Photo: WolfFang1990 · CC BY-SA 4.0Timmins has some of the coldest winter nights among Canadian towns
Expect July afternoons of about 24.4°C. Its July afternoons stay fresher than in 67% of Canadian towns. Seasons differ by 47°C, from the coldest nights to the warmest afternoons. Windshields need scraping on about 207 mornings a year, the days the air reaches 0°C or below.
Figures: ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals at Timmins/Victor Power (10 km north-west).
A year in Timmins at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Timmins’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Timmins feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
207 frost days and 92 days above 20°C a year
From September to June frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. Some 56 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
About 796 mm of rain and snow a year
The most falls in October, the least in February. On about 129 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 308 cm in a normal year
From October to May snow is likely; December is the peak, at about 64 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Timmins
88% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
Think of it as a year’s worth of daily shortfalls below 18°C, added up. Over a year, a home here needs more heating than 98% of Canadian towns.
Living with Timmins’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
The frost-free stretch runs from about 7 June to about 7 September, some 91 days in a normal year.
The comfortable months for a day outside, highs of 17–27°C and nights of 8°C or more: Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →About 85 days a year bring a wind chill under −20, when bare skin chills fast.
Expect around 22 sticky days a year with the humidex above 30.
What averages leave out, the floods and ice storms, is on Timmins’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Timmins/Victor Power
ECCC builds the Timmins/Victor Power normals from 3 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 10 km north-west |
| Station altitude | 294 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −43.9°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 38.8°C |
| Average wind | 11.7 km/h on average, most often from the south |
| Next-nearest location | Kirkland Lake, 104 km |
How Timmins 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
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Timmins’s own would show the same figures). No closer places have figures: these lie 63–113 km from Timmins.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timmins Timmins/Victor Power | 24.4°C | −22.3°C | 796 mm |
| Black River-Matheson 63 km · Kirkland Lake | 24.0°C about the same | −21.9°C about the same | 787 mm |
| Smooth Rock Falls 91 km · Kapuskasing | 24.1°C about the same | −23.3°C 1.0°C colder | 806 mm |
Timmins 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 | −10.4°C | −22.3°C | −16.4°C | 49 mm | 59 cm |
| February | −7.6°C | −21.0°C | −14.4°C | 40 mm | 48 cm |
| March | −0.7°C | −14.4°C | −7.5°C | 48 mm | 43 cm |
| April | 7.2°C | −5.3°C | 0.9°C | 62 mm | 25 cm |
| May | 16.8°C | 2.5°C | 9.7°C | 70 mm | 3 cm |
| June | 22.4°C | 8.1°C | 15.3°C | 80 mm | under 1 cm |
| July | 24.4°C | 10.9°C | 17.7°C | 79 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 22.8°C | 9.6°C | 16.2°C | 76 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 17.8°C | 5.5°C | 11.7°C | 81 mm | 1 cm |
| October | 9.1°C | −0.1°C | 4.5°C | 86 mm | 14 cm |
| November | 0.8°C | −7.1°C | −3.2°C | 69 mm | 51 cm |
| December | −6.5°C | −15.9°C | −11.2°C | 57 mm | 64 cm |
| Year | 8.0°C | −4.1°C | 1.9°C | 796 mm | 308 cm |
January strays furthest from its normal year to year, by 3.7°C; July the least
March has the widest record range, −36.5°C in 2003 to 27.9°C in 2012; the tick on each bar is the month’s normal.
Where Timmins’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals, Timmins/Victor Power, 1991–2020.
- 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: 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 Timmins’s climate
How warm does Timmins get in summer?
Highs reach 24.4°C on an average July day; no month is warmer.
How cold does Timmins get in winter?
In January, the coldest month, the typical low is −22.3°C.
How much rain and snow does Timmins get?
The year adds up to 796 mm. October is the peak month (86 mm) and February the low one (40 mm).
How long does snow stay on the ground?
Snow covers the ground, 1 cm or more, on about 164 days a year.
Are these figures for Timmins itself?
Yes: they are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Timmins/Victor Power, a location inside Timmins.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Timmins →
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).