For weather, Heritage Park is about as ordinary as Canadian towns get
January nights average −10.3°C, July afternoons 26.6°C, and a year brings 851 mm of rain and melted snow. July is the wettest month, February the driest. Summer afternoons here are warmer than in 70% of Canadian towns. The furnace earns its keep from October to April, the months that average under 10°C.
Figures: ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Kitchener/Waterloo (5.3 km east).
A year in Heritage Park at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Heritage Park’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Heritage Park feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on 156 days, 20°C on 122
From October to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 7 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
Rain and melted snow: about 851 mm a year
On about 115 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 115 cm in a normal 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), 70 km away.
Heating a home in Heritage Park
91% 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. Homes here need less heating than 69% of Canadian towns.
Living with Heritage Park’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
About 149 days a year pass without frost, from an average last frost of 8 May to a first of 5 October.
Highs of 17–27°C with nights of 8°C or more come in Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Storms, floods and heat waves sit outside these normals; Heritage Park’s hazards page covers them.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Kitchener/Waterloo
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for Kitchener/Waterloo are 3 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 5.3 km east |
| Station altitude | 322 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Toronto Pearson (Airport), 70 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, 22 km |
How Heritage Park 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
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Heritage Park’s own would show the same figures). No closer place has figures: this one lies 12 km from Heritage Park.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heritage Park Kitchener/Waterloo | 26.6°C | −10.3°C | 851 mm |
| Elmira 12 km · Elora | 25.4°C 1.2°C cooler | −10.7°C about the same | 851 mm |
Heritage Park 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 |
February strays furthest from its normal year to year, by 3.1°C; June the least
Over 1991–2020, March saw both −29.4°C (2003) and 26.5°C (2012), the widest span of any month.
Where Heritage Park’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s normals for Kitchener/Waterloo, 1991–2020, chosen as the nearest location with a full temperature record.
- 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: a pool of Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, read alike; whole cities and reserves stay out of it.
- Not on this page: sunshine (no 1991–2020 normals exist for it) and any altitude adjustment, since there is no elevation for the town itself.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Heritage Park’s climate
How warm does Heritage Park get in summer?
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 26.6°C.
How cold does Heritage Park get in winter?
Winter bottoms out in January, with lows near −10.3°C.
How much rain and snow does Heritage Park get?
July is the wettest month at 96 mm and February the driest at 46 mm, for 851 mm over the year.
Are these figures for Heritage Park itself?
Almost: ECCC’s Kitchener/Waterloo location, which gives these figures, lies a short way outside Heritage Park.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Heritage Park →
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).