Photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/rebfoto/ Emile Baddour · CC0Hardly any Canadian towns collect more precipitation than Holyrood: 1,748 mm a year
On a normal January night the air cools to about −8.7°C. Summers stay cool: July afternoons here are cooler than in 98% of Canadian towns. The gap between a January night and a July afternoon is 31°C. Ice scrapers and block heaters earn their keep on roughly 176 days a year at 0°C or below.
These are not Holyrood’s own readings: ECCC keeps no normals there, so the page uses Whitbourne, 30 km west.
A year in Holyrood at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Holyrood’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Newfoundland and Labrador beside it.
What a year in Holyrood feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
About 176 frosts and 52 warm days a year
From September to June frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
Rain and melted snow: about 1,748 mm a year
The most falls in January, the least in June. The wettest of 32 towns of 2,500+ in Newfoundland and Labrador. On about 182 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
About 321 cm of snow a year
Snow falls from November to April, most of all in January (about 91 cm). 23rd snowiest of 31 towns of 2,500+ in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Holyrood
82% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
Behind the figure: the degrees each day’s mean falls under 18°C, summed for the year.
Living with Holyrood’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Warm afternoons without cold nights, 17–27°C and 8°C or more, mark Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Averages smooth over blizzards, ice storms, floods and heat waves; Holyrood’s hazards page covers the risks.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Whitbourne
The page’s figures are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Whitbourne, one of its 450 normals locations.
| Distance from the town | 30 km west |
| Station altitude | 58 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −33.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 31.5°C |
| Next-nearest location | St. John's (West), 30 km |
How Holyrood 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 Newfoundland and Labrador.
Nearby towns’ climate
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Holyrood’s own would show the same figures). The nearest place to Holyrood with figures is 16 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holyrood Whitbourne | 21.1°C | −8.7°C | 1,748 mm |
| Conception Bay South 16 km · St. John's (West) | 21.3°C about the same | −7.2°C 1.5°C milder | 1,381 mm |
Holyrood 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 | 0.3°C | −8.7°C | −4.2°C | 192 mm | 91 cm |
| February | 0.1°C | −9.4°C | −4.7°C | 158 mm | 83 cm |
| March | 2.5°C | −6.3°C | −1.9°C | 146 mm | 49 cm |
| April | 7.3°C | −1.9°C | 2.7°C | 122 mm | 17 cm |
| May | 12.1°C | 1.7°C | 6.9°C | 108 mm | 1 cm |
| June | 16.6°C | 5.7°C | 11.2°C | 100 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 21.1°C | 10.5°C | 15.8°C | 131 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 21.3°C | 11.7°C | 16.5°C | 116 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 17.8°C | 8.2°C | 13.0°C | 152 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 12.0°C | 3.8°C | 7.9°C | 174 mm | 1 cm |
| November | 7.3°C | −0.5°C | 3.4°C | 171 mm | 13 cm |
| December | 2.8°C | −5.2°C | −1.2°C | 179 mm | 66 cm |
| Year | 10.1°C | 0.8°C | 5.5°C | 1,748 mm | 321 cm |
March has run from −30.0°C to 19.0°C in thirty years
The month to count on least is February: one year in three its average strays more than 2.4°C from −4.7°C. August moves least, typically by 0.9°C.
Where Holyrood’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals, Whitbourne, 1991–2020.
- 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 Holyrood’s climate
How warm does Holyrood get in summer?
Peak warmth comes in August, at about 21.3°C by mid-afternoon.
How cold does Holyrood get in winter?
A typical February night falls to −9.4°C, the year’s low point.
How much rain and snow does Holyrood get?
Measured as water, a year brings 1,748 mm: 192 mm in January, the wettest month, and 100 mm in June, the driest.
Are these figures for Holyrood itself?
Not directly: Holyrood has no ECCC normals of its own, and Whitbourne stands in for it.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Holyrood →
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).