Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 2.5Barry's Bay has colder winter nights than 81% of Canadian towns
Expect July afternoons of about 25.7°C. Of all months, June brings the most precipitation and February the least. Homes need heating from October to April, the months averaging under 10°C.
The nearest ECCC normals location to Barry's Bay is Bancroft, 48 km south, and every figure on this page is its.
A year in Barry's Bay at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Barry's Bay’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Barry's Bay feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on 193 days, 20°C on 115
The frost season runs September to May, and January freezes nearly every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 34 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
About 932 mm of rain and snow a year
Some 132 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
ECCC’s Bancroft normals leave out precipitation and snow; both come from Petawawa here, 59 km away.
Snowfall: about 199 cm in a normal year
Snow falls from October to April, most of all in January (about 49 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Heating a home in Barry's Bay
89% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
The total grows by a degree for every degree a day’s mean sits under 18°C. A house here needs more heating than 62% of Canadian towns.
Living with Barry's Bay’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 Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Count on some 29 days a year when the wind makes it feel below −20.
About 36 days a year turn sultry, with the humidex past 30.
A typical year is calm by definition; Barry's Bay’s hazards page covers the exceptions.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Bancroft
Every temperature, frost, snow and degree-day figure on this page is the 1991–2020 normal ECCC publishes for Bancroft.
| Distance from the town | 48 km south |
| Station altitude | 331 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Petawawa, 59 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −38.9°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.5°C |
| Average wind | 6.1 km/h on average, most often from the north |
| Next-nearest location | Petawawa, 59 km |
How Barry's Bay compares
Compared with 2,611 towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more across Canada; the dots mark the other normals locations in Ontario.
Nearby towns’ climate
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Barry's Bay’s would only repeat its figures. The nearest place to Barry's Bay with figures is 19 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barry's Bay Bancroft | 25.7°C | −17.1°C | 932 mm |
| Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards 19 km · Petawawa | 26.3°C 0.6°C warmer | −17.9°C 0.8°C colder | 932 mm |
Barry's Bay 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 | −4.5°C | −17.1°C | −10.9°C | 68 mm | 49 cm |
| February | −2.1°C | −16.4°C | −9.3°C | 51 mm | 38 cm |
| March | 3.3°C | −10.4°C | −3.7°C | 58 mm | 27 cm |
| April | 10.5°C | −3.1°C | 3.7°C | 79 mm | 11 cm |
| May | 18.9°C | 3.3°C | 11.1°C | 85 mm | 1 cm |
| June | 23.1°C | 8.8°C | 16.0°C | 96 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.7°C | 11.0°C | 18.4°C | 89 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.5°C | 9.9°C | 17.3°C | 90 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.4°C | 5.9°C | 13.1°C | 83 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 12.5°C | 0.9°C | 6.7°C | 83 mm | 3 cm |
| November | 5.0°C | −4.9°C | 0.0°C | 77 mm | 25 cm |
| December | −1.6°C | −11.9°C | −6.9°C | 72 mm | 45 cm |
| Year | 11.3°C | −2.0°C | 4.6°C | 932 mm | 199 cm |
January strays furthest from its normal year to year, by 3.1°C; June the least
Over 1991–2020, March saw both −34.2°C (2003) and 27.1°C (2012), the widest span of any month.
Where Barry's Bay’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals, Bancroft: the nearest of its locations with every month’s temperatures.
- Other locations: a location missing months of precipitation or snow is filled from the nearest that has them all, never mixed month by month.
- Comparisons: Canada’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ (no city totals, no reserves), each through its own nearest location.
- Not on this page: sunshine, absent from every 1991–2020 location, and an altitude correction, for want of the town’s own elevation.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Barry's Bay’s climate
How warm does Barry's Bay get in summer?
On a normal day in July the thermometer climbs to 25.7°C, the warmest of the year.
How cold does Barry's Bay get in winter?
January nights average −17.1°C, the coldest of the year.
How much rain and snow does Barry's Bay get?
Measured as water, a year brings 932 mm: 96 mm in June, the wettest month, and 51 mm in February, the driest.
Are these figures for Barry's Bay itself?
They are the closest available: the normals for Bancroft, since Barry's Bay has none.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Barry's Bay →
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).