Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0More snow falls on Perry than on 90% of Canadian towns: about 278 cm a year
July afternoons average 25.3°C. The wettest month is October; the driest is February. It is a wet place: more rain and snow fall here than on 79% of Canadian towns. About 141 days a year bring 1 mm of precipitation or more.
Far-off figures: ECCC’s closest normals for Perry come from Muskoka, 63 km south, so take them as the area’s climate.
A year in Perry at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Perry’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Perry feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
About 175 frosts and 109 warm days a year
The frost season runs September to May, and January freezes nearly every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 27 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
About 1,062 mm of rain and snow a year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 278 cm in a normal year
Expect snow from October to May, with about 67 cm in January, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
ECCC’s Muskoka normals leave snowfall out; the figures here come from Haliburton, 82 km away.
Heating a home in Perry
90% 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.
Living with Perry’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Plan time outside for Jun, Jul and Aug: highs of 17–27°C and nights no colder than 8°C.
Parks & trails →A typical year is calm by definition; Perry’s hazards page covers the exceptions.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Muskoka
ECCC builds the Muskoka normals from 3 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 63 km south |
| Station altitude | 282 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Haliburton, 82 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −40.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.2°C |
| Average wind | 10.7 km/h |
| Next-nearest location | Haliburton, 82 km |
How Perry 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 Perry whose figures come from another normals location. The one place listed is 23 km from Perry, the nearest with figures.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perry Muskoka | 25.3°C | −15.3°C | 1,062 mm |
| Strong 23 km · North Bay | 24.3°C 1.0°C cooler | −17.3°C 2.0°C colder | 1,020 mm |
Perry weather by month
Month by month, 1991–2020: the usual high, low and mean, the rain and snow, and the snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −4.6°C | −15.3°C | −10.0°C | 92 mm | 67 cm |
| February | −3.1°C | −15.1°C | −9.1°C | 56 mm | 50 cm |
| March | 2.5°C | −9.0°C | −3.3°C | 72 mm | 36 cm |
| April | 10.4°C | −1.6°C | 4.4°C | 79 mm | 21 cm |
| May | 18.4°C | 4.7°C | 11.5°C | 93 mm | 2 cm |
| June | 23.1°C | 10.1°C | 16.7°C | 86 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.3°C | 12.8°C | 19.1°C | 100 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.4°C | 11.8°C | 18.1°C | 82 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.1°C | 7.5°C | 13.8°C | 102 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 12.5°C | 2.2°C | 7.4°C | 111 mm | 5 cm |
| November | 5.1°C | −3.4°C | 0.9°C | 103 mm | 33 cm |
| December | −1.0°C | −9.7°C | −5.4°C | 87 mm | 65 cm |
| Year | 11.1°C | −0.4°C | 5.3°C | 1,062 mm | 278 cm |
From −31.9°C to 26.7°C: March’s coldest and warmest days since 1991
Year to year, January varies most (a standard deviation of 3.3°C around −10.0°C) and June least (1.2°C).
Where Perry’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals at Muskoka, the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals.
- 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: 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, 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 Perry’s climate
How warm does Perry get in summer?
Highs reach 25.3°C on an average July day; no month is warmer.
How cold does Perry get in winter?
January nights average −15.3°C, the coldest of the year.
How much rain and snow does Perry get?
The year adds up to 1,062 mm. October is the peak month (111 mm) and February the low one (56 mm).
Are these figures for Perry itself?
Not really: Muskoka, the closest location with normals, lies well away from Perry.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Perry →
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).