Waterloo, Canada Climate
The warmest month is July, with an average high of 27°C; the coldest is February, with an average low of -10°C. A normal year brings 742 mm of precipitation.
Temperature through the year
The normal daily high and low. The line marks today.
- Normal low
- Normal high
- Reanalysis extreme high
- Reanalysis extreme low
Normals for Sep 24
- Normal high
- 21°C
- Normal low
- 9°C
- Reanalysis high
- 32°Cin 2017
- Reanalysis low
- 1°Cin 1992
- Chance of a wet day
- 37%
- Daylight
- 12 h 04 min
Month by month
Averages for 1991-2020. Wet days have at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis. Each month links to its own page.
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Warmest | Coldest | Precipitation | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -3°C | -10°C | 13°C (1995) | -26°C (1999) | 50 mm | 9.3 |
| February | -2°C | -10°C | 17°C (2000) | -28°C (2015) | 40 mm | 8.5 |
| March | 4°C | -6°C | 26°C (2012) | -26°C (2003) | 47 mm | 9.3 |
| April | 11°C | 0°C | 25°C (2010) | -18°C (2003) | 66 mm | 12.0 |
| May | 18°C | 6°C | 32°C (2006) | -4°C (2020) | 71 mm | 12.4 |
| June | 24°C | 12°C | 35°C (1995) | 2°C (1992) | 75 mm | 12.0 |
| July | 27°C | 15°C | 36°C (2005) | 6°C (2001) | 78 mm | 12.4 |
| August | 27°C | 15°C | 36°C (2001) | 6°C (2000) | 65 mm | 12.4 |
| September | 23°C | 11°C | 35°C (2002) | -2°C (1993) | 72 mm | 12.0 |
| October | 14°C | 4°C | 30°C (2007) | -5°C (2008) | 68 mm | 12.4 |
| November | 6°C | -1°C | 22°C (2020) | -14°C (2018) | 60 mm | 12.0 |
| December | 0°C | -6°C | 16°C (2015) | -25°C (2004) | 50 mm | 9.3 |
| Year | 12°C | 2°C | 742 mm | 134 |
Precipitation
Rain and melted snow together. The chance of a wet day is the share of days with at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.
742 mm in a normal year, most in July.
Chance of a wet day
- Chance of a wet day
Humidity and comfort
NASA POWER reanalysis, 1991-2020, for the grid cell around Waterloo.
The muggiest month is July, when 16 percent of days are muggy or worse, with a mean dew point of 18°C or more.
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Dry | Comfortable | Humid | Muggy | Oppressive | Miserable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -8°C | 90% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| February | -8°C | 89% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| March | -4°C | 83% | 99% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| April | 1°C | 78% | 98% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| May | 8°C | 75% | 83% | 10% | 5% | 2% | 0% | 0% |
| June | 12°C | 73% | 52% | 24% | 16% | 8% | 1% | 0% |
| July | 14°C | 69% | 35% | 27% | 22% | 14% | 2% | 0% |
| August | 14°C | 70% | 40% | 27% | 22% | 9% | 1% | 0% |
| September | 11°C | 72% | 69% | 18% | 9% | 4% | 0% | 0% |
| October | 5°C | 79% | 94% | 4% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| November | 0°C | 85% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| December | -5°C | 89% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Comfort is judged by the day's mean dew point: dry below 13°C, comfortable to 16°C, humid to 18°C, muggy to 21°C, oppressive to 24°C, miserable above.
Clouds
Average share of the sky covered, from satellite (CERES and GEWEX SRB) by way of NASA POWER, 1991-2020.
The clearest month is August, with the sky 54 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is December, at 77 percent.
Wind
The mean wind speed over the whole day, from the MERRA-2 reanalysis by way of NASA POWER. Gusts run well above it.
The windiest month is January, averaging 22.7 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Jun 21, with 15 h 26 min of daylight; the shortest is Dec 17, with 8 h 57 min.
- Day length
Solar energy
Average daily sunshine reaching the ground on a flat surface, in kilowatt-hours per square meter, clouds included.
Month pages
The weather in Waterloo in each month, day by day.
What this means
A normal is the average of the thirty years 1991 to 2020, the period the World Meteorological Organization and NOAA use for comparison. It is an average, not a forecast: most days depart from it, and some by a long way.
Where no station record is within reach, the extremes shown are the highest and lowest the reanalysis produced for the date in 1991-2020, not measured records.
Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine come from a reanalysis: a weather model run over the past with every observation fed in, averaged over a grid cell about 50 km across. It is consistent everywhere on Earth; it smooths local detail such as a lake shore or a valley.
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Sources
Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine, and temperature and precipitation: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-24. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.