Summer arrives in force in Brown's Corners, hotter than in 91% of Canadian towns
Nights in January average −10.1°C. Expect the most rain and snow in June and the least in February. Frosty nights are scarcer than in 70% of Canadian towns. Have the furnace checked before October to April, the months that average under 10°C.
These are not Brown's Corners’s own readings: ECCC keeps no normals there, so the page uses Toronto Buttonville (Airport), 2.4 km west.
A year in Brown's Corners at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Brown's Corners’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Brown's Corners feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
Frost on 145 days, 20°C on 126
Frost comes from October to May; in January almost every night freezes. On about 6 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
862 mm of precipitation in a typical year
Some 113 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
146 cm of snow in a typical year
Expect snow from November to April, with about 40 cm in January, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Brown's Corners
93% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Heating degree days total each day’s gap between its mean temperature and 18°C. By this count, homes here need less heating than 74% of Canadian towns.
Living with Brown's Corners’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Seedlings can go out once the average last frost, around 3 May, has passed; autumn’s first, near 13 October, ends a season of about 161 days.
The comfortable months for a day outside, highs of 17–27°C and nights of 8°C or more: Jun, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Winter brings about 22 days with a wind chill below −20.
Expect around 55 sticky days a year with the humidex above 30.
Averages smooth over blizzards, ice storms, floods and heat waves; Brown's Corners’s hazards page covers the risks.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Toronto Buttonville (Airport)
Toronto Buttonville (Airport) is a composite: ECCC joins 3 stations’ readings to make its 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 2.4 km west |
| Station altitude | 198 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −35.2°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 37.8°C |
| Average wind | 12.2 km/h on average, most often from the north |
| Next-nearest location | Toronto (City), 21 km |
How Brown's Corners 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 Brown's Corners whose figures come from another normals location. No closer places have figures: these lie 16–29 km from Brown's Corners.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brown's Corners Toronto Buttonville (Airport) | 27.3°C | −10.1°C | 862 mm |
| Toronto 16 km · Toronto (City) | 27.0°C about the same | −6.7°C 3.4°C milder | 823 mm |
| Pickering 19 km · Oshawa | 25.7°C 1.6°C cooler | −8.9°C 1.2°C milder | 906 mm |
| East Gwillimbury 29 km · Udora | 26.3°C 1.0°C cooler | −11.7°C 1.6°C colder | 883 mm |
Brown's Corners 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 | −1.7°C | −10.1°C | −6.0°C | 64 mm | 40 cm |
| February | −1.0°C | −10.1°C | −5.6°C | 51 mm | 34 cm |
| March | 4.6°C | −5.0°C | −0.2°C | 52 mm | 20 cm |
| April | 11.8°C | 1.2°C | 6.5°C | 79 mm | 7 cm |
| May | 19.3°C | 7.4°C | 13.4°C | 80 mm | under 1 cm |
| June | 24.6°C | 13.0°C | 18.8°C | 87 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 27.3°C | 15.6°C | 21.5°C | 85 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 26.3°C | 14.8°C | 20.6°C | 72 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 21.9°C | 10.4°C | 16.2°C | 83 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 14.3°C | 4.3°C | 9.4°C | 71 mm | 1 cm |
| November | 7.4°C | −0.8°C | 3.3°C | 77 mm | 12 cm |
| December | 1.5°C | −5.8°C | −2.2°C | 63 mm | 33 cm |
| Year | 13.0°C | 2.9°C | 8.0°C | 862 mm | 146 cm |
March has run from −25.6°C to 26.3°C in thirty years
From one year to the next, January’s average typically shifts by 3.1°C around its normal of −6.0°C, the widest of any month, while June’s shifts by 1.2°C.
Where Brown's Corners’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: 1991–2020 normals for Toronto Buttonville (Airport) from ECCC’s climate data site, the nearest location with every month of temperature.
- Comparisons: a pool of Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, read alike; whole cities and reserves stay out of it.
- 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 Brown's Corners’s climate
How warm does Brown's Corners get in summer?
July is the warmest month, with average highs of 27.3°C.
How cold does Brown's Corners get in winter?
Midwinter means January, when a typical night reaches −10.1°C.
How much rain and snow does Brown's Corners get?
Rain and snow add up to about 862 mm of water a year; June brings the most (87 mm), February the least (51 mm).
How long does snow stay on the ground?
In a normal winter there are about 76 days with at least 1 cm of snow lying.
Are these figures for Brown's Corners itself?
No: Brown's Corners has no normals location, so the figures come from Toronto Buttonville (Airport), the nearest with 1991–2020 normals.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Brown's Corners →
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).