Frost comes to Rushdale less often than to 73% of Canadian towns
Midsummer highs settle at about 26.6°C. Summer afternoons here are warmer than in 70% of Canadian towns. From frozen January to warm July, readings climb 36°C. Heating does most of its work from October to April, in months below 10°C on average.
Read at Hamilton, 7.8 km south-west: ECCC’s normals for 1991–2020.
A year in Rushdale at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Rushdale’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Rushdale feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
About 139 frosts and 123 warm days a year
Frost comes from October to May; in January almost every night freezes. About 13 days a year top 30°C.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
902 mm of precipitation in a typical year
July is the wettest month and February the driest. On about 114 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 141 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
Snowfall: Welland-Pelham, 54 km away (Hamilton records no complete year of it).
Heating a home in Rushdale
92% 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 77% of Canadian towns.
Living with Rushdale’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Frost usually lets go around 1 May and returns near 12 October, about 164 days apart.
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 20 days a year.
About 59 days a year turn sultry, with the humidex past 30.
A normal year has no blizzard, flood or heat wave in it; Rushdale’s hazards page looks at those.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Hamilton
ECCC builds the Hamilton normals from 2 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 7.8 km south-west |
| Station altitude | 238 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Welland-Pelham, 54 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −30.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 36.4°C |
| Average wind | 16.0 km/h on average, most often from the south-west |
| Next-nearest location | Burlington Piers, 11 km |
How Rushdale 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 Rushdale’s own would show the same figures). No closer places have figures: these lie 3–27 km from Rushdale.
Rushdale weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −1.4°C | −9.1°C | −5.3°C | 73 mm | 44 cm |
| February | −0.9°C | −9.2°C | −5.0°C | 53 mm | 24 cm |
| March | 4.7°C | −4.4°C | 0.2°C | 69 mm | 28 cm |
| April | 11.8°C | 1.3°C | 6.5°C | 81 mm | 5 cm |
| May | 18.9°C | 7.3°C | 13.1°C | 81 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 24.2°C | 12.8°C | 18.5°C | 78 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 26.6°C | 15.2°C | 20.9°C | 98 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.6°C | 14.5°C | 20.1°C | 67 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 21.7°C | 10.5°C | 16.1°C | 74 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 14.5°C | 4.8°C | 9.7°C | 84 mm | under 1 cm |
| November | 7.7°C | −0.2°C | 3.8°C | 78 mm | 9 cm |
| December | 1.5°C | −5.4°C | −1.9°C | 67 mm | 32 cm |
| Year | 12.9°C | 3.2°C | 8.1°C | 902 mm | 141 cm |
Two years in three, January’s average lands within 3.0°C of normal, against the steadier June
March has the widest record range, −24.6°C in 2003 to 26.8°C in 2012; the tick on each bar is the month’s normal.
Where Rushdale’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals for Hamilton, 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: the towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ across Canada, each on its nearest normals location, without the city totals or the reserves.
- Not on this page: sunshine, which none of ECCC’s 450 locations publishes for 1991–2020, and the town’s own height above sea level, so no figure is adjusted for altitude.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Rushdale’s climate
How warm does Rushdale get in summer?
In July, the warmest month, the typical high is 26.6°C.
How cold does Rushdale get in winter?
Overnight lows average −9.2°C in February, the coldest month.
How much rain and snow does Rushdale get?
Some 902 mm falls in a year. Most of it comes in July (98 mm), the least in February (53 mm).
How long does snow stay on the ground?
In a normal winter there are about 82 days with at least 1 cm of snow lying.
Are these figures for Rushdale itself?
Almost: ECCC’s Hamilton location, which gives these figures, lies a short way outside Rushdale.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Rushdale →
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).