Climate averages 1991–2020

Thunder Bay weather
in June.

A mild, moderately wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 7th driest of the year.

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

Average high 18.3°C Daytime mean, June
Average low 10.7°C Night-time mean, June
Rainfall 65 mm 11 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 16 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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June is a mild month in Thunder Bay: daytime highs average 18.3°C and nights cool to about 10.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 65 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes June a moderately wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 16 h 02 min on an average June day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Duluth (278 km away). In June its highs average 19.6°C, 1.3°C warmer than Thunder Bay, with 105 mm of rain.

Among the 86 cities listed in Canada, Thunder Bay ranks 80th of 86 for the warmest June highs and 8th of 86 for the driest June (rainfall, lowest first). The mean June high of those 86 cities is 21.4°C; Thunder Bay is 3.1°C cooler than that mean.

From June to July, average highs rise by 4.0°C to 22.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 65 mm to 76 mm.

The annual picture

June in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -20-15-10-50510152025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly precipitation

Average total · mm
Average monthly precipitation totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1000

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

Every month, side by side

Thunder Bay climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Thunder Bay, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowPrecipitation mm/monthWet days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January -9.6°C-16.6°C-16.6°C296.58.89 h
February -8.0°C-15.0°C-15.0°C224.910.210 h
March -1.7°C-8.7°C-8.7°C316.811.912 h
April 5.1°C-2.2°C-2.2°C548.313.614 h
May 12.5°C4.2°C4.2°C6610.115.215 h
June, selected 18.3°C10.7°C10.7°C6510.516.016 h
July 22.3°C15.3°C15.3°C7610.615.716 h
August 22.3°C15.6°C15.6°C679.114.314 h
September 17.8°C11.7°C11.7°C8410.512.613 h
October 9.9°C4.8°C4.8°C7210.410.911 h
November 2.3°C-2.8°C-2.8°C497.89.39 h
December -4.8°C-11.3°C-11.3°C387.48.48 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

June in nearby cities

Distance from Thunder Bay

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