Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0Neither notably warm, cold, wet nor dry, East Garafraxa sits near the middle of Canadian towns
About 1,035 mm of rain and snow falls in a typical year; July afternoons reach 25.4°C and January nights drop to −10.7°C. The wettest month is June; the driest is March. It is a wet place: more rain and snow fall here than on 70% of Canadian towns. Windshields need scraping on about 156 mornings a year, the days the air reaches 0°C or below.
No ECCC station in East Garafraxa has 1991–2020 normals; the page reads Elora, 28 km south-west, instead.
A year in East Garafraxa at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about East Garafraxa’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in East Garafraxa feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
About 156 frosts and 116 warm days a year
Frost comes from October to May; in January almost every night freezes. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 8 nights a year.
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
Some 140 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Precipitation: Mount Forest, 45 km away (Elora records no complete year of it).
115 cm of snow in a typical 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), 51 km away.
Heating a home in East Garafraxa
91% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
A heating degree day is one degree of shortfall below 18°C for one day, summed over the year. Over a year, a home here needs less heating than 66% of Canadian towns.
Living with East Garafraxa’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
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 →Count on some 27 days a year when the wind makes it feel below −20.
Count on some 44 humid days a year with the humidex past 30.
Thirty-year normals hide the storms and the extremes: the hazards page has East Garafraxa’s risks.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Elora
Elora is a composite: ECCC joins 2 stations’ readings to make its 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 28 km south-west |
| Station altitude | 376 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Mount Forest, 45 km |
| Snowfall from | Toronto Pearson (Airport), 51 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, 45 km |
How East Garafraxa 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
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on East Garafraxa’s own would show the same figures). Distances here run 18–33 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from East Garafraxa.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Garafraxa Elora | 25.4°C | −10.7°C | 1,035 mm |
| Mono 18 km · Egbert | 26.0°C 0.6°C warmer | −11.3°C 0.6°C colder | 793 mm |
| Mount Forest 33 km · Mount Forest | 25.1°C about the same | −10.9°C about the same | 1,035 mm |
| Georgetown 33 km · Toronto Pearson (Airport) | 27.4°C 2.0°C warmer | −8.9°C 1.8°C milder | 807 mm |
East Garafraxa 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 |
Two years in three, February’s average lands within 3.1°C of normal, against the steadier June
Each bar spans a month’s coldest and warmest readings over thirty years; March’s run from −27.5°C in 2003 to 26.4°C in 2012.
Where East Garafraxa’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals for Elora, the nearest location with a full year of temperatures.
- Other locations: precipitation and snowfall come from the nearest location that publishes all twelve months of them, as named above.
- Comparisons: every place of 2,500+ in Canada but the city hubs and the reserves, each on its nearest ECCC location.
- 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 East Garafraxa’s climate
How warm does East Garafraxa get in summer?
Highs reach 25.4°C on an average July day; no month is warmer.
How cold does East Garafraxa get in winter?
In February, the coldest month, the typical low is −11.0°C.
How much rain and snow does East Garafraxa get?
The year adds up to 1,035 mm. June is the peak month (100 mm) and March the low one (68 mm).
Are these figures for East Garafraxa itself?
They describe Elora, the nearest normals location, rather than East Garafraxa itself.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for East Garafraxa →
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).