Weather without surprises: Centre Hastings keeps close to the norm for Canadian towns
July afternoons reach 26.5°C on a typical day and January nights drop to −11.2°C; 941 mm of rain and melted snow falls in a year. By frosts alone, it ranks gentler than 68% of Canadian towns. Rain or snow is most frequent in September and least in February. Picnics, hikes and garden evenings come into their own from June to September, with highs of 22–27°C.
No ECCC station in Centre Hastings has 1991–2020 normals; the page reads Trenton, 40 km south, instead.
A year in Centre Hastings at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Centre Hastings’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Centre Hastings feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
146 frost days and 124 days above 20°C a year
Frost comes from October to May; in January almost every night freezes. Some 9 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
941 mm of precipitation in a typical year
On about 116 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 155 cm in a normal year
Snow falls from November to April, most of all in January (about 44 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Centre Hastings
92% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Heating degree days total each day’s gap between its mean temperature and 18°C. In heating terms, homes need less heating than 70% of Canadian towns.
Living with Centre Hastings’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Between the last frost, near 1 May, and the first, near 10 October, lie about 161 frost-free days.
Mild days and mild nights together (17–27°C by day, 8°C or more at night) belong to Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Bitter wind chill, under −20, comes on about 28 days a year.
About 51 days a year feel above 30 on the humidex.
Severe weather is a separate story from the averages: see Centre Hastings’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Trenton
Every temperature, frost, snow and degree-day figure on this page is the 1991–2020 normal ECCC publishes for Trenton.
| Distance from the town | 40 km south |
| Station altitude | 86 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | Yes |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −35.1°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.6°C |
| Average wind | 12.7 km/h on average, most often from the south-west |
| Next-nearest location | Centreville, 43 km |
How Centre Hastings 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 Ontario.
Nearby towns’ climate
Places around Centre Hastings whose figures come from another normals location.
Centre Hastings 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 | −1.6°C | −11.2°C | −6.4°C | 78 mm | 44 cm |
| February | −0.7°C | −10.6°C | −5.7°C | 60 mm | 39 cm |
| March | 4.4°C | −5.5°C | −0.6°C | 64 mm | 22 cm |
| April | 11.6°C | 0.9°C | 6.3°C | 84 mm | 6 cm |
| May | 18.9°C | 7.3°C | 13.1°C | 81 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 23.9°C | 12.7°C | 18.3°C | 83 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 26.5°C | 15.4°C | 21.0°C | 75 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.6°C | 14.4°C | 20.0°C | 70 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 21.6°C | 10.1°C | 15.8°C | 92 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 14.2°C | 4.2°C | 9.2°C | 91 mm | 1 cm |
| November | 7.4°C | −1.5°C | 3.0°C | 84 mm | 10 cm |
| December | 1.4°C | −6.9°C | −2.8°C | 77 mm | 33 cm |
| Year | 12.8°C | 2.4°C | 7.6°C | 941 mm | 155 cm |
January varies most from one year to the next (3.0°C), June least
Over 1991–2020, March saw both −25.6°C (2003) and 25.4°C (1998), the widest span of any month.
Where Centre Hastings’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the Canadian Climate Normals, 1991–2020, at Trenton (the closest location with all twelve months of temperatures).
- Comparisons: every Canadian town and neighbourhood of 2,500 or more, each read from its own nearest location; city totals and reserves are left out.
- Not on this page: hours of sunshine, missing from the 1991–2020 normals, and a height correction: the town has no elevation on file.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Centre Hastings’s climate
How warm does Centre Hastings get in summer?
In July, the warmest month, the typical high is 26.5°C.
How cold does Centre Hastings get in winter?
Overnight lows average −11.2°C in January, the coldest month.
How much rain and snow does Centre Hastings get?
Rain and snow add up to about 941 mm of water a year; September brings the most (92 mm), February the least (60 mm).
How long does snow stay on the ground?
Around 75 days a year see 1 cm of snow or more lying.
Are these figures for Centre Hastings itself?
They come from Trenton, which ECCC uses as the nearest normals location for Centre Hastings.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Centre Hastings →
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).