For weather, Country Hills is about as ordinary as Canadian towns get
A typical year brings 851 mm of rain and melted snow, with July afternoons around 26.6°C and January nights around −10.3°C. In July, afternoons here are warmer than in 70% of Canadian towns. The year swings widely: the coldest month’s nights and the warmest month’s afternoons are 37°C apart. Heating does most of its work from October to April, in months below 10°C on average.
Read at Kitchener/Waterloo, 9.0 km north-east: ECCC’s normals for 1991–2020.
A year in Country Hills at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Country Hills’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Country Hills feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
About 156 frosts and 122 warm days a year
The frost season runs October to May, and January freezes nearly every night. Some 7 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 851 mm of rain and snow a year
July is the wettest month and February the driest. Some 115 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
115 cm of snow in a typical year
Expect snow from November to April, with about 32 cm in January, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Kitchener/Waterloo publishes no full year of snowfall, so these figures come from Toronto Pearson (Airport), 74 km away.
Heating a home in Country Hills
91% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Behind the figure: the degrees each day’s mean falls under 18°C, summed for the year. Homes here need less heating than 69% of Canadian towns.
Living with Country Hills’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Wait until about 8 May to plant out; frost tends to come back around 5 October, about 149 days later.
Plan time outside for Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep: highs of 17–27°C and nights no colder than 8°C.
Parks & trails →Averages smooth over blizzards, ice storms, floods and heat waves; Country Hills’s hazards page covers the risks.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Kitchener/Waterloo
ECCC builds the Kitchener/Waterloo normals from 3 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 9.0 km north-east |
| Station altitude | 322 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Toronto Pearson (Airport), 74 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −34.1°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 36.5°C |
| Average wind | 13.8 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Elora, 27 km |
How Country Hills compares
Compared with 2,611 towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more across Canada; the dots mark the other normals locations in Ontario.
Nearby towns’ climate
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Country Hills’s own would show the same figures). The nearest place to Country Hills with figures is 16 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Country Hills Kitchener/Waterloo | 26.6°C | −10.3°C | 851 mm |
| Elmira 16 km · Elora | 25.4°C 1.2°C cooler | −10.7°C about the same | 851 mm |
Country Hills 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 | −2.3°C | −10.3°C | −6.3°C | 66 mm | 32 cm |
| February | −1.4°C | −10.3°C | −5.9°C | 46 mm | 28 cm |
| March | 4.1°C | −5.6°C | −0.8°C | 57 mm | 17 cm |
| April | 11.6°C | 0.1°C | 5.9°C | 81 mm | 5 cm |
| May | 19.0°C | 6.2°C | 12.6°C | 80 mm | under 1 cm |
| June | 24.1°C | 11.5°C | 17.8°C | 81 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 26.6°C | 13.7°C | 20.2°C | 96 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.5°C | 12.7°C | 19.1°C | 67 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 21.6°C | 8.7°C | 15.2°C | 75 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 14.1°C | 3.4°C | 8.8°C | 71 mm | under 1 cm |
| November | 6.8°C | −1.6°C | 2.6°C | 75 mm | 9 cm |
| December | 0.7°C | −6.3°C | −2.8°C | 55 mm | 24 cm |
| Year | 12.5°C | 1.9°C | 7.2°C | 851 mm | 115 cm |
The most changeable month: February, give or take 3.1°C; the steadiest, June
The thirty-year records stretch furthest in March: a low of −29.4°C in 2003 and a high of 26.5°C in 2012.
Where Country Hills’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals, Kitchener/Waterloo: the nearest of its locations with every month’s temperatures.
- 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: 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: 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 Country Hills’s climate
How warm does Country Hills get in summer?
At its warmest, in July, the normal high is 26.6°C.
How cold does Country Hills get in winter?
The year’s coldest nights belong to January, at about −10.3°C.
How much rain and snow does Country Hills get?
Rain and snow add up to about 851 mm of water a year; July brings the most (96 mm), February the least (46 mm).
Are these figures for Country Hills itself?
Almost: ECCC’s Kitchener/Waterloo location, which gives these figures, lies a short way outside Country Hills.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Country Hills →
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).