Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Armour sits near the top of Canadian towns for snow: about 312 cm a year
On a normal January night the air cools to about −15.3°C. It is a wet place: more rain and snow fall here than on 79% of Canadian towns. Some 41°C separates winter nights from summer afternoons. An umbrella or a shovel earns its place on about 141 days a year with 1 mm or more.
Armour has no ECCC normals station nearby: the figures come from Muskoka, 70 km south, so read them as the wider area’s climate.
A year in Armour at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Armour’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Armour feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
175 frost days and 109 days above 20°C a year
The frost season runs September to May, and January freezes nearly every night. Some 27 nights a year drop under −20°C.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
Rain and melted snow: about 1,062 mm a year
October is the wettest month and February the driest.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
312 cm of snow in a typical year
Expect snow from October to May, with about 71 cm in December, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
ECCC’s Muskoka normals leave snowfall out; the figures here come from North Bay, 85 km away.
Heating a home in Armour
90% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
One degree below 18°C for one day makes one heating degree day; the year’s days are added together.
Living with Armour’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Afternoons of 17–27°C and nights of at least 8°C arrive in Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Bad-weather days, from blizzards to floods, get their own page for Armour: the hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Muskoka
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for Muskoka are 3 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 70 km south |
| Station altitude | 282 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | North Bay, 85 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −40.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.2°C |
| Average wind | 10.7 km/h |
| Next-nearest location | North Bay, 85 km |
How Armour compares
Placed among 2,611 Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+, each on its nearest normals location; each dot is another location used in Ontario.
Nearby towns’ climate
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Armour’s would only repeat its figures. No closer place has figures: this one lies 15 km from Armour.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armour Muskoka | 25.3°C | −15.3°C | 1,062 mm |
| Strong 15 km · North Bay | 24.3°C 1.0°C cooler | −17.3°C 2.0°C colder | 1,020 mm |
Armour 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 | −4.6°C | −15.3°C | −10.0°C | 92 mm | 70 cm |
| February | −3.1°C | −15.1°C | −9.1°C | 56 mm | 63 cm |
| March | 2.5°C | −9.0°C | −3.3°C | 72 mm | 39 cm |
| April | 10.4°C | −1.6°C | 4.4°C | 79 mm | 18 cm |
| May | 18.4°C | 4.7°C | 11.5°C | 93 mm | 4 cm |
| June | 23.1°C | 10.1°C | 16.7°C | 86 mm | under 1 cm |
| July | 25.3°C | 12.8°C | 19.1°C | 100 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.4°C | 11.8°C | 18.1°C | 82 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.1°C | 7.5°C | 13.8°C | 102 mm | under 1 cm |
| October | 12.5°C | 2.2°C | 7.4°C | 111 mm | 9 cm |
| November | 5.1°C | −3.4°C | 0.9°C | 103 mm | 38 cm |
| December | −1.0°C | −9.7°C | −5.4°C | 87 mm | 71 cm |
| Year | 11.1°C | −0.4°C | 5.3°C | 1,062 mm | 312 cm |
The month with the widest range: March, −31.9°C to 26.7°C
Bars run from each month’s record low to its record high over 1991–2020; January is the month whose average wanders most from year to year (±3.3°C around −10.0°C), June the one that wanders least (±1.2°C).
Where Armour’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals for Muskoka, the nearest location with a full year of temperatures.
- Other locations: ECCC blanks a month that fails its completeness rule, so the precipitation or snowfall here comes from the next location with all twelve months.
- Comparisons: all Canadian places of 2,500 or more except city totals and reserves, each read the same way.
- 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 Armour’s climate
How warm does Armour get in summer?
Highs reach 25.3°C on an average July day; no month is warmer.
How cold does Armour get in winter?
Expect nights around −15.3°C in January; no month is colder.
How much rain and snow does Armour get?
Count on roughly 1,062 mm a year, heaviest in October (111 mm) and lightest in February (56 mm).
Are these figures for Armour itself?
Not really: Muskoka, the closest location with normals, lies well away from Armour.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Armour →
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).