City Centre has some of the warmest summer afternoons among Canadian towns
January nights here settle around −7.1°C. July is the wettest month, February the driest. By frosts alone, it ranks gentler than 86% of Canadian towns. About 110 days a year bring 1 mm of precipitation or more.
Read at Windsor, 7.6 km south-east: ECCC’s normals for 1991–2020.
A year in City Centre at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about City Centre’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in City Centre feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on 115 days, 20°C on 141
From November to April frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. Some 24 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
About 954 mm of rain and snow a year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
About 140 cm of snow a year
Snow falls from November to April, most of all in January (about 43 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in City Centre
95% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: November to April.
Heating degree days total each day’s gap between its mean temperature and 18°C. Over a year, a home here needs less heating than 93% of Canadian towns.
Living with City Centre’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Gardens get from about 17 April to 1 November without frost, around 197 days in all.
The comfortable months for a day outside, highs of 17–27°C and nights of 8°C or more: May, Jun, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →About 13 days a year bring a wind chill under −20, when bare skin chills fast.
A humidex above 30 marks about 74 days in a normal year.
Ice storms, floods and heat waves are risks, not averages: they are on City Centre’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Windsor
ECCC builds the Windsor normals from 3 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 7.6 km south-east |
| Station altitude | 190 m |
| Completeness | at least 25 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −29.1°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 38.3°C |
| Average wind | 15.6 km/h on average, most often from the south-west |
| Next-nearest location | Windsor Riverside, 9.2 km |
How City Centre 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
Places around City Centre whose figures come from another normals location. Distances here run 13–29 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from City Centre.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| City Centre Windsor | 28.3°C | −7.1°C | 954 mm |
| Tecumseh 13 km · Windsor Riverside | 29.2°C 0.9°C warmer | −6.3°C 0.8°C milder | 935 mm |
| Amherstburg 23 km · Harrow | 27.6°C 0.7°C cooler | −7.0°C about the same | 827 mm |
City Centre weather by month
Average daily high and low, mean temperature, rain and snow (as water) and snowfall by month, 1991–2020.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0.0°C | −7.1°C | −3.6°C | 71 mm | 43 cm |
| February | 1.3°C | −6.4°C | −2.6°C | 60 mm | 33 cm |
| March | 6.8°C | −2.1°C | 2.4°C | 71 mm | 23 cm |
| April | 14.0°C | 3.5°C | 8.8°C | 92 mm | 6 cm |
| May | 20.7°C | 9.8°C | 15.3°C | 97 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 26.0°C | 15.5°C | 20.8°C | 83 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 28.3°C | 18.0°C | 23.2°C | 99 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 27.0°C | 17.1°C | 22.1°C | 76 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 23.1°C | 13.0°C | 18.1°C | 88 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 16.1°C | 6.9°C | 11.6°C | 74 mm | under 1 cm |
| November | 8.9°C | 1.4°C | 5.2°C | 73 mm | 5 cm |
| December | 2.7°C | −3.5°C | −0.4°C | 69 mm | 30 cm |
| Year | 14.6°C | 5.5°C | 10.1°C | 954 mm | 140 cm |
March has run from −22.0°C to 28.4°C in thirty years
Year to year, January varies most (a standard deviation of 2.8°C around −3.6°C) and June least (1.2°C).
Where City Centre’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the Canadian Climate Normals, 1991–2020, at Windsor (the closest location with all twelve months of temperatures).
- Comparisons: all Canadian places of 2,500 or more except city totals and reserves, each read the same way.
- 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 City Centre’s climate
How warm does City Centre get in summer?
Of all twelve months, July has the warmest afternoons, about 28.3°C.
How cold does City Centre get in winter?
January nights average −7.1°C, the coldest of the year.
How much rain and snow does City Centre get?
Rain and snow add up to about 954 mm of water a year; July brings the most (99 mm), February the least (60 mm).
How long does snow stay on the ground?
A layer of at least 1 cm stays down on about 53 days a year.
Are these figures for City Centre itself?
Almost: ECCC’s Windsor location, which gives these figures, lies a short way outside City Centre.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for City Centre →
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).