Few Canadian towns have cooler summers than Kippens
The coldest hours of a January night bottom out at −9.0°C on average. Counting rain and snow together, it is wetter than 93% of Canadian towns. The year swings widely: the coldest month’s nights and the warmest month’s afternoons are 31°C apart. For walks and days out, July and August bring highs of 20–21°C.
No ECCC station in Kippens has 1991–2020 normals; the page reads Stephenville, 5.8 km south-east, instead.
A year in Kippens at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Kippens’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Newfoundland and Labrador beside it.
What a year in Kippens feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on 157 days, 20°C on 50
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 1,316 mm of rain and snow a year
September brings the most rain and snow; April, the least. Some 174 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 386 cm in a normal year
Snow falls from October to May, most of all in January (about 107 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Kippens
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.
Living with Kippens’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
The frost-free stretch runs from about 15 May to about 23 October, some 161 days in a normal year.
Warm afternoons without cold nights, 17–27°C and 8°C or more, mark Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Bitter wind chill, under −20, comes on about 28 days a year.
A humidex above 30 marks about 4 days in a normal year.
A normal year has no blizzard, flood or heat wave in it; Kippens’s hazards page looks at those.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Stephenville
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for Stephenville are 2 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 5.8 km south-east |
| Station altitude | 25 m |
| Completeness | at least 25 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −28.8°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 30.7°C |
| Average wind | 18.8 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Corner Brook, 67 km |
How Kippens 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
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Kippens’s own would show the same figures). No closer place has figures: this one lies 62 km from Kippens.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kippens Stephenville | 20.3°C | −9.0°C | 1,316 mm |
| Humber Arm South 62 km · Corner Brook | 22.8°C 2.5°C warmer | −9.9°C 0.9°C colder | 1,293 mm |
Kippens weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −2.1°C | −9.0°C | −5.6°C | 121 mm | 107 cm |
| February | −2.5°C | −10.2°C | −6.4°C | 107 mm | 97 cm |
| March | 0.7°C | −7.3°C | −3.3°C | 89 mm | 55 cm |
| April | 6.0°C | −1.6°C | 2.2°C | 78 mm | 17 cm |
| May | 11.8°C | 3.0°C | 7.4°C | 100 mm | 3 cm |
| June | 16.6°C | 7.8°C | 12.2°C | 93 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 20.3°C | 12.6°C | 16.5°C | 115 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 21.1°C | 13.1°C | 17.1°C | 117 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 16.9°C | 9.1°C | 13.0°C | 131 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 11.3°C | 4.3°C | 7.8°C | 130 mm | 3 cm |
| November | 5.9°C | 0.0°C | 3.0°C | 119 mm | 24 cm |
| December | 1.0°C | −4.8°C | −1.9°C | 117 mm | 81 cm |
| Year | 8.9°C | 1.4°C | 5.2°C | 1,316 mm | 386 cm |
February strays furthest from its normal year to year, by 2.6°C; August the least
Records from 1991 to 2020: no month spans more than March, between −24.5°C (1997) and 19.7°C (1999).
Where Kippens’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s normals for Stephenville, 1991–2020, chosen as the nearest location with a full temperature record.
- 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 (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 Kippens’s climate
How warm does Kippens get in summer?
Expect highs near 21.1°C in August, the hottest month on average.
How cold does Kippens get in winter?
A typical February night falls to −10.2°C, the year’s low point.
How much rain and snow does Kippens get?
September is the wettest month at 131 mm and April the driest at 78 mm, for 1,316 mm over the year.
How long does snow stay on the ground?
Snow cover of 1 cm or more lasts about 128 days in a typical year.
Are these figures for Kippens itself?
Not quite: they come from Stephenville, the closest ECCC normals location to Kippens.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Kippens →
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).