Photo: Andre Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 4.0Wawa sits near the bottom of Canadian towns for July heat
The coldest hours of a January night bottom out at −19.6°C on average. By frosts alone, it ranks colder than 91% of Canadian towns. Winter and summer sit 41°C apart. Wet days, with 1 mm of rain or snow or more, come about 128 times a year.
1991–2020 normals from ECCC’s Wawa station, 2.6 km south.
A year in Wawa at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Wawa’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Wawa feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
203 frost days and 67 days above 20°C a year
Frost comes from September to June; in January almost every night freezes. Some 43 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
967 mm of precipitation in a typical year
September brings the most rain and snow; February, the least.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
About 314 cm of snow a year
Expect snow from October to May, with about 74 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 Wawa
85% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
Heating degree days total each day’s gap between its mean temperature and 18°C. A house here needs more heating than 93% of Canadian towns.
Living with Wawa’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Tender plants are usually safe from around 2 June until frost returns near 20 September: about 109 days.
For long days outdoors, Jul and Aug bring highs of 17–27°C and lows of 8°C or more.
Parks & trails →About 58 days a year bring a wind chill under −20, when bare skin chills fast.
Summer brings about 10 days when the humidex passes 30.
Storms, floods and heat waves sit outside these normals; Wawa’s hazards page covers them.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Wawa
Wawa is a composite: ECCC joins 4 stations’ readings to make its 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 2.6 km south |
| Station altitude | 288 m |
| Completeness | at least 25 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −41.4°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 34.1°C |
| Average wind | 9.1 km/h on average, most often from the south-west |
| Next-nearest location | Chapleau, 108 km |
How Wawa 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 Wawa’s would only repeat its figures. Distances here run 104–148 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Wawa.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wawa | 20.8°C | −19.6°C | 967 mm |
| Chapleau 104 km · Chapleau | 23.6°C 2.8°C warmer | −21.6°C 2.0°C colder | 841 mm |
| Algoma, Unorganized, North Part 140 km · Sault Ste Marie | 24.2°C 3.4°C warmer | −14.5°C 5.1°C milder | 915 mm |
| Marathon 142 km · Geraldton | 23.6°C 2.8°C warmer | −24.7°C 5.1°C colder | 762 mm |
Wawa weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −7.7°C | −19.6°C | −13.7°C | 58 mm | 74 cm |
| February | −5.9°C | −18.3°C | −12.1°C | 44 mm | 55 cm |
| March | −0.1°C | −12.5°C | −6.3°C | 53 mm | 39 cm |
| April | 6.9°C | −4.6°C | 1.2°C | 76 mm | 23 cm |
| May | 14.6°C | 1.7°C | 8.2°C | 86 mm | 4 cm |
| June | 19.6°C | 6.8°C | 13.2°C | 80 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 20.8°C | 9.6°C | 15.2°C | 92 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 20.9°C | 10.1°C | 15.5°C | 91 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 16.9°C | 6.3°C | 11.6°C | 125 mm | under 1 cm |
| October | 9.7°C | 0.8°C | 5.3°C | 116 mm | 8 cm |
| November | 2.4°C | −5.3°C | −1.5°C | 79 mm | 39 cm |
| December | −4.0°C | −13.5°C | −8.7°C | 67 mm | 72 cm |
| Year | 7.8°C | −3.2°C | 2.3°C | 967 mm | 314 cm |
Two years in three, January’s average lands within 3.5°C of normal, against the steadier August
Over 1991–2020, March saw both −37.1°C (2007) and 23.1°C (2012), the widest span of any month.
Where Wawa’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: 1991–2020 normals for Wawa from ECCC’s climate data site, the nearest location with every month of temperature.
- 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 Wawa’s climate
How warm does Wawa get in summer?
Highs reach 20.9°C on an average August day; no month is warmer.
How cold does Wawa get in winter?
In January, the coldest month, the typical low is −19.6°C.
How much rain and snow does Wawa get?
Around 967 mm a year in all, from 125 mm in September down to 44 mm in February.
How long does snow stay on the ground?
Count on about 152 days of snow cover a year, 1 cm or deeper.
Are these figures for Wawa itself?
Yes: ECCC’s normals station is inside Wawa itself.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Wawa →
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).