Frost comes to Lansing-Westgate less often than to 89% of Canadian towns
Expect July afternoons of about 27.0°C. From frozen January to warm July, readings climb 34°C. In July, afternoons here are warmer than in 86% of Canadian towns. Wet days, with 1 mm of rain or snow or more, come about 104 times a year.
Read at Toronto (City), 9.7 km south: ECCC’s normals for 1991–2020.
A year in Lansing-Westgate at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Lansing-Westgate’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Lansing-Westgate feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
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). About 14 days a year top 30°C.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
Rain and melted snow: about 823 mm a year
The most falls in June, the least in March.
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), 12 km away (Toronto (City) records no complete year of it).
Heating a home in Lansing-Westgate
94% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: November to April.
Think of it as a year’s worth of daily shortfalls below 18°C, added up. Over a year, a home here needs less heating than 90% of Canadian towns.
Living with Lansing-Westgate’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
From about 11 April to 6 November the garden is usually clear of frost, some 208 days.
The comfortable months for a day outside, highs of 17–27°C and nights of 8°C or more: May, Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Humid summer days, the humidex above 30, number about 59 a year.
Thirty years of averages say little about one bad storm; Lansing-Westgate’s hazards page does.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Toronto (City)
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for Toronto (City) are 2 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 9.7 km south |
| Station altitude | 113 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Toronto Buttonville (Airport), 12 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −25.9°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 38.2°C |
| Next-nearest location | Toronto Buttonville (Airport), 12 km |
How Lansing-Westgate compares
Compared with 2,611 towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more across Canada; the dots mark the other normals locations in Ontario.
Nearby towns’ climate
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Lansing-Westgate’s would only repeat its figures.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lansing-Westgate Toronto (City) | 27.0°C | −6.7°C | 823 mm |
| Avondale 1.3 km · Toronto (City) | 27.0°C about the same | −6.7°C about the same | 823 mm |
| Yonge-Doris 1.8 km · Toronto Buttonville (Airport) | 27.3°C about the same | −10.1°C 3.4°C colder | 862 mm |
Lansing-Westgate 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 |
January strays furthest from its normal year to year, by 2.7°C; June the least
Each bar spans a month’s coldest and warmest readings over thirty years; March’s run from −23.1°C in 2003 to 25.7°C in 1998.
Where Lansing-Westgate’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals, Toronto (City): the nearest of its locations with every month’s temperatures.
- Other locations: precipitation and snowfall come from the nearest location that publishes all twelve months of them, as named above.
- Comparisons: every place of 2,500+ in Canada but the city hubs and the reserves, each on its nearest ECCC location.
- 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 Lansing-Westgate’s climate
How warm does Lansing-Westgate get in summer?
At its warmest, in July, the normal high is 27.0°C.
How cold does Lansing-Westgate get in winter?
Midwinter means January, when a typical night reaches −6.7°C.
How much rain and snow does Lansing-Westgate get?
Precipitation totals 823 mm a year, with June the wettest month (82 mm) and March the driest (53 mm).
Are these figures for Lansing-Westgate itself?
They are the normals for Toronto (City), measured just outside Lansing-Westgate itself.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Lansing-Westgate →
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