°C and nights of at least 8°C arrive in Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Winter brings about 32 days with a wind chill below −20.
The air feels heavier than 30 on the humidex for about 19 days a year.
Averages smooth over blizzards, ice storms, floods and heat waves; Bishop's Falls’s hazards page covers the risks.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Badger
The page’s figures are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Badger, one of its 450 normals locations.
| Distance from the town | 43 km west |
| Station altitude | 103 m |
| Completeness | at least 15 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Gander, 67 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −37.8°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 34.7°C |
| Average wind | 8.8 km/h on average, most often from the south-west |
| Next-nearest location | Gander, 67 km |
How Bishop's Falls compares
Compared with 2,611 towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more across Canada; the dots mark the other normals locations in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Nearby towns’ climate
Places around Bishop's Falls whose figures come from another normals location. No closer places have figures: these lie 41–69 km from Bishop's Falls.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop's Falls Badger | 24.1°C | −13.9°C | 1,247 mm |
| Lewisporte 41 km · Gander | 21.8°C 2.3°C cooler | −10.4°C 3.5°C milder | 1,247 mm |
| Springdale 69 km · Middle Arm | 21.5°C 2.6°C cooler | −12.5°C 1.4°C milder | 1,215 mm |
Bishop's Falls 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 | −2.2°C | −13.9°C | −8.0°C | 103 mm | 97 cm |
| February | −2.0°C | −15.0°C | −8.5°C | 91 mm | 81 cm |
| March | 1.2°C | −11.6°C | −5.2°C | 105 mm | 86 cm |
| April | 6.7°C | −4.5°C | 1.2°C | 92 mm | 46 cm |
| May | 13.1°C | 0.0°C | 6.7°C | 94 mm | 11 cm |
| June | 18.8°C | 5.0°C | 11.9°C | 89 mm | 2 cm |
| July | 24.1°C | 9.7°C | 16.9°C | 105 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 23.1°C | 8.9°C | 16.0°C | 102 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 18.2°C | 4.2°C | 11.2°C | 115 mm | under 1 cm |
| October | 11.6°C | 0.4°C | 6.0°C | 120 mm | 12 cm |
| November | 5.6°C | −3.4°C | 1.1°C | 110 mm | 30 cm |
| December | 0.7°C | −7.9°C | −3.6°C | 121 mm | 80 cm |
| Year | 9.9°C | −2.3°C | 3.8°C | 1,247 mm | 443 cm |
A March here can run from −37.8°C to 15.3°C
March is the least predictable month: about two years in three its average lands within 2.8°C of the normal, −5.2°C. November is the steadiest, within 1.2°C.
Where Bishop's Falls’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: 1991–2020 normals for Badger from ECCC’s climate data site, the nearest location with every month of temperature.
- Other locations: precipitation and snowfall come from the nearest location that publishes all twelve months of them, as named above.
- 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: a sunshine figure (ECCC published none for 1991–2020) and any lapse-rate correction for height, as the town has no elevation here.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Bishop's Falls’s climate
How warm does Bishop's Falls get in summer?
Peak warmth comes in July, at about 24.1°C by mid-afternoon.
How cold does Bishop's Falls get in winter?
A typical February night falls to −15.0°C, the year’s low point.
How much rain and snow does Bishop's Falls get?
Count on roughly 1,247 mm a year, heaviest in December (121 mm) and lightest in June (89 mm).
Are these figures for Bishop's Falls itself?
They are borrowed from Badger, the nearest place to Bishop's Falls where ECCC publishes 1991–2020 normals.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Bishop's Falls →
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).