Winter nights in Hastings Highlands are colder than in 81% of Canadian towns
In July the day’s top temperature is typically 25.7°C. By precipitation alone, it ranks wetter than 81% of Canadian towns. Rain and snow are spread evenly through the year: the wettest month, November, gets little more than the driest, February. Plan for rain or snow on about 147 days a year, the days with 1 mm or more.
No ECCC station in Hastings Highlands has 1991–2020 normals; the page reads Bancroft, 13 km south, instead.
A year in Hastings Highlands at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Hastings Highlands’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Hastings Highlands feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
193 frost days and 115 days above 20°C a year
The frost season runs September to May, and January freezes nearly every night. On about 34 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
1,106 mm of precipitation in a typical year
5th wettest of 871 towns of 2,500+ in Ontario.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
ECCC’s Bancroft normals leave out precipitation and snow; both come from Haliburton here, 54 km away.
About 278 cm of snow a year
From October to May snow is likely; January is the peak, at about 67 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Heating a home in Hastings Highlands
89% 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. In heating terms, homes need more heating than 62% of Canadian towns.
Living with Hastings Highlands’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
For long days outdoors, Jun, Jul and Aug bring highs of 17–27°C and lows of 8°C or more.
Parks & trails →The wind chill passes −20 on about 29 days in a normal year.
Summer brings about 36 days when the humidex passes 30.
Ice storms, floods and heat waves are risks, not averages: they are on Hastings Highlands’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Bancroft
Every temperature, frost, snow and degree-day figure on this page is the 1991–2020 normal ECCC publishes for Bancroft.
| Distance from the town | 13 km south |
| Station altitude | 331 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Haliburton, 54 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −38.9°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.5°C |
| Average wind | 6.1 km/h on average, most often from the north |
| Next-nearest location | Haliburton, 54 km |
How Hastings Highlands 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
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Hastings Highlands’s would only repeat its figures. Distances here run 36–70 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Hastings Highlands.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hastings Highlands Bancroft | 25.7°C | −17.1°C | 1,106 mm |
| Highlands East 36 km · Haliburton | 25.3°C about the same | −16.0°C 1.1°C milder | 1,106 mm |
| Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards 55 km · Petawawa | 26.3°C 0.6°C warmer | −17.9°C 0.8°C colder | 932 mm |
Hastings Highlands 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 | −4.5°C | −17.1°C | −10.9°C | 98 mm | 67 cm |
| February | −2.1°C | −16.4°C | −9.3°C | 71 mm | 50 cm |
| March | 3.3°C | −10.4°C | −3.7°C | 76 mm | 36 cm |
| April | 10.5°C | −3.1°C | 3.7°C | 87 mm | 21 cm |
| May | 18.9°C | 3.3°C | 11.1°C | 92 mm | 2 cm |
| June | 23.1°C | 8.8°C | 16.0°C | 98 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.7°C | 11.0°C | 18.4°C | 91 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.5°C | 9.9°C | 17.3°C | 94 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.4°C | 5.9°C | 13.1°C | 99 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 12.5°C | 0.9°C | 6.7°C | 102 mm | 5 cm |
| November | 5.0°C | −4.9°C | 0.0°C | 103 mm | 33 cm |
| December | −1.6°C | −11.9°C | −6.9°C | 95 mm | 65 cm |
| Year | 11.3°C | −2.0°C | 4.6°C | 1,106 mm | 278 cm |
The most changeable month: January, give or take 3.1°C; the steadiest, June
The thirty-year records stretch furthest in March: a low of −34.2°C in 2003 and a high of 27.1°C in 2012.
Where Hastings Highlands’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals at Bancroft, the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals.
- 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: a sunshine figure (ECCC published none for 1991–2020) and any lapse-rate correction for height, as the town has no elevation here.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Hastings Highlands’s climate
How warm does Hastings Highlands get in summer?
On a normal day in July the thermometer climbs to 25.7°C, the warmest of the year.
How cold does Hastings Highlands get in winter?
At its coldest, in January, the normal low is −17.1°C.
How much rain and snow does Hastings Highlands get?
Rain and snow add up to about 1,106 mm of water a year; November brings the most (103 mm), February the least (71 mm).
Are these figures for Hastings Highlands itself?
No. ECCC measures normals at Bancroft, not in Hastings Highlands; the page uses the nearest it has.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Hastings Highlands →
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).