Photo: Benjamin Pickles · CC BY-SA 2.0For weather, Paris is about as ordinary as Canadian towns get
A typical year brings 851 mm of rain and melted snow, with July afternoons around 26.6°C and January nights around −10.3°C. In July, afternoons here are warmer than in 70% of Canadian towns. The wettest month is July; the driest is February. An umbrella or a shovel earns its place on about 115 days a year with 1 mm or more.
These are not Paris’s own readings: ECCC keeps no normals there, so the page uses Kitchener/Waterloo, 31 km north.
A year in Paris at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Paris’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Paris feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
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
851 mm of precipitation in a typical year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 115 cm in a normal year
From November to April snow is likely; January is the peak, at about 32 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Kitchener/Waterloo publishes no full year of snowfall, so these figures come from Toronto Pearson (Airport), 82 km away.
Heating a home in Paris
91% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Think of it as a year’s worth of daily shortfalls below 18°C, added up. In heating terms, homes need less heating than 69% of Canadian towns.
Living with Paris’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
About 149 days a year pass without frost, from an average last frost of 8 May to a first of 5 October.
Plan time outside for Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep: highs of 17–27°C and nights no colder than 8°C.
Parks & trails →Storms, floods and heat waves sit outside these normals; Paris’s hazards page covers them.
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 | 31 km north |
| Station altitude | 322 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Toronto Pearson (Airport), 82 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 | Hamilton, 35 km |
How Paris compares
Compared with 2,611 towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more across Canada; the dots mark the other normals locations in Ontario.
Nearby towns’ climate
Places around Paris whose figures come from another normals location. The nearest places to Paris with figures are 10–29 km away.
Paris 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 |
February strays furthest from its normal year to year, by 3.1°C; June the least
March has the widest record range, −29.4°C in 2003 to 26.5°C in 2012; the tick on each bar is the month’s normal.
Where Paris’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals, Kitchener/Waterloo, 1991–2020.
- 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 sunshine figure (ECCC published none for 1991–2020) and any lapse-rate correction for height, as the town has no elevation here.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Paris’s climate
How warm does Paris get in summer?
Highs reach 26.6°C on an average July day; no month is warmer.
How cold does Paris get in winter?
Deep winter means January, when nights average −10.3°C.
How much rain and snow does Paris 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 Paris itself?
No, they come from Kitchener/Waterloo; ECCC keeps no 1991–2020 normals in Paris itself.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Paris →
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).