Climate averages 1991–2020
Sault Ste. Marie weather
in July.
A warm, wet month: the warmest and the joint 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
July is a warm month in Sault Ste. Marie: daytime highs average 23.3°C and nights cool to about 15.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 101 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes July a wet month (the joint 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 26 min on an average July day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Greater Sudbury (256 km away). In July its highs average 24.2°C, 0.9°C warmer than Sault Ste. Marie, with 87 mm of rain.
Among the 86 cities listed in Canada, Sault Ste. Marie ranks 60th of 86 for the warmest July highs and joint 75th of 86 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 86 cities is 24.4°C; Sault Ste. Marie is 1.1°C cooler than that mean.
From July to August, average highs fall by 0.5°C to 22.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 101 mm to 95 mm.
The annual picture
July in context
Monthly precipitation
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Sault Ste. Marie climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -6.5°C-13.1°C | -13.1°C | 46 | 10.2 | 9.09 h |
| February | -6.0°C-12.6°C | -12.6°C | 36 | 7.6 | 10.310 h |
| March | -0.5°C-7.6°C | -7.6°C | 46 | 8.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 7.0°C-1.4°C | -1.4°C | 67 | 10.2 | 13.514 h |
| May | 15.4°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 72 | 10.0 | 15.015 h |
| June | 21.0°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 81 | 9.8 | 15.816 h |
| July, selected | 23.3°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 101 | 11.4 | 15.415 h |
| August | 22.8°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 95 | 10.9 | 14.214 h |
| September | 18.8°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 108 | 12.1 | 12.613 h |
| October | 11.5°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 101 | 13.7 | 10.911 h |
| November | 4.4°C-0.8°C | -0.8°C | 67 | 11.2 | 9.59 h |
| December | -1.7°C-7.7°C | -7.7°C | 56 | 11.1 | 8.79 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
July in nearby cities
- Greater Sudbury in JulyCanada · 256 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 15.0°C · 87 mm rain
- Green Bay in JulyUnited States · 363 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 17.8°C · 88 mm rain
- Flint in JulyUnited States · 393 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 17.8°C · 75 mm rain
- Appleton in JulyUnited States · 405 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 17.7°C · 86 mm rain
- Grand Rapids in JulyUnited States · 409 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 18.0°C · 96 mm rain
- Wyoming in JulyUnited States · 415 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 17.8°C · 96 mm rain
- Lansing in JulyUnited States · 421 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 17.8°C · 79 mm rain
- Sarnia in JulyCanada · 422 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 18.8°C · 71 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Sault Ste. Marie) is explained once on the Sault Ste. Marie year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.