Morningside Heights has warmer summer afternoons than 91% of Canadian towns
Midwinter brings lows of about −10.1°C. Temperatures cover 37°C across the year, low to high. Only about 145 nights a year bring a frost, fewer than in 70% of Canadian towns. Plan for rain or snow on about 113 days a year, the days with 1 mm or more.
1991–2020 normals from ECCC’s Toronto Buttonville (Airport) location, 14 km west.
A year in Morningside Heights at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Morningside Heights’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Morningside Heights feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
Frost on 145 days, 20°C on 126
From October to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. Some 6 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 862 mm of rain and snow a year
June is the wettest month and February the driest.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 146 cm in a normal year
Expect snow from November to April, with about 40 cm in January, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Morningside Heights
93% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Each day the mean sits under 18°C adds its shortfall; a year’s total is its heating degree days. By this count, homes here need less heating than 74% of Canadian towns.
Living with Morningside Heights’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
The frost-free stretch runs from about 3 May to about 13 October, some 161 days in a normal year.
Afternoons of 17–27°C and nights of at least 8°C arrive in Jun, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Expect around 22 days a year when the wind chill sinks below −20.
Count on some 55 humid days a year with the humidex past 30.
Ice storms, floods and heat waves are risks, not averages: they are on Morningside Heights’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Toronto Buttonville (Airport)
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for Toronto Buttonville (Airport) are 3 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 14 km west |
| Station altitude | 198 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −35.2°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 37.8°C |
| Average wind | 12.2 km/h on average, most often from the north |
| Next-nearest location | Toronto (City), 23 km |
How Morningside Heights 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
Places around Morningside Heights whose figures come from another normals location. Morningside Heights has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 8–30 km out.
Morningside Heights 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 | −1.7°C | −10.1°C | −6.0°C | 64 mm | 40 cm |
| February | −1.0°C | −10.1°C | −5.6°C | 51 mm | 34 cm |
| March | 4.6°C | −5.0°C | −0.2°C | 52 mm | 20 cm |
| April | 11.8°C | 1.2°C | 6.5°C | 79 mm | 7 cm |
| May | 19.3°C | 7.4°C | 13.4°C | 80 mm | under 1 cm |
| June | 24.6°C | 13.0°C | 18.8°C | 87 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 27.3°C | 15.6°C | 21.5°C | 85 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 26.3°C | 14.8°C | 20.6°C | 72 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 21.9°C | 10.4°C | 16.2°C | 83 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 14.3°C | 4.3°C | 9.4°C | 71 mm | 1 cm |
| November | 7.4°C | −0.8°C | 3.3°C | 77 mm | 12 cm |
| December | 1.5°C | −5.8°C | −2.2°C | 63 mm | 33 cm |
| Year | 13.0°C | 2.9°C | 8.0°C | 862 mm | 146 cm |
March has run from −25.6°C to 26.3°C in thirty years
The month to count on least is January: one year in three its average strays more than 3.1°C from −6.0°C. June moves least, typically by 1.2°C.
Where Morningside Heights’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s normals for Toronto Buttonville (Airport), 1991–2020, chosen as the nearest location with a full temperature record.
- Comparisons: all Canadian places of 2,500 or more except city totals and reserves, each read the same way.
- Not on this page: sunshine, absent from every 1991–2020 location, and an altitude correction, for want of the town’s own elevation.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Morningside Heights’s climate
How warm does Morningside Heights get in summer?
Of all twelve months, July has the warmest afternoons, about 27.3°C.
How cold does Morningside Heights get in winter?
Deep winter means January, when nights average −10.1°C.
How much rain and snow does Morningside Heights get?
The yearly total is about 862 mm. June gets 87 mm, the most of any month; February gets 51 mm, the least.
How long does snow stay on the ground?
A layer of at least 1 cm stays down on about 76 days a year.
Are these figures for Morningside Heights itself?
Nearly: Toronto Buttonville (Airport), the location behind them, sits just beyond Morningside Heights’s boundary.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Morningside Heights →
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).