No extremes in Meinzinger Park-Lakeside: its weather tracks the middle of Canadian towns
A typical July afternoon reaches 26.6°C, a January night drops to −10.3°C, and 851 mm of rain and snow falls in a year. Summer afternoons here are warmer than in 70% of Canadian towns. Some 37°C separates winter nights from summer afternoons. About 115 days a year bring 1 mm of precipitation or more.
Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals at its Kitchener/Waterloo station, 11 km east.
A year in Meinzinger Park-Lakeside at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Meinzinger Park-Lakeside’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Meinzinger Park-Lakeside 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
Frost comes from October to May; in January almost every night freezes. 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
Rain and melted snow: about 851 mm a year
The most falls in July, the least in February.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
115 cm of snow in a typical year
The snow season runs November to April; January brings the most, about 32 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Kitchener/Waterloo publishes no full year of snowfall, so these figures come from Toronto Pearson (Airport), 76 km away.
Heating a home in Meinzinger Park-Lakeside
91% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
The count adds up, day by day, how far the mean temperature falls short of 18°C. By this count, homes here need less heating than 69% of Canadian towns.
Living with Meinzinger Park-Lakeside’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Wait until about 8 May to plant out; frost tends to come back around 5 October, about 149 days later.
The outdoor season by the averages is Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep, with highs of 17–27°C and lows of 8°C or more.
Parks & trails →A normal year has no blizzard, flood or heat wave in it; Meinzinger Park-Lakeside’s hazards page looks at those.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Kitchener/Waterloo
Kitchener/Waterloo is a composite: ECCC joins 3 stations’ readings to make its 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 11 km east |
| Station altitude | 322 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Toronto Pearson (Airport), 76 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, 25 km |
How Meinzinger Park-Lakeside 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
Places around Meinzinger Park-Lakeside whose figures come from another normals location. No closer place has figures: this one lies 13 km from Meinzinger Park-Lakeside.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meinzinger Park-Lakeside Kitchener/Waterloo | 26.6°C | −10.3°C | 851 mm |
| Elmira 13 km · Elora | 25.4°C 1.2°C cooler | −10.7°C about the same | 851 mm |
Meinzinger Park-Lakeside 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
March has the widest record range, −29.4°C in 2003 to 26.5°C in 2012; the tick on each bar is the month’s normal.
Where Meinzinger Park-Lakeside’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: precipitation and snowfall come from the nearest location that publishes all twelve months of them, as named above.
- 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, 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 Meinzinger Park-Lakeside’s climate
How warm does Meinzinger Park-Lakeside get in summer?
Midsummer means July, with afternoons near 26.6°C on a typical day.
How cold does Meinzinger Park-Lakeside get in winter?
The coldest nights come in January, averaging −10.3°C.
How much rain and snow does Meinzinger Park-Lakeside get?
Precipitation totals 851 mm a year, with July the wettest month (96 mm) and February the driest (46 mm).
Are these figures for Meinzinger Park-Lakeside itself?
Nearly: Kitchener/Waterloo, the location behind them, sits just beyond Meinzinger Park-Lakeside’s boundary.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Meinzinger Park-Lakeside →
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).