Photo: P199 · CC BY 3.0Wendover is wetter than 88% of Canadian towns: 1,178 mm of rain and snow a year
Sunny July days climb to about 26.2°C. By January nights alone, it runs colder than 78% of Canadian towns. The year swings widely: the coldest month’s nights and the warmest month’s afternoons are 43°C apart. About 143 days a year bring 1 mm of precipitation or more.
The nearest ECCC normals location to Wendover is Angers, 44 km west, and every figure on this page is its.
A year in Wendover at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Wendover’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Wendover feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on 179 days, 20°C on 112
Frost comes from September to May; in January almost every night freezes. Some 29 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
About 1,178 mm of rain and snow a year
The most falls in October, the least in February. The wettest of 871 towns of 2,500+ in Ontario.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Angers publishes no full year of precipitation or snowfall, so these figures, and the snow below, come from Lachute, 52 km away.
Snowfall: about 218 cm in a normal year
The snow season runs October to April; January brings the most, about 56 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Wendover
91% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Behind the figure: the degrees each day’s mean falls under 18°C, summed for the year. Homes here need more heating than 60% of Canadian towns.
Living with Wendover’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
From about 26 May to 22 September the garden is usually clear of frost, some 119 days.
For long days outdoors, Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep bring highs of 17–27°C and lows of 8°C or more.
Parks & trails →Bad-weather days, from blizzards to floods, get their own page for Wendover: the hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Angers
Angers is one of the 450 places where ECCC publishes 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 44 km west |
| Station altitude | 91 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Lachute, 52 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −39.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 36.0°C |
| Next-nearest location | Lachute, 52 km |
How Wendover 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 Wendover’s would only repeat its figures. Wendover has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 25–30 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wendover Angers | 26.2°C | −16.5°C | 1,178 mm |
| Vankleek Hill 25 km · Lachute | 26.5°C about the same | −14.7°C 1.8°C milder | 1,178 mm |
| Casselman 29 km · Cornwall | 27.3°C 1.1°C warmer | −11.8°C 4.7°C milder | 1,006 mm |
Wendover 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 | −5.6°C | −16.5°C | −11.2°C | 97 mm | 56 cm |
| February | −3.3°C | −15.5°C | −9.5°C | 72 mm | 47 cm |
| March | 2.3°C | −8.7°C | −3.7°C | 74 mm | 34 cm |
| April | 10.7°C | −1.0°C | 5.0°C | 100 mm | 8 cm |
| May | 19.1°C | 5.6°C | 12.2°C | 89 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 23.8°C | 10.9°C | 17.4°C | 111 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 26.2°C | 13.4°C | 19.6°C | 112 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.1°C | 12.5°C | 18.7°C | 104 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.4°C | 8.1°C | 14.2°C | 114 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 12.6°C | 2.2°C | 7.4°C | 120 mm | 2 cm |
| November | 5.2°C | −3.5°C | 1.0°C | 93 mm | 17 cm |
| December | −2.1°C | −11.0°C | −7.0°C | 94 mm | 53 cm |
| Year | 11.2°C | −0.3°C | 5.3°C | 1,178 mm | 218 cm |
March: −33.5°C at its coldest, 27.0°C at its warmest
From one year to the next, January’s average typically shifts by 3.5°C around its normal of −11.2°C, the widest of any month, while August’s shifts by 1.1°C.
Where Wendover’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals, Angers, 1991–2020.
- Other locations: a location missing months of precipitation or snow is filled from the nearest that has them all, never mixed month by month.
- 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 Wendover’s climate
How warm does Wendover get in summer?
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 26.2°C.
How cold does Wendover get in winter?
Of all twelve months, January has the coldest nights, about −16.5°C.
How much rain and snow does Wendover get?
Rain and snow add up to about 1,178 mm of water a year; October brings the most (120 mm), February the least (72 mm).
How long does snow stay on the ground?
Snow lies on the ground for about 121 days in a normal year.
Are these figures for Wendover itself?
Not directly: Wendover has no ECCC normals of its own, and Angers stands in for it.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Wendover →
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).