Photo: WabbitWanderer from London, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Little Current sits near the bottom of Canadian towns for July heat
January mornings start at about −12.9°C. Frost is rarer than in 71% of Canadian towns: about 144 nights a year drop below freezing. Temperatures cover 35°C across the year, low to high. Wet days, with 1 mm of rain or snow or more, come about 122 times a year.
ECCC publishes no normals for Little Current itself; the figures are those of Killarney, 35 km east.
A year in Little Current at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Little Current’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Little Current feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
144 frost days a year
Frost comes from October to April; in January almost every night freezes. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 11 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Rain and melted snow: about 912 mm a year
The most falls in September, the least in February.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
ECCC’s Killarney normals leave precipitation out; the figures here come from Sudbury, 113 km away.
Living with Little Current’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Mild days and mild nights together (17–27°C by day, 8°C or more at night) belong to Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →On some 40 days a year the wind chill drops past −20; mitts and a scarf earn their place.
The air feels heavier than 30 on the humidex for about 8 days a year.
A normal year has no blizzard, flood or heat wave in it; Little Current’s hazards page looks at those.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Killarney
The page’s figures are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Killarney, one of its 450 normals locations.
| Distance from the town | 35 km east |
| Station altitude | 196 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Sudbury, 113 km |
| Snowfall from | No location within 100 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −33.9°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 32.1°C |
| Average wind | 15.1 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Gore Bay, 51 km |
How Little Current 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
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Little Current’s own would show the same figures). The one place listed is 27 km from Little Current, the nearest with figures.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Current Killarney | 22.4°C | −12.9°C | 912 mm |
| Sagamok 27 km · Gore Bay | 24.4°C 2.0°C warmer | −13.6°C 0.7°C colder | 912 mm |
Little Current weather by month
Average daily high and low, mean temperature and precipitation by month, 1991–2020.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −4.8°C | −12.9°C | −8.8°C | 67 mm |
| February | −3.8°C | −12.3°C | −8.1°C | 51 mm |
| March | 0.7°C | −7.0°C | −3.2°C | 58 mm |
| April | 7.0°C | 0.1°C | 3.6°C | 68 mm |
| May | 13.8°C | 6.8°C | 10.3°C | 79 mm |
| June | 19.2°C | 12.8°C | 16.0°C | 77 mm |
| July | 22.4°C | 16.1°C | 19.2°C | 84 mm |
| August | 21.6°C | 15.6°C | 18.6°C | 90 mm |
| September | 18.1°C | 12.0°C | 15.0°C | 103 mm |
| October | 11.4°C | 5.5°C | 8.5°C | 94 mm |
| November | 5.2°C | −0.8°C | 2.3°C | 75 mm |
| December | −0.9°C | −7.7°C | −4.3°C | 66 mm |
| Year | 9.2°C | 2.3°C | 5.8°C | 912 mm |
January varies most from one year to the next (3.6°C), June least
Over 1991–2020, March saw both −28.3°C (2003) and 16.3°C (1993), the widest span of any month.
Where Little Current’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the Canadian Climate Normals, 1991–2020, at Killarney (the closest location with all twelve months of temperatures).
- Other locations: precipitation and snowfall come from the nearest location that publishes all twelve months of them, as named above.
- Comparisons: Canada’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ (no city totals, no reserves), each through its own nearest location.
- Not on this page: a snowfall figure (none within 100 km), sunshine (none for 1991–2020) and the town’s own elevation.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Little Current’s climate
How warm does Little Current get in summer?
Peak warmth comes in July, at about 22.4°C by mid-afternoon.
How cold does Little Current get in winter?
The year’s coldest nights belong to January, at about −12.9°C.
How much rain and snow does Little Current get?
Over twelve months, rain and melted snow come to 912 mm; the range runs from 51 mm in February to 103 mm in September.
Are these figures for Little Current itself?
Not quite: they come from Killarney, the closest ECCC normals location to Little Current.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Little Current →
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).