Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0A middle-of-the-road climate: Havelock is close to most Canadian towns on every count
July afternoons reach 26.5°C on a typical day and January nights drop to −11.2°C; 941 mm of rain and melted snow falls in a year. Only about 146 nights a year bring a frost, fewer than in 68% of Canadian towns. The gap between a January night and a July afternoon is 38°C. Expect about 146 frosty starts a year, days when the air falls to freezing.
The nearest ECCC normals location to Havelock is Trenton, 45 km south-east, and every figure on this page is its.
A year in Havelock at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Havelock’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Havelock feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
Frost on 146 days, 20°C on 124
From October to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. Some 9 nights a year drop under −20°C.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
About 941 mm of rain and snow a year
The most falls in September, the least in February. On about 116 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
155 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
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Havelock
92% 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. That means homes here need less heating than 70% of Canadian towns.
Living with Havelock’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
From about 1 May to 10 October the garden is usually clear of frost, some 161 days.
Highs of 17–27°C with nights of 8°C or more come in Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →On some 28 days a year the wind chill drops past −20; mitts and a scarf earn their place.
Summer brings about 51 days when the humidex passes 30.
A normal year has no blizzard, flood or heat wave in it; Havelock’s hazards page looks at those.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Trenton
Every temperature, frost, snow and degree-day figure on this page is the 1991–2020 normal ECCC publishes for Trenton.
| Distance from the town | 45 km south-east |
| Station altitude | 86 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | Yes |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −35.1°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.6°C |
| Average wind | 12.7 km/h on average, most often from the south-west |
| Next-nearest location | Peterborough, 46 km |
How Havelock 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
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Havelock’s would only repeat its figures. Havelock has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 11–38 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Havelock Trenton | 26.5°C | −11.2°C | 941 mm |
| Norwood 11 km · Peterborough | 26.6°C about the same | −12.8°C 1.6°C colder | 840 mm |
| North Kawartha 34 km · Haliburton | 25.3°C 1.2°C cooler | −16.0°C 4.8°C colder | 1,106 mm |
| Madoc 35 km · Centreville | 27.2°C 0.7°C warmer | −12.4°C 1.2°C colder | 984 mm |
Havelock 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 | −1.6°C | −11.2°C | −6.4°C | 78 mm | 44 cm |
| February | −0.7°C | −10.6°C | −5.7°C | 60 mm | 39 cm |
| March | 4.4°C | −5.5°C | −0.6°C | 64 mm | 22 cm |
| April | 11.6°C | 0.9°C | 6.3°C | 84 mm | 6 cm |
| May | 18.9°C | 7.3°C | 13.1°C | 81 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 23.9°C | 12.7°C | 18.3°C | 83 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 26.5°C | 15.4°C | 21.0°C | 75 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.6°C | 14.4°C | 20.0°C | 70 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 21.6°C | 10.1°C | 15.8°C | 92 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 14.2°C | 4.2°C | 9.2°C | 91 mm | 1 cm |
| November | 7.4°C | −1.5°C | 3.0°C | 84 mm | 10 cm |
| December | 1.4°C | −6.9°C | −2.8°C | 77 mm | 33 cm |
| Year | 12.8°C | 2.4°C | 7.6°C | 941 mm | 155 cm |
March has run from −25.6°C to 25.4°C in thirty years
The month to count on least is January: one year in three its average strays more than 3.0°C from −6.4°C. June moves least, typically by 1.1°C.
Where Havelock’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals at Trenton, the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals.
- 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, 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 Havelock’s climate
How warm does Havelock get in summer?
Midsummer means July, with afternoons near 26.5°C on a typical day.
How cold does Havelock get in winter?
On a normal January night the air drops to −11.2°C, the coldest of the year.
How much rain and snow does Havelock get?
Some 941 mm falls in a year. Most of it comes in September (92 mm), the least in February (60 mm).
How long does snow stay on the ground?
Roughly 75 days a year start with snow cover of 1 cm or more.
Are these figures for Havelock itself?
They are borrowed from Trenton, the nearest place to Havelock where ECCC publishes 1991–2020 normals.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Havelock →
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).