For weather, Pioneer Park is about as ordinary as Canadian towns get
July afternoons reach 26.6°C on a typical day and January nights drop to −10.3°C; 851 mm of rain and melted snow falls in a year. Summer afternoons here are warmer than in 70% of Canadian towns. Expect the most rain and snow in July and the least in February. Frost comes on about 156 days a year, so leave time to clear the car.
Read at Kitchener/Waterloo, 8.5 km north-east: ECCC’s normals for 1991–2020.
A year in Pioneer Park at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Pioneer Park’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Pioneer Park feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
156 frost days and 122 days above 20°C a year
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
About 851 mm of rain and snow 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
Snow falls from November to April, most of all in January (about 32 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
ECCC’s Kitchener/Waterloo normals leave snowfall out; the figures here come from Toronto Pearson (Airport), 72 km away.
Heating a home in Pioneer Park
91% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
A heating degree day is one degree of shortfall below 18°C for one day, summed over the year. By this count, homes here need less heating than 69% of Canadian towns.
Living with Pioneer Park’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
The growing season between frosts lasts about 149 days, roughly 8 May to 5 October.
The comfortable months for a day outside, highs of 17–27°C and nights of 8°C or more: Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Extremes don’t show in averages: floods, wildfire smoke and ice storms are on Pioneer 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 | 8.5 km north-east |
| Station altitude | 322 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Toronto Pearson (Airport), 72 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, 28 km |
How Pioneer 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
Places around Pioneer Park whose figures come from another normals location. The nearest place to Pioneer Park with figures is 18 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pioneer Park Kitchener/Waterloo | 26.6°C | −10.3°C | 851 mm |
| Elmira 18 km · Elora | 25.4°C 1.2°C cooler | −10.7°C about the same | 851 mm |
Pioneer Park 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 | −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
Year to year, February varies most (a standard deviation of 3.1°C around −5.9°C) and June least (1.1°C).
Where Pioneer Park’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals for Kitchener/Waterloo, the nearest location with a full year of temperatures.
- Other locations: where a location publishes no full year of precipitation or snowfall, the nearest one that does supplies it, named beside those figures.
- Comparisons: every place of 2,500+ in Canada but the city hubs and the reserves, each on its nearest ECCC location.
- 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 Pioneer Park’s climate
How warm does Pioneer Park get in summer?
At its warmest, in July, the normal high is 26.6°C.
How cold does Pioneer Park get in winter?
The coldest nights come in January, averaging −10.3°C.
How much rain and snow does Pioneer 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 Pioneer Park itself?
Nearly: Kitchener/Waterloo, the location behind them, sits just beyond Pioneer Park’s boundary.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Pioneer 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).