Photo: Joe Mabel (on Flickr as Joe Mabel from Seattle, US) · CC BY-SA 3.0January in Wasaga Beach stays gentler than in 81% of Canadian towns
The warmest part of a July day comes in at 25.3°C on average. Temperatures cover 34°C across the year, low to high. By precipitation alone, it ranks drier than 65% of Canadian towns. Frost comes on about 131 days a year, so leave time to clear the car.
Borrowed figures: Wasaga Beach has no normals station, so these come from Collingwood, 14 km west.
A year in Wasaga Beach at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Wasaga Beach’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Wasaga Beach feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
131 frost days and 111 days above 20°C a year
From October to April frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. About 10 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 793 mm a year
June is the wettest month and February the driest. About 115 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
ECCC’s Collingwood normals leave out precipitation and snow; both come from Egbert here, 36 km away.
About 174 cm of snow a year
From October to April snow is likely; December is the peak, at about 42 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Heating a home in Wasaga Beach
91% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: November to April.
Measured against 18°C: each day’s shortfall in mean temperature, added over twelve months. Over a year, a home here needs less heating than 76% of Canadian towns.
Living with Wasaga Beach’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
The comfortable months for a day outside, highs of 17–27°C and nights of 8°C or more: Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Plan for about 18 days a year with a wind chill below −20.
The humidex tops 30 on about 46 days a year: muggy days to plan around.
Thirty-year normals hide the storms and the extremes: the hazards page has Wasaga Beach’s risks.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Collingwood
Collingwood is one of the 450 places where ECCC publishes 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 14 km west |
| Station altitude | 178 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Egbert, 36 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −29.1°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 36.5°C |
| Average wind | 12.1 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Egbert, 36 km |
How Wasaga Beach 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 Wasaga Beach’s would only repeat its figures. Wasaga Beach has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 20–35 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wasaga Beach Collingwood | 25.3°C | −8.7°C | 793 mm |
| Springwater 20 km · Egbert | 26.0°C 0.7°C warmer | −11.3°C 2.6°C colder | 793 mm |
| Tay 35 km · Muskoka | 25.3°C about the same | −15.3°C 6.6°C colder | 1,062 mm |
Wasaga Beach 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 | −1.3°C | −8.7°C | −5.0°C | 55 mm | 40 cm |
| February | −0.6°C | −8.4°C | −4.5°C | 45 mm | 33 cm |
| March | 3.7°C | −4.4°C | −0.3°C | 48 mm | 26 cm |
| April | 10.1°C | 1.2°C | 5.6°C | 62 mm | 9 cm |
| May | 17.2°C | 7.2°C | 12.2°C | 74 mm | under 1 cm |
| June | 22.4°C | 12.7°C | 17.6°C | 83 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.3°C | 16.2°C | 20.8°C | 78 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.9°C | 15.7°C | 20.3°C | 83 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 21.4°C | 12.0°C | 16.7°C | 72 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 14.3°C | 6.3°C | 10.3°C | 65 mm | 3 cm |
| November | 7.6°C | 0.8°C | 4.2°C | 72 mm | 22 cm |
| December | 1.6°C | −4.7°C | −1.6°C | 58 mm | 42 cm |
| Year | 12.2°C | 3.8°C | 8.0°C | 793 mm | 174 cm |
The month with the widest range: March, −26.7°C to 27.0°C
Two years in three, January’s average falls within 2.8°C of its normal of −5.0°C; August keeps to within 1.1°C.
Where Wasaga Beach’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: 1991–2020 normals for Collingwood from ECCC’s climate data site, the nearest location with every month of temperature.
- Other locations: where a location publishes no full year of precipitation or snowfall, the nearest one that does supplies it, named beside those figures.
- Comparisons: a pool of Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, read alike; whole cities and reserves stay out of it.
- 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 Wasaga Beach’s climate
How warm does Wasaga Beach get in summer?
On a normal day in July the thermometer climbs to 25.3°C, the warmest of the year.
How cold does Wasaga Beach get in winter?
Winter bottoms out in January, with lows near −8.7°C.
How much rain and snow does Wasaga Beach get?
Precipitation totals 793 mm a year, with June the wettest month (83 mm) and February the driest (45 mm).
Are these figures for Wasaga Beach itself?
The figures are ECCC’s for Collingwood; Wasaga Beach has no normals station.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Wasaga Beach →
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).