Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Precipitation in Ripon tops that of 88% of Canadian towns: 1,178 mm a year
Midwinter brings lows of about −16.5°C. In January, nights here are colder than in 78% of Canadian towns. A year here swings 43°C from midwinter lows to midsummer highs. Windshields need scraping on about 179 mornings a year, the days the air reaches 0°C or below.
These are not Ripon’s own readings: ECCC keeps no normals there, so the page uses Angers, 43 km south-west.
A year in Ripon at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Ripon’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Ripon feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
179 frost days and 112 days above 20°C a year
Frost comes from September to May; in January almost every night freezes. On about 29 nights a year the air falls below −20°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 1,178 mm a year
The most falls in October, the least in February. About 143 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
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, 62 km away.
Snowfall: about 218 cm in a normal year
From October to April snow is likely; January is the peak, at about 56 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Ripon
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. That means homes here need more heating than 60% of Canadian towns.
Living with Ripon’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Plant out after about 26 May; the first frost of autumn usually arrives near 22 September, leaving roughly 119 days without frost.
Afternoons of 17–27°C and nights of at least 8°C arrive in Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →For blizzards, floods and wildfire, turn to Ripon’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Angers
The page’s figures are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Angers, one of its 450 normals locations.
| Distance from the town | 43 km south-west |
| Station altitude | 91 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Lachute, 62 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −39.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 36.0°C |
| Next-nearest location | St-Jovite, 53 km |
How Ripon 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 Quebec.
Nearby towns’ climate
Places around Ripon whose figures come from another normals location. No closer places have figures: these lie 14–43 km from Ripon.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ripon Angers | 26.2°C | −16.5°C | 1,178 mm |
| Lac-Simon 14 km · St-Jovite | 25.3°C 0.9°C cooler | −18.3°C 1.8°C colder | 1,178 mm |
| Grenville-sur-la-Rouge 39 km · Lachute | 26.5°C about the same | −14.7°C 1.8°C milder | 1,178 mm |
Ripon weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and 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 has run from −33.5°C to 27.0°C in thirty years
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 Ripon’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: 1991–2020 normals for Angers from ECCC’s climate data site, the nearest location with every month of temperature.
- Other locations: ECCC blanks a month that fails its completeness rule, so the precipitation or snowfall here comes from the next location with all twelve months.
- Comparisons: every Canadian town and neighbourhood of 2,500 or more, each read from its own nearest location; city totals and reserves are left out.
- Not on this page: sunshine, which none of ECCC’s 450 locations publishes for 1991–2020, and the town’s own height above sea level, so no figure is adjusted for altitude.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Ripon’s climate
How warm does Ripon get in summer?
At its warmest, in July, the normal high is 26.2°C.
How cold does Ripon get in winter?
On a normal January night the air drops to −16.5°C, the coldest of the year.
How much rain and snow does Ripon get?
The yearly total is about 1,178 mm. October gets 120 mm, the most of any month; February gets 72 mm, the least.
How long does snow stay on the ground?
About 121 days a year count as snow-covered, with 1 cm or more.
Are these figures for Ripon itself?
They describe Angers, the nearest normals location, rather than Ripon itself.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Ripon →
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).