Frost comes to Sherwood less often than to 92% of Canadian towns
Expect July afternoons of about 25.5°C. Seasons differ by 32°C, from the coldest nights to the warmest afternoons. From June to September, highs of 21–26°C make it easy to spend the day outdoors.
Sherwood has no ECCC normals station of its own: every figure here comes from Burlington Piers, 8.6 km north.
A year in Sherwood at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Sherwood’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Sherwood feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
98 frost days a year
Frosts fall from November to April; January has the most, about 25.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Rain and melted snow: about 902 mm a year
The most falls in July, the least in February. On about 114 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Burlington Piers publishes no full year of precipitation, so these figures come from Hamilton, 11 km away.
141 cm of snow in a typical year
From November to April snow is likely; January is the peak, at about 44 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
ECCC’s Burlington Piers normals leave snowfall out; the figures here come from Welland-Pelham, 53 km away.
Living with Sherwood’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Afternoons of 17–27°C and nights of at least 8°C arrive in Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →The wind chill passes −20 on about 10 days in a normal year.
The humidex tops 30 on about 46 days a year: muggy days to plan around.
Thirty-year normals hide the storms and the extremes: the hazards page has Sherwood’s risks.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Burlington Piers
Burlington Piers is one of the 450 places where ECCC publishes 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 8.6 km north |
| Station altitude | 77 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Hamilton, 11 km |
| Snowfall from | Welland-Pelham, 53 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −25.3°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 36.0°C |
| Average wind | 13.3 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Hamilton, 11 km |
How Sherwood 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 Sherwood whose figures come from another normals location. No closer places have figures: these lie 21–27 km from Sherwood.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sherwood Burlington Piers | 25.5°C | −6.3°C | 902 mm |
| Grimsby 21 km · Vineland | 27.1°C 1.6°C warmer | −6.8°C 0.5°C colder | 838 mm |
| Six Nations (Part) 40 27 km · Hamilton | 26.6°C 1.1°C warmer | −9.1°C 2.8°C colder | 902 mm |
Sherwood 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 | 0.1°C | −6.3°C | −3.1°C | 73 mm | 44 cm |
| February | 0.7°C | −5.9°C | −2.6°C | 53 mm | 24 cm |
| March | 4.7°C | −1.9°C | 1.4°C | 69 mm | 28 cm |
| April | 10.3°C | 3.3°C | 6.9°C | 81 mm | 5 cm |
| May | 16.7°C | 9.0°C | 12.9°C | 81 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 22.4°C | 15.1°C | 18.8°C | 78 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.5°C | 18.3°C | 21.9°C | 98 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.9°C | 18.3°C | 21.6°C | 67 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 21.4°C | 14.6°C | 18.1°C | 74 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 14.8°C | 8.3°C | 11.6°C | 84 mm | under 1 cm |
| November | 8.4°C | 2.7°C | 5.6°C | 78 mm | 9 cm |
| December | 2.9°C | −2.5°C | 0.2°C | 67 mm | 32 cm |
| Year | 12.7°C | 6.1°C | 9.4°C | 902 mm | 141 cm |
February varies most from one year to the next (2.7°C), August least
Each bar spans a month’s coldest and warmest readings over thirty years; March’s run from −21.2°C in 2003 to 24.4°C in 1998.
Where Sherwood’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: 1991–2020 normals for Burlington Piers from ECCC’s climate data site, the nearest location with every month of temperature.
- Other locations: a location missing months of precipitation or snow is filled from the nearest that has them all, never mixed month by month.
- 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 Sherwood’s climate
How warm does Sherwood get in summer?
The year’s warmest days come in July, with highs averaging 25.5°C.
How cold does Sherwood get in winter?
Expect nights around −6.3°C in January; no month is colder.
How much rain and snow does Sherwood get?
902 mm a year counting snow as water. The wettest month is July (98 mm); the driest, February (53 mm).
Are these figures for Sherwood itself?
Not quite: they come from Burlington Piers, the closest ECCC normals location to Sherwood.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Sherwood →
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).