Photo: Rick Harris from Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Weather without surprises: Trent Lakes keeps close to the norm for Canadian towns
A typical year brings 840 mm of rain and melted snow, with July afternoons around 26.6°C and January nights around −12.8°C. A year here swings 39°C from midwinter lows to midsummer highs. By July afternoons alone, it runs hotter than 70% of Canadian towns. About 114 days a year bring 1 mm of precipitation or more.
Borrowed figures: Trent Lakes has no normals station, so these come from Peterborough, 40 km south.
A year in Trent Lakes at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Trent Lakes’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Trent Lakes feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
169 frost days and 121 days above 20°C a year
Frost comes from September to May; in January almost every night freezes. Some 15 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
840 mm of precipitation in a typical year
The most falls in June, the least in February.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
About 158 cm of snow a year
Snow falls from October to April, most of all in January (about 45 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Trent Lakes
91% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Warm days count for nothing; each colder day adds how far its mean sits below 18°C.
Living with Trent Lakes’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Tender plants are usually safe from around 16 May until frost returns near 24 September: about 130 days.
Plan time outside for Jun, Jul and Aug: highs of 17–27°C and nights no colder than 8°C.
Parks & trails →Winter brings about 29 days with a wind chill below −20.
Humid heat, a humidex over 30, comes on about 54 days a year.
Thirty years of averages say little about one bad storm; Trent Lakes’s hazards page does.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Peterborough
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for Peterborough are 3 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 40 km south |
| Station altitude | 191 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −37.6°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 36.2°C |
| Average wind | 10.6 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Haliburton, 50 km |
How Trent Lakes 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 Trent Lakes’s own would show the same figures). No closer places have figures: these lie 26–50 km from Trent Lakes.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trent Lakes Peterborough | 26.6°C | −12.8°C | 840 mm |
| North Kawartha 26 km · Haliburton | 25.3°C 1.3°C cooler | −16.0°C 3.2°C colder | 1,106 mm |
| Havelock 50 km · Trenton | 26.5°C about the same | −11.2°C 1.6°C milder | 941 mm |
Trent Lakes weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −2.6°C | −12.8°C | −7.6°C | 67 mm | 45 cm |
| February | −1.8°C | −12.8°C | −7.3°C | 42 mm | 27 cm |
| March | 4.1°C | −7.1°C | −1.5°C | 54 mm | 28 cm |
| April | 11.6°C | −0.3°C | 5.7°C | 73 mm | 7 cm |
| May | 19.3°C | 5.6°C | 12.5°C | 79 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 24.0°C | 10.7°C | 17.4°C | 88 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 26.6°C | 12.8°C | 19.7°C | 69 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.5°C | 11.7°C | 18.6°C | 78 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 21.4°C | 7.3°C | 14.4°C | 76 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 13.9°C | 2.0°C | 8.0°C | 75 mm | 1 cm |
| November | 6.6°C | −2.9°C | 1.9°C | 76 mm | 17 cm |
| December | 0.4°C | −8.3°C | −3.9°C | 64 mm | 33 cm |
| Year | 12.4°C | 0.5°C | 6.5°C | 840 mm | 158 cm |
A March here can run from −31.4°C to 26.0°C
Two years in three, January’s average falls within 3.3°C of its normal of −7.6°C; June keeps to within 1.1°C.
Where Trent Lakes’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals for Peterborough, the nearest location with a full year of temperatures.
- Comparisons: Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of at least 2,500, each placed by its nearest location (city totals and reserves excluded).
- 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 Trent Lakes’s climate
How warm does Trent Lakes get in summer?
Midsummer means July, with afternoons near 26.6°C on a typical day.
How cold does Trent Lakes get in winter?
Overnight lows average −12.8°C in January, the coldest month.
How much rain and snow does Trent Lakes get?
Count on roughly 840 mm a year, heaviest in June (88 mm) and lightest in February (42 mm).
How long does snow stay on the ground?
Roughly 99 days a year start with snow cover of 1 cm or more.
Are these figures for Trent Lakes itself?
Not quite: they come from Peterborough, the closest ECCC normals location to Trent Lakes.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Trent Lakes →
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).