Climate averages 1991–2020

Kanata weather
in January.

A freezing month with moderate precipitation: the coolest and the 2nd driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high -4.9°C Daytime mean, January

Average low -14.7°C Night-time mean, January

Precipitation 68 mm 10 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 9 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a freezing month in Kanata: daytime highs average -4.9°C and nights cool to about -14.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 68 mm of precipitation on roughly 10 days, which makes January a month with moderate precipitation (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 10 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Nepean (16 km away). In January its highs average -4.8°C, about as warm as Kanata, with 70 mm of precipitation.

Among the 86 cities listed in Canada, Kanata ranks 60th of 86 for the warmest January highs and joint 35th of 86 for the driest January (precipitation, lowest first). The mean January high of those 86 cities is -2.3°C; Kanata is 2.5°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.8°C to -3.0°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 68 mm to 55 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly precipitation

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Kanata climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Kanata, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Precipitation mm/month	Wet days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	-4.9°C-14.7°C	-14.7°C	68	10.2	9.29 h
February	-3.0°C-13.6°C	-13.6°C	55	8.7	10.410 h
March	2.7°C-7.6°C	-7.6°C	69	10.0	11.912 h
April	10.7°C0.2°C	0.2°C	89	11.5	13.513 h
May	18.4°C7.6°C	7.6°C	83	11.3	14.915 h
June	23.2°C13.2°C	13.2°C	94	11.5	15.616 h
July	25.7°C16.2°C	16.2°C	94	11.9	15.315 h
August	24.5°C15.7°C	15.7°C	84	10.6	14.114 h
September	20.4°C11.8°C	11.8°C	87	10.1	12.613 h
October	12.8°C5.4°C	5.4°C	94	11.5	11.011 h
November	5.5°C-1.0°C	-1.0°C	78	11.0	9.610 h
December	-1.1°C-8.5°C	-8.5°C	74	11.1	8.89 h

Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

January in nearby cities

Distance from Kanata

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Kanata) is explained once on the Kanata year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.