Danforth gets fewer frosts than 89% of Canadian towns
The warmest part of a July day comes in at 27.0°C on average. June is the wettest month, March the driest. By July afternoons alone, it runs hotter than 86% of Canadian towns. About 104 days a year bring 1 mm of precipitation or more.
Read at Toronto (City), 5.9 km west: ECCC’s normals for 1991–2020.
A year in Danforth at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Danforth’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Danforth feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
101 frost days and 124 days above 20°C a year
Frost comes from November to April, most of all in January (about 26 nights). Heat of 30°C or more comes on about 14 days a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
About 823 mm of rain and snow a year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
146 cm of snow in a typical year
Expect snow from November to April, with about 40 cm in January, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snowfall: Toronto Buttonville (Airport), 20 km away (Toronto (City) records no complete year of it).
Heating a home in Danforth
94% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: November to April.
ECCC sums, over the year, how many degrees each day’s average falls short of 18°C. A house here needs less heating than 90% of Canadian towns.
Living with Danforth’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Plant out after about 11 April; the first frost of autumn usually arrives near 6 November, leaving roughly 208 days without frost.
Plan time outside for May, Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep: highs of 17–27°C and nights no colder than 8°C.
Parks & trails →Humid heat, a humidex over 30, comes on about 59 days a year.
What averages leave out, the floods and ice storms, is on Danforth’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Toronto (City)
ECCC builds the Toronto (City) normals from 2 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 5.9 km west |
| Station altitude | 113 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Toronto Buttonville (Airport), 20 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −25.9°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 38.2°C |
| Next-nearest location | Toronto (Island), 8.3 km |
How Danforth 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 Danforth’s own would show the same figures). Distances here run 20–29 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Danforth.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Danforth Toronto (City) | 27.0°C | −6.7°C | 823 mm |
| Markham 20 km · Toronto Buttonville (Airport) | 27.3°C about the same | −10.1°C 3.4°C colder | 862 mm |
| Pickering 25 km · Oshawa | 25.7°C 1.3°C cooler | −8.9°C 2.2°C colder | 906 mm |
| Mississauga 29 km · Toronto Pearson (Airport) | 27.4°C about the same | −8.9°C 2.2°C colder | 807 mm |
Danforth weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −0.3°C | −6.7°C | −3.5°C | 65 mm | 40 cm |
| February | 0.6°C | −6.0°C | −2.7°C | 54 mm | 34 cm |
| March | 5.1°C | −1.8°C | 1.7°C | 53 mm | 20 cm |
| April | 11.7°C | 3.9°C | 7.8°C | 78 mm | 7 cm |
| May | 18.8°C | 10.0°C | 14.5°C | 76 mm | under 1 cm |
| June | 24.2°C | 15.3°C | 19.8°C | 82 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 27.0°C | 18.1°C | 22.5°C | 77 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 26.1°C | 17.7°C | 21.9°C | 72 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 22.0°C | 13.8°C | 17.9°C | 69 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 14.6°C | 7.7°C | 11.2°C | 69 mm | 1 cm |
| November | 8.1°C | 2.3°C | 5.2°C | 71 mm | 12 cm |
| December | 2.6°C | −2.7°C | −0.1°C | 58 mm | 33 cm |
| Year | 13.4°C | 6.0°C | 9.7°C | 823 mm | 146 cm |
The month with the widest range: March, −23.1°C to 25.7°C
Two years in three, January’s average falls within 2.7°C of its normal of −3.5°C; June keeps to within 1.2°C.
Where Danforth’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals for Toronto (City), the nearest location with a full year of temperatures.
- 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: every Canadian town and neighbourhood of 2,500 or more, each read from its own nearest location; city totals and reserves are left out.
- Not on this page: sunshine, not in ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals, and the effect of the town’s height, for which there is no figure.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Danforth’s climate
How warm does Danforth get in summer?
A normal July afternoon tops out at about 27.0°C, the year’s high point.
How cold does Danforth get in winter?
Expect nights around −6.7°C in January; no month is colder.
How much rain and snow does Danforth get?
823 mm a year counting snow as water. The wettest month is June (82 mm); the driest, March (53 mm).
Are these figures for Danforth itself?
Nearly: Toronto (City), the location behind them, sits just beyond Danforth’s boundary.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Danforth →
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).