For weather, Southdale 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. Wet days, with 1 mm of rain or snow or more, come about 115 times a year.
Figures: ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Kitchener/Waterloo (9.1 km east).
A year in Southdale at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Southdale’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Southdale feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
About 156 frosts and 122 warm days a year
From October to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost 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
About 851 mm of rain and snow a year
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
ECCC’s Kitchener/Waterloo normals leave snowfall out; the figures here come from Toronto Pearson (Airport), 74 km away.
Heating a home in Southdale
91% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
ECCC sums, over the year, how many degrees each day’s average falls short of 18°C. Over a year, a home here needs less heating than 69% of Canadian towns.
Living with Southdale’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.
Warm afternoons without cold nights, 17–27°C and 8°C or more, mark Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Ice storms, floods and heat waves are risks, not averages: they are on Southdale’s hazards page.
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 | 9.1 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, 25 km |
How Southdale 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 Southdale’s own would show the same figures). The nearest place to Southdale with figures is 13 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southdale 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 |
Southdale weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and 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 has run from −29.4°C to 26.5°C in thirty years
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 Southdale’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: 1991–2020 normals for Kitchener/Waterloo from ECCC’s climate data site, the nearest location with every month of temperature.
- Other locations: precipitation and snowfall come from the nearest location that publishes all twelve months of them, as named above.
- Comparisons: all Canadian places of 2,500 or more except city totals and reserves, each read the same way.
- Not on this page: sunshine, which none of ECCC’s 450 locations publishes for 1991–2020, and the town’s own height above sea level, so no figure is adjusted for altitude.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Southdale’s climate
How warm does Southdale get in summer?
Afternoons average 26.6°C in July, the warmest time of year.
How cold does Southdale get in winter?
In January, the coldest month, the typical low is −10.3°C.
How much rain and snow does Southdale 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 Southdale itself?
Close to it: they are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Kitchener/Waterloo, just outside Southdale’s boundary.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Southdale →
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).