Frost comes to Trinity-Bellwoods less often than to 89% of Canadian towns
High summer brings afternoon highs near 27.0°C. The seasons are far apart: from a winter night to a summer afternoon the average spans 34°C. By July afternoons alone, it runs hotter than 86% of Canadian towns. An umbrella or a shovel earns its place on about 104 days a year with 1 mm or more.
Figures: ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Toronto (City) (2.4 km north-east).
A year in Trinity-Bellwoods at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Trinity-Bellwoods’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Trinity-Bellwoods 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
Frosts fall from November to April; January has the most, about 26. Some 14 days a year climb past 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
June brings the most rain and snow; March, the least.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
About 115 cm of snow a year
Expect snow from November to April, with about 32 cm in January, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snowfall: Toronto Pearson (Airport), 17 km away (Toronto (City) records no complete year of it).
Heating a home in Trinity-Bellwoods
94% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: November to April.
A heating degree day is one degree of shortfall below 18°C for one day, summed over the year. By this count, homes here need less heating than 90% of Canadian towns.
Living with Trinity-Bellwoods’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Seedlings can go out once the average last frost, around 11 April, has passed; autumn’s first, near 6 November, ends a season of about 208 days.
Highs of 17–27°C with nights of 8°C or more come in May, Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →The air feels heavier than 30 on the humidex for about 59 days a year.
What averages leave out, the floods and ice storms, is on Trinity-Bellwoods’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 | 2.4 km north-east |
| Station altitude | 113 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Toronto Pearson (Airport), 17 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −25.9°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 38.2°C |
| Next-nearest location | Toronto (Island), 2.8 km |
How Trinity-Bellwoods 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
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Trinity-Bellwoods’s would only repeat its figures.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity-Bellwoods Toronto (City) | 27.0°C | −6.7°C | 823 mm |
| Palmerston-Little Italy 0.8 km · Toronto (City) | 27.0°C about the same | −6.7°C about the same | 823 mm |
| West Queen West 1.0 km · Toronto (Island) | 25.3°C 1.7°C cooler | −7.1°C about the same | 823 mm |
Trinity-Bellwoods 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 | 32 cm |
| February | 0.6°C | −6.0°C | −2.7°C | 54 mm | 28 cm |
| March | 5.1°C | −1.8°C | 1.7°C | 53 mm | 17 cm |
| April | 11.7°C | 3.9°C | 7.8°C | 78 mm | 5 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 | under 1 cm |
| November | 8.1°C | 2.3°C | 5.2°C | 71 mm | 9 cm |
| December | 2.6°C | −2.7°C | −0.1°C | 58 mm | 24 cm |
| Year | 13.4°C | 6.0°C | 9.7°C | 823 mm | 115 cm |
In March, anything from −23.1°C to 25.7°C
Bars run from each month’s record low to its record high over 1991–2020; January is the month whose average wanders most from year to year (±2.7°C around −3.5°C), June the one that wanders least (±1.2°C).
Where Trinity-Bellwoods’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the Canadian Climate Normals, 1991–2020, at Toronto (City) (the closest location with all twelve months of temperatures).
- Other locations: precipitation and snowfall come from the nearest location that publishes all twelve months of them, as named above.
- Comparisons: the towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ across Canada, each on its nearest normals location, without the city totals or the reserves.
- Not on this page: hours of sunshine, missing from the 1991–2020 normals, and a height correction: the town has no elevation on file.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Trinity-Bellwoods’s climate
How warm does Trinity-Bellwoods get in summer?
Of all twelve months, July has the warmest afternoons, about 27.0°C.
How cold does Trinity-Bellwoods get in winter?
Expect nights around −6.7°C in January; no month is colder.
How much rain and snow does Trinity-Bellwoods 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 Trinity-Bellwoods itself?
They are the normals for Toronto (City), measured just outside Trinity-Bellwoods itself.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Trinity-Bellwoods →
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).