Photo: Jfvoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Weather without surprises: Drayton keeps close to the norm for Canadian towns
January nights average −10.7°C, July afternoons 25.4°C, and a year brings 1,035 mm of rain and melted snow. Precipitation is plentiful here, more than falls on 70% of Canadian towns. Expect the most rain and snow in June and the least in March. About 140 days a year bring 1 mm of precipitation or more.
No ECCC station in Drayton has 1991–2020 normals; the page reads Elora, 23 km south-east, instead.
A year in Drayton at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Drayton’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Drayton feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
Frost on 156 days, 20°C on 116
Frost comes from October to May; in January almost every night freezes. On about 8 nights a year the air falls below −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 1,035 mm a year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Elora publishes no full year of precipitation, so these figures come from Mount Forest, 26 km away.
Snowfall: about 115 cm in a normal year
The snow season runs November to April; January brings the most, about 32 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Elora publishes no full year of snowfall, so these figures come from Toronto Pearson (Airport), 84 km away.
Heating a home in Drayton
91% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Every day colder than 18°C on average adds its gap in degrees to the year’s heating total. By this count, homes here need less heating than 66% of Canadian towns.
Living with Drayton’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
The comfortable months for a day outside, highs of 17–27°C and nights of 8°C or more: Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Frostbite weather, a wind chill under −20, turns up on about 27 days a year.
Summer brings about 44 days when the humidex passes 30.
Thirty years of averages say little about one bad storm; Drayton’s hazards page does.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Elora
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for Elora are 2 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 23 km south-east |
| Station altitude | 376 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Mount Forest, 26 km |
| Snowfall from | Toronto Pearson (Airport), 84 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −31.2°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 34.8°C |
| Average wind | 14.2 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Mount Forest, 26 km |
How Drayton 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
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Drayton’s own would show the same figures). The one place listed is 20 km from Drayton, the nearest with figures.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drayton Elora | 25.4°C | −10.7°C | 1,035 mm |
| Mount Forest 20 km · Mount Forest | 25.1°C about the same | −10.9°C about the same | 1,035 mm |
Drayton 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 | −3.1°C | −10.7°C | −6.9°C | 92 mm | 32 cm |
| February | −2.4°C | −11.0°C | −6.7°C | 73 mm | 28 cm |
| March | 3.1°C | −6.0°C | −1.5°C | 68 mm | 17 cm |
| April | 10.9°C | 0.3°C | 5.6°C | 74 mm | 5 cm |
| May | 18.3°C | 6.3°C | 12.3°C | 98 mm | under 1 cm |
| June | 23.2°C | 11.4°C | 17.3°C | 100 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.4°C | 13.5°C | 19.5°C | 98 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.6°C | 12.6°C | 18.6°C | 84 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 21.0°C | 8.9°C | 15.0°C | 85 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 13.4°C | 3.4°C | 8.5°C | 81 mm | under 1 cm |
| November | 6.2°C | −1.5°C | 2.4°C | 92 mm | 9 cm |
| December | 0.0°C | −6.3°C | −3.3°C | 90 mm | 24 cm |
| Year | 11.7°C | 1.8°C | 6.7°C | 1,035 mm | 115 cm |
The most changeable month: February, give or take 3.1°C; the steadiest, June
March has the widest record range, −27.5°C in 2003 to 26.4°C in 2012; the tick on each bar is the month’s normal.
Where Drayton’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals, Elora, 1991–2020.
- Other locations: precipitation and snowfall come from the nearest location that publishes all twelve months of them, as named above.
- 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: 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 Drayton’s climate
How warm does Drayton get in summer?
At its warmest, in July, the normal high is 25.4°C.
How cold does Drayton get in winter?
On a normal February night the air drops to −11.0°C, the coldest of the year.
How much rain and snow does Drayton get?
The yearly total is about 1,035 mm. June gets 100 mm, the most of any month; March gets 68 mm, the least.
Are these figures for Drayton itself?
No, the station behind them is Elora, beyond Drayton’s boundary.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Drayton →
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).