Talbot gets fewer frosts than 75% of Canadian towns
On a normal July day the thermometer tops out near 26.6°C. Summer afternoons here are warmer than in 70% of Canadian towns. Rain and snow are spread evenly through the year: the wettest month, September, gets little more than the driest, February. Wet days, with 1 mm of rain or snow or more, come about 128 times a year.
Figures: ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for London (17 km north-east).
A year in Talbot at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Talbot’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Talbot feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
About 139 frosts and 128 warm days a year
Frost comes from October to May; in January almost every night freezes. Some 11 days a year climb past 30°C.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
About 962 mm of rain and snow a year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
152 cm of snow in a typical year
From October to April snow is likely; January is the peak, at about 43 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
London publishes no full year of snowfall, so these figures come from Strathroy-Mullifarry, 28 km away.
Heating a home in Talbot
92% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
A day averaging 10 degrees under 18°C adds 10 to the total; warm days add nothing. In heating terms, homes need less heating than 79% of Canadian towns.
Living with Talbot’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
The frost-free stretch runs from about 3 May to about 16 October, some 165 days in a normal year.
Highs of 17–27°C with nights of 8°C or more come in Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →The wind chill passes −20 on about 18 days in a normal year.
Summer brings about 55 days when the humidex passes 30.
Storms, floods and heat waves sit outside these normals; Talbot’s hazards page covers them.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: London
ECCC builds the London normals from 3 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 17 km north-east |
| Station altitude | 278 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Strathroy-Mullifarry, 28 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −29.1°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 37.0°C |
| Average wind | 14.0 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Strathroy-Mullifarry, 28 km |
How Talbot 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
Places around Talbot whose figures come from another normals location. The one place listed is 14 km from Talbot, the nearest with figures.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Talbot London | 26.6°C | −9.1°C | 962 mm |
| Oneida 41 14 km · Strathroy-Mullifarry | 27.3°C 0.7°C warmer | −8.5°C 0.6°C milder | 966 mm |
Talbot weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −1.6°C | −9.1°C | −5.4°C | 79 mm | 43 cm |
| February | −0.6°C | −9.0°C | −4.8°C | 63 mm | 32 cm |
| March | 4.6°C | −4.5°C | 0.1°C | 67 mm | 20 cm |
| April | 12.2°C | 1.4°C | 6.8°C | 89 mm | 5 cm |
| May | 19.3°C | 7.7°C | 13.5°C | 89 mm | under 1 cm |
| June | 24.4°C | 13.2°C | 18.8°C | 86 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 26.6°C | 15.3°C | 21.0°C | 81 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.7°C | 14.4°C | 20.1°C | 67 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 22.1°C | 10.5°C | 16.3°C | 93 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 14.7°C | 5.0°C | 9.9°C | 83 mm | 2 cm |
| November | 7.5°C | −0.3°C | 3.6°C | 88 mm | 13 cm |
| December | 1.4°C | −5.2°C | −2.0°C | 79 mm | 37 cm |
| Year | 13.0°C | 3.3°C | 8.2°C | 962 mm | 152 cm |
From −25.6°C to 27.2°C: March’s coldest and warmest days since 1991
Year to year, February varies most (a standard deviation of 3.0°C around −4.8°C) and June least (1.1°C).
Where Talbot’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s normals for London, 1991–2020, chosen as the nearest location with a full temperature record.
- 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 Canadian town and neighbourhood of 2,500 or more, each read from its own nearest location; city totals and reserves are left out.
- Not on this page: sunshine, absent from every 1991–2020 location, and an altitude correction, for want of 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 Talbot’s climate
How warm does Talbot get in summer?
A normal July afternoon tops out at about 26.6°C, the year’s high point.
How cold does Talbot get in winter?
At its coldest, in January, the normal low is −9.1°C.
How much rain and snow does Talbot get?
Measured as water, a year brings 962 mm: 93 mm in September, the wettest month, and 63 mm in February, the driest.
Are these figures for Talbot itself?
Almost: ECCC’s London location, which gives these figures, lies a short way outside Talbot.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Talbot →
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).