Climate averages 1991–2020

Pickering weather
in January.

A freezing month with moderate precipitation: the coolest and the joint 3rd driest of the year.

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

Average high -2.2°C Daytime mean, January

Average low -9.5°C Night-time mean, January

Precipitation 62 mm 10 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 9 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a freezing month in Pickering: daytime highs average -2.2°C and nights cool to about -9.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 62 mm of precipitation on roughly 10 days, which makes January a month with moderate precipitation (the joint 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 19 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Ajax (10 km away). In January its highs average -1.5°C, 0.7°C warmer than Pickering, with 86 mm of precipitation.

Among the 86 cities listed in Canada, Pickering ranks 43rd of 86 for the warmest January highs and 27th of 86 for the driest January (precipitation, lowest first). The mean January high of those 86 cities is -2.3°C; Pickering is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.6°C to -1.7°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 62 mm to 50 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

Pickering climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Pickering, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Precipitation mm/month	Wet days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	-2.2°C-9.5°C	-9.5°C	62	10.4	9.39 h
February	-1.7°C-9.8°C	-9.8°C	50	8.2	10.410 h
March	2.9°C-5.1°C	-5.1°C	59	10.4	11.912 h
April	9.5°C1.5°C	1.5°C	82	11.3	13.413 h
May	16.1°C8.1°C	8.1°C	82	11.2	14.715 h
June	21.6°C14.0°C	14.0°C	93	11.6	15.415 h
July	24.7°C17.3°C	17.3°C	88	10.9	15.115 h
August	24.1°C17.0°C	17.0°C	84	10.1	14.014 h
September	20.3°C13.5°C	13.5°C	78	9.4	12.613 h
October	13.4°C7.2°C	7.2°C	81	11.5	11.011 h
November	6.5°C0.9°C	0.9°C	71	10.6	9.710 h
December	1.0°C-4.9°C	-4.9°C	62	10.4	9.09 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 Pickering

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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 Pickering) is explained once on the Pickering year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.