Sables-Spanish Rivers has some of the coolest summers among Canadian towns
The coldest hours of a January night bottom out at −12.9°C on average. Some 35°C separates winter nights from summer afternoons. By frosts alone, it ranks gentler than 71% of Canadian towns. Windshields need scraping on about 144 mornings a year, the days the air reaches 0°C or below.
Sables-Spanish Rivers has no ECCC normals station of its own: every figure here comes from Killarney, 47 km south-east.
A year in Sables-Spanish Rivers at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Sables-Spanish Rivers’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Sables-Spanish Rivers feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
About 144 frosts a year
The frost season runs October to April, and January freezes nearly every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 11 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
912 mm of precipitation in a typical year
The most falls in September, the least in February. Some 122 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Killarney publishes no full year of precipitation, so these figures come from Sudbury, 104 km away.
Living with Sables-Spanish Rivers’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
The outdoor season by the averages is Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep, with highs of 17–27°C and lows of 8°C or more.
Parks & trails →Wind chill falls below −20 on about 40 days a year: cover skin and dress in layers.
Humid summer days, the humidex above 30, number about 8 a year.
Thirty years of averages say little about one bad storm; Sables-Spanish Rivers’s hazards page does.
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 | 47 km south-east |
| Station altitude | 196 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Sudbury, 104 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, 57 km |
How Sables-Spanish Rivers 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
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Sables-Spanish Rivers’s would only repeat its figures. The nearest place to Sables-Spanish Rivers with figures is 15 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sables-Spanish Rivers Killarney | 22.4°C | −12.9°C | 912 mm |
| Sagamok 15 km · Gore Bay | 24.4°C 2.0°C warmer | −13.6°C 0.7°C colder | 912 mm |
Sables-Spanish Rivers weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean and precipitation.
| 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 |
The month with the widest range: March, −28.3°C to 16.3°C
January is the least predictable month: about two years in three its average lands within 3.6°C of the normal, −8.8°C. June is the steadiest, within 1.0°C.
Where Sables-Spanish Rivers’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals, Killarney, 1991–2020.
- Other locations: a location missing months of precipitation or snow is filled from the nearest that has them all, never mixed month by month.
- 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: snowfall (no location within 100 km publishes a full year of it), sunshine (none for 1991–2020) and an altitude correction.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Sables-Spanish Rivers’s climate
How warm does Sables-Spanish Rivers get in summer?
Summer peaks in July: a typical afternoon reaches 22.4°C.
How cold does Sables-Spanish Rivers get in winter?
A typical January night falls to −12.9°C, the year’s low point.
How much rain and snow does Sables-Spanish Rivers get?
A normal year brings 912 mm, snow included as water: September is wettest at 103 mm, February driest at 51 mm.
Are these figures for Sables-Spanish Rivers itself?
Only indirectly: the readings are made at Killarney, outside Sables-Spanish Rivers.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Sables-Spanish Rivers →
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).