Photo: Peter Giesbrecht · CC BY-SA 3.0Few Canadian towns have warmer summer afternoons than South-West Oxford
In January the night’s low is typically −8.9°C. Rain or snow is most frequent in July and least in February. Winters are mild: January nights here are milder than in 78% of Canadian towns. Wet days, with 1 mm of rain or snow or more, come about 118 times a year.
Borrowed figures: South-West Oxford has no normals station, so these come from Delhi, 24 km south-east.
A year in South-West Oxford at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about South-West Oxford’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in South-West Oxford feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
About 140 frosts and 133 warm days a year
The frost season runs October to May, and January freezes nearly every night. On about 5 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
About 965 mm of rain and snow a year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 152 cm in a normal year
Snow falls from October to April, most of all in January (about 43 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Delhi publishes no full year of snowfall, so these figures come from Strathroy-Mullifarry, 70 km away.
Heating a home in South-West Oxford
93% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: November to April.
The count adds up, day by day, how far the mean temperature falls short of 18°C. Homes here need less heating than 80% of Canadian towns.
Living with South-West Oxford’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
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 →Bitter wind chill, under −20, comes on about 13 days a year.
On some 61 days a year the humidex climbs past 30.
Thirty years of averages say little about one bad storm; South-West Oxford’s hazards page does.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Delhi
ECCC builds the Delhi normals from 2 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 24 km south-east |
| Station altitude | 232 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Strathroy-Mullifarry, 70 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −34.1°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 36.3°C |
| Average wind | 8.3 km/h on average, most often from the south-west |
| Next-nearest location | London, 30 km |
How South-West Oxford 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
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on South-West Oxford’s own would show the same figures). The one place listed is 9 km from South-West Oxford, the nearest with figures.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| South-West Oxford Delhi | 27.5°C | −8.9°C | 965 mm |
| Ingersoll 9.1 km · London | 26.6°C 0.9°C cooler | −9.1°C about the same | 962 mm |
South-West Oxford 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 | −1.1°C | −8.9°C | −5.0°C | 81 mm | 43 cm |
| February | −0.1°C | −8.8°C | −4.5°C | 58 mm | 32 cm |
| March | 5.1°C | −4.4°C | 0.3°C | 71 mm | 20 cm |
| April | 12.6°C | 1.1°C | 6.8°C | 87 mm | 5 cm |
| May | 19.9°C | 7.2°C | 13.6°C | 88 mm | under 1 cm |
| June | 25.2°C | 12.8°C | 19.0°C | 82 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 27.5°C | 14.9°C | 21.2°C | 89 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 26.3°C | 14.0°C | 20.1°C | 80 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 22.4°C | 10.3°C | 16.4°C | 86 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 15.0°C | 4.9°C | 10.0°C | 86 mm | 2 cm |
| November | 8.0°C | −0.2°C | 3.9°C | 83 mm | 13 cm |
| December | 1.9°C | −5.0°C | −1.7°C | 76 mm | 37 cm |
| Year | 13.6°C | 3.2°C | 8.4°C | 965 mm | 152 cm |
In March, anything from −25.9°C to 27.3°C
Bars run from each month’s record low to its record high over 1991–2020; February is the month whose average wanders most from year to year (±3.1°C around −4.5°C), June the one that wanders least (±1.0°C).
Where South-West Oxford’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals at Delhi, the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals.
- 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: the 2,500-plus towns and neighbourhoods of Canada, each read from its closest normals location; whole cities and reserves aren’t counted.
- Not on this page: hours of sunshine, missing from the 1991–2020 normals, and a height correction: the town has no elevation on file.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about South-West Oxford’s climate
How warm does South-West Oxford get in summer?
Expect highs near 27.5°C in July, the hottest month on average.
How cold does South-West Oxford get in winter?
Midwinter means January, when a typical night reaches −8.9°C.
How much rain and snow does South-West Oxford get?
965 mm a year counting snow as water. The wettest month is July (89 mm); the driest, February (58 mm).
Are these figures for South-West Oxford itself?
They are borrowed from Delhi, the nearest place to South-West Oxford where ECCC publishes 1991–2020 normals.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for South-West Oxford →
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