Morningside has warmer summer afternoons than 91% of Canadian towns
In January the night’s low is typically −10.1°C. Some 37°C separates winter nights from summer afternoons. Frost is rarer than in 70% of Canadian towns: about 145 nights a year drop below freezing. Comfortable outdoor weather, highs of 22–26°C, belongs to June, August and September.
Read at Toronto Buttonville (Airport), 16 km north-west: ECCC’s normals for 1991–2020.
A year in Morningside at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Morningside’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Morningside feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on 145 days, 20°C on 126
The frost season runs October to May, and January freezes nearly every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 6 nights a year.
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 brings the most rain and snow; February, the least. Some 113 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 146 cm in a normal year
Snow falls from November to April, most of all in January (about 40 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Morningside
93% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
A heating degree day is one degree of shortfall below 18°C for one day, summed over the year. That means homes here need less heating than 74% of Canadian towns.
Living with Morningside’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Between the last frost, near 3 May, and the first, near 13 October, lie about 161 frost-free days.
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 →Winter brings about 22 days with a wind chill below −20.
Plan shade and water for about 55 days a year above 30 on the humidex.
For blizzards, floods and wildfire, turn to Morningside’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Toronto Buttonville (Airport)
Toronto Buttonville (Airport) is a composite: ECCC joins 3 stations’ readings to make its 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 16 km north-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), 20 km |
How Morningside 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
Places around Morningside whose figures come from another normals location. No closer places have figures: these lie 10–25 km from Morningside.
Morningside weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and 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
From one year to the next, January’s average typically shifts by 3.1°C around its normal of −6.0°C, the widest of any month, while June’s shifts by 1.2°C.
Where Morningside’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals for Toronto Buttonville (Airport), the nearest location with a full year of temperatures.
- 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 Morningside’s climate
How warm does Morningside get in summer?
Midsummer means July, with afternoons near 27.3°C on a typical day.
How cold does Morningside get in winter?
The year’s coldest nights belong to January, at about −10.1°C.
How much rain and snow does Morningside get?
Some 862 mm falls in a year. Most of it comes in June (87 mm), the least in February (51 mm).
How long does snow stay on the ground?
In a normal winter there are about 76 days with at least 1 cm of snow lying.
Are these figures for Morningside itself?
They are the normals for Toronto Buttonville (Airport), measured just outside Morningside itself.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Morningside →
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