Photo: Paul Vincent Dimaranan · CC BY 3.0More rain and snow fall on Carling than on 79% of Canadian towns: 1,062 mm a year
The depth of winter brings overnight lows near −15.3°C. The seasons are far apart: from a winter night to a summer afternoon the average spans 41°C. Winter nights are cold: in January they are colder than in 72% of Canadian towns. Wet days, with 1 mm of rain or snow or more, come about 141 times a year.
Carling has no ECCC normals station nearby: the figures come from Muskoka, 88 km south-east, so read them as the wider area’s climate.
A year in Carling at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Carling’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Carling feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
About 175 frosts and 109 warm days 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
Heating a home in Carling
90% 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.
Living with Carling’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 →Storms, floods and heat waves sit outside these normals; Carling’s hazards page covers them.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Muskoka
ECCC builds the Muskoka normals from 3 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 88 km south-east |
| Station altitude | 282 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | No location within 100 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −40.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.2°C |
| Average wind | 10.7 km/h |
| Next-nearest location | Collingwood, 101 km |
How Carling 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 Carling’s would only repeat its figures. The nearest places to Carling with figures are 41–77 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carling Muskoka | 25.3°C | −15.3°C | 1,062 mm |
| Whitestone 41 km · North Bay | 24.3°C 1.0°C cooler | −17.3°C 2.0°C colder | 1,020 mm |
| Penetanguishene 74 km · Collingwood | 25.3°C about the same | −8.7°C 6.6°C milder | 1,062 mm |
Carling weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean and precipitation.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −4.6°C | −15.3°C | −10.0°C | 92 mm |
| February | −3.1°C | −15.1°C | −9.1°C | 56 mm |
| March | 2.5°C | −9.0°C | −3.3°C | 72 mm |
| April | 10.4°C | −1.6°C | 4.4°C | 79 mm |
| May | 18.4°C | 4.7°C | 11.5°C | 93 mm |
| June | 23.1°C | 10.1°C | 16.7°C | 86 mm |
| July | 25.3°C | 12.8°C | 19.1°C | 100 mm |
| August | 24.4°C | 11.8°C | 18.1°C | 82 mm |
| September | 20.1°C | 7.5°C | 13.8°C | 102 mm |
| October | 12.5°C | 2.2°C | 7.4°C | 111 mm |
| November | 5.1°C | −3.4°C | 0.9°C | 103 mm |
| December | −1.0°C | −9.7°C | −5.4°C | 87 mm |
| Year | 11.1°C | −0.4°C | 5.3°C | 1,062 mm |
March has run from −31.9°C to 26.7°C in thirty years
Year to year, January varies most (a standard deviation of 3.3°C around −10.0°C) and June least (1.2°C).
Where Carling’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals, Muskoka: the nearest of its locations with every month’s temperatures.
- Comparisons: the 2,500-plus towns and neighbourhoods of Canada, each read from its closest normals location; whole cities and reserves aren’t counted.
- Not on this page: snow, with no complete snowfall normals within 100 km, sunshine, which ECCC published for no location, and any height adjustment.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Carling’s climate
How warm does Carling get in summer?
Of all twelve months, July has the warmest afternoons, about 25.3°C.
How cold does Carling get in winter?
Winter bottoms out in January, with lows near −15.3°C.
How much rain and snow does Carling get?
The year adds up to 1,062 mm. October is the peak month (111 mm) and February the low one (56 mm).
Are these figures for Carling itself?
They are the figures for Muskoka, which read better as the region’s climate than Carling’s own.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Carling →
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).