Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Kapuskasing has some of the coldest winter nights among Canadian towns
Expect July afternoons of about 24.1°C. The wettest month is September; the driest is February. Summers stay cool: July afternoons here are cooler than in 70% of Canadian towns. Frost comes on about 207 days a year, so leave time to clear the car.
1991–2020 normals from ECCC’s Kapuskasing station, 4.3 km west.
A year in Kapuskasing at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Kapuskasing’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Kapuskasing feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
Frost on 207 days, 20°C on 88
From September to June frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. Some 63 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 806 mm of rain and snow a year
Some 127 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 303 cm in a normal year
The snow season runs October to May; December brings the most, about 57 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Kapuskasing
88% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
The total grows by a degree for every degree a day’s mean sits under 18°C. By this count, homes here need more heating than almost every Canadian town.
Living with Kapuskasing’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Wait until about 4 June to plant out; frost tends to come back around 17 September, about 104 days later.
The comfortable months for a day outside, highs of 17–27°C and nights of 8°C or more: Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Bitter wind chill, under −20, comes on about 90 days a year.
A humidex above 30 marks about 23 days in a normal year.
Averages smooth over blizzards, ice storms, floods and heat waves; Kapuskasing’s hazards page covers the risks.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Kapuskasing
ECCC builds the Kapuskasing normals from 3 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 4.3 km west |
| Station altitude | 227 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −43.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 38.3°C |
| Average wind | 12.4 km/h on average, most often from the north-west |
| Next-nearest location | Timmins/Victor Power, 121 km |
How Kapuskasing 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 Kapuskasing’s would only repeat its figures. The one place listed is 108 km from Kapuskasing, the nearest with figures.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kapuskasing | 24.1°C | −23.3°C | 806 mm |
| Cochrane 108 km · Timmins/Victor Power | 24.4°C about the same | −22.3°C 1.0°C milder | 796 mm |
Kapuskasing 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 | −11.5°C | −23.3°C | −17.4°C | 48 mm | 54 cm |
| February | −8.5°C | −22.3°C | −15.4°C | 33 mm | 40 cm |
| March | −1.1°C | −15.4°C | −8.2°C | 45 mm | 42 cm |
| April | 6.9°C | −6.0°C | 0.5°C | 58 mm | 34 cm |
| May | 16.0°C | 2.0°C | 9.1°C | 67 mm | 6 cm |
| June | 22.0°C | 8.0°C | 15.0°C | 74 mm | under 1 cm |
| July | 24.1°C | 11.2°C | 17.7°C | 99 mm | under 1 cm |
| August | 22.6°C | 9.9°C | 16.3°C | 79 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 17.4°C | 5.8°C | 11.6°C | 99 mm | 1 cm |
| October | 8.5°C | −0.1°C | 4.2°C | 85 mm | 17 cm |
| November | 0.1°C | −7.6°C | −3.8°C | 67 mm | 52 cm |
| December | −7.4°C | −16.9°C | −12.2°C | 53 mm | 57 cm |
| Year | 7.4°C | −4.6°C | 1.4°C | 806 mm | 303 cm |
From year to year, January moves by 3.6°C, more than any month, and July least
Each bar spans a month’s coldest and warmest readings over thirty years; March’s run from −37.8°C in 2017 to 26.2°C in 2012.
Where Kapuskasing’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals, Kapuskasing: the nearest of its locations with every month’s temperatures.
- Comparisons: all Canadian places of 2,500 or more except city totals and reserves, each read the same way.
- Not on this page: hours of sunshine, missing from the 1991–2020 normals, and a height correction: the town has no elevation on file.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Kapuskasing’s climate
How warm does Kapuskasing get in summer?
July is the warmest month, with average highs of 24.1°C.
How cold does Kapuskasing get in winter?
The coldest nights come in January, averaging −23.3°C.
How much rain and snow does Kapuskasing get?
Rain and snow add up to about 806 mm of water a year; September brings the most (99 mm), February the least (33 mm).
How long does snow stay on the ground?
The ground is white, with 1 cm or more, on some 165 days a year.
Are these figures for Kapuskasing itself?
They are: the normals station that gives them stands in Kapuskasing.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Kapuskasing →
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).