No extremes in Mt. Hope Huron Park: its weather tracks the middle of Canadian towns
A typical January night drops to −10.3°C and a July afternoon reaches 26.6°C; 851 mm of rain and snow falls in a year. Summer afternoons here are warmer than in 70% of Canadian towns. From frozen January to warm July, readings climb 37°C. Have the furnace checked before October to April, the months that average under 10°C.
1991–2020 normals from ECCC’s Kitchener/Waterloo location, 9.3 km east.
A year in Mt. Hope Huron Park at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Mt. Hope Huron Park’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Mt. Hope Huron Park feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
Frost on 156 days, 20°C on 122
The frost season runs October to May, and January freezes nearly every night. On about 7 nights a year the air falls below −20°C.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
851 mm of precipitation in a typical year
The most falls in July, the least in February. On about 115 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
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 Mt. Hope Huron Park
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. That means homes here need less heating than 69% of Canadian towns.
Living with Mt. Hope Huron Park’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Wait until about 8 May to plant out; frost tends to come back around 5 October, about 149 days later.
Afternoons of 17–27°C and nights of at least 8°C arrive in Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →What averages leave out, the floods and ice storms, is on Mt. Hope Huron Park’s hazards page.
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 | 9.3 km 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, 22 km |
How Mt. Hope Huron Park 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 Mt. Hope Huron Park’s would only repeat its figures. The one place listed is 10 km from Mt. Hope Huron Park, the nearest with figures.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mt. Hope Huron Park Kitchener/Waterloo | 26.6°C | −10.3°C | 851 mm |
| Elmira 9.9 km · Elora | 25.4°C 1.2°C cooler | −10.7°C about the same | 851 mm |
Mt. Hope Huron 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 |
March: −29.4°C at its coldest, 26.5°C at its warmest
From one year to the next, February’s average typically shifts by 3.1°C around its normal of −5.9°C, the widest of any month, while June’s shifts by 1.1°C.
Where Mt. Hope Huron 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: all Canadian places of 2,500 or more except city totals and reserves, each read the same way.
- 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 Mt. Hope Huron Park’s climate
How warm does Mt. Hope Huron Park get in summer?
On a normal day in July the thermometer climbs to 26.6°C, the warmest of the year.
How cold does Mt. Hope Huron Park get in winter?
January nights average −10.3°C, the coldest of the year.
How much rain and snow does Mt. Hope Huron Park 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 Mt. Hope Huron Park itself?
They are the normals for Kitchener/Waterloo, measured just outside Mt. Hope Huron Park itself.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Mt. Hope Huron 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).