Climate and average weather in Tillsonburg

In Tillsonburg, the summers are warm, showery, and partly cloudy and the winters are very cold, breezy, snowy, and mostly cloudy.

Best: late May to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Tillsonburg typically varies from -7°C to 25°C, and is rarely below -17°C or above 29°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Tillsonburg for warm-weather activities is from late May to late September.

Hottest
Jul
25°
Coldest
Jan
-7°
Wettest
Jun
106 mm
Driest
Feb
59 mm
Rain / yr
1025 mm
132 wet days
Daylight
8.8–15.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
225 m
42.9°N
Clearest
Jul
53% cloud

Tillsonburg is town in Oxford County, Ontario, Canada.

Founded
1825

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Tillsonburg weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around late May to late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Tillsonburg, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 4.1 months, from May 23 to September 25, with daily high temperatures above 19°C. The hottest month of the year in Tillsonburg is July, with an average high of 25°C and low of 19°C.

The cool season lasts 3.4 months, from December 5 to March 16, with daily high temperatures below 4°C. The coldest month of the year in Tillsonburg is January, with an average low of -7°C and high of -1°C.

Days typically run about 6°C warmer than nights year-round.

-20°-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan-1-7
Feb-1-7
Mar4-3
Apr103
May1710
Jun2316
Jul2519
Aug2518
Sep2114
Oct148
Nov72
Dec2-3

How hot and cold Tillsonburg really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -15°C (around January 24), with roughly 164 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 76 of them bitterly cold — worst in January.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan-1-1-14-7
Feb-1-1-14-7
Mar44-9-3
Apr1010-13
May1717910
Jun23231616
Jul25251919
Aug24251818
Sep21211414
Oct141458
Nov77-22
Dec22-8-3

Average hourly temperature in Tillsonburg

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on July afternoons, near 25°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -7°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Tillsonburg weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan-1° / -7°7711.68.69.20.0
Feb-1° / -7°599.16.810.20.0
Mar / -3°7510.34.611.60.1
Apr10° / 9711.91.413.12.1
May17° / 10°9312.3014.45.1
Jun23° / 16°10612015.16.5
Jul25° / 19°10211.7014.86.6
Aug25° / 18°8610.3013.77.0
Sep21° / 14°859.4012.36.6
Oct14° / 8811.40.110.84.0
Nov / 8110.62.79.51.0
Dec / -3°7811.87.28.90.0

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Tillsonburg gets about 1025 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 0.9 months, from around Jul 12 to Aug 7, peaking in July at about 42% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 30.

June is the wettest month by volume, with 106 mm over about 12 wet days; February is the driest, with 59 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 22 · 42%Aug 30 · 30%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3712
Feb339
Mar3410
Apr3912
May3912
Jun3912
Jul3812
Aug3410
Sep319
Oct3611
Nov3611
Dec3912

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Tillsonburg collects about 1025 mm of rain across 132 wet days — roughly 85 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. June is the wettest month with 106 mm, while February is the driest at just 59 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 30% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec77597597931061028685888178
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan77129
Feb5997
Mar75105
Apr97121
May93120
Jun106120
Jul102120
Aug86100
Sep8590
Oct88110
Nov81113
Dec78127

Snow in Tillsonburg

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

Tillsonburg averages about 31 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 30 to Apr 22 — about 5.8 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 8 days of snow and an estimated 34 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 138 cm of snow.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 13
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan934
Feb732
Mar522
Apr14
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct00
Nov312
Dec734

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Tillsonburg, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around April 28 and lasts for 5.8 months, ending around October 21. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 61% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 22 and lasts for 6.2 months, ending around April 27. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 84% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 17 · 61%Jan 6 · 13%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1684
Feb2674
Mar3565
Apr3763
May4357
Jun5149
Jul5842
Aug6139
Sep5545
Oct4357
Nov2971
Dec1882

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 18, brings about 15 h 12 min of light; the shortest, around December 18, only 8 h 48 min — a swing of roughly 6 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan9.27:575:07
Feb10.27:305:45
Mar11.66:436:22
Apr13.15:486:58
May14.45:067:32
Jun15.14:497:57
Jul14.85:037:55
Aug13.75:347:20
Sep12.36:096:26
Oct10.86:445:32
Nov9.57:234:53
Dec8.97:534:45

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Tillsonburg averages about 7 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 12 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.0 months, from around Apr 18 to Oct 17. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 11 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is January, down near 2 sunny days — about 78% fewer than the September peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedSep 1312 daysJan 72 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan2Gloomy
Feb4Gloomy
Mar7Gloomy
Apr7Gloomy
May8Mixed
Jun10Mixed
Jul11Mixed
Aug11Mixed
Sep11Mixed
Oct8Gloomy
Nov5Gloomy
Dec3Gloomy

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Tillsonburg, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 4.1 months, from around May 26 to September 26. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 61% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 27 to May 25, and October is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 96% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecOct 28 · 100%Jul 23 · 35%oppressivemuggydryhumidcomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan1000000
Feb1000000
Mar1000000
Apr991000
May8110720
Jun392320153
Jul1821262410
Aug182626237
Sep472219111
Oct879310
Nov991000
Dec1000000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Tillsonburg is typically light breeze, near 17 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.5 months, from around Oct 3 to Mar 19. The windiest month is January, averaging about 19 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 23 to Oct 2, with August the calmest month at about 13 km/h.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezebreezyJan 4 · 20 km/hAug 9 · 13 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan19light breeze
Feb18light breeze
Mar17light breeze
Apr17light breeze
May16light breeze
Jun15light breeze
Jul14light breeze
Aug13light breeze
Sep15light breeze
Oct18light breeze
Nov19light breeze
Dec20light breeze

Best time to visit Tillsonburg

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Tillsonburg throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around early June, Tillsonburg is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Tillsonburg for general outdoor tourist activities is from late May to late September, with a peak score in the last week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 27 · 7.2

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan0.0poor
Feb0.0poor
Mar0.1poor
Apr2.2poor
May5.1fair
Jun6.5good
Jul6.6good
Aug6.9good
Sep6.6good
Oct4.0fair
Nov1.1poor
Dec0.0poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Tillsonburg for hot-weather activities is from mid June to early September, with a peak score in the second week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 9 · 6.2

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Tillsonburg, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around July (highs near 25°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near -1°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Tillsonburg sees daytime highs around 25°C and nights near 19°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes and rain gear. About 12 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Tillsonburg

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 27 km away) is warmest in August at about 23°C and coldest in February near 1°C.

It's comfortable for a long swim from Jul 6 to Sep 19 — about 2.5 months when the water holds above 20°C.

0°10°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcoolrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan2Bracing
Feb1Bracing
Mar1Bracing
Apr4Bracing
May10Bracing
Jun17Cool
Jul22Refreshing
Aug23Refreshing
Sep21Refreshing
Oct16Cool
Nov10Bracing
Dec6Bracing

UV index (midday) in Tillsonburg by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Tillsonburg peaks around June 23 at about 9 (very high) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 22 at about 1 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 8 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJun 23UV 9Dec 22UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan2Low
Feb2Moderate
Mar4Moderate
Apr5High
May7High
Jun9Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug7High
Sep6High
Oct3Moderate
Nov2Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Tillsonburg

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in June the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan00
Feb00
Mar40
Apr60
May7.53
Jun8.55
Jul8.55
Aug73
Sep5.50
Oct20
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayTypical season (≥50%)

The growing season in Tillsonburg typically lasts about 245 days, from around March 31 to November 30 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from April 21 to October 31.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonFeb 1110%Mar 3150%Apr 2190%Oct 3190%Nov 3050%Feb 110%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1431
Feb1228
Mar2831
Apr7920
May990
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct970
Nov7129
Dec3131

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Tillsonburg banks about 1,383 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

05001,0001,500JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May112
Jun287
Jul372
Aug346
Sep223
Oct43
Nov0
Dec0

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Tillsonburg receives about 4.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.3 and 6.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Mar 17 to Sep 22. The brightest month is June, averaging about 6.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.4 kWh/m² — roughly 80% less than the June peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 276.8 kWhDec 201.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.7Dim
Feb2.8Moderate
Mar4.1Bright
Apr5.1Bright
May6.2Intense
Jun6.7Intense
Jul6.5Intense
Aug5.7Bright
Sep4.4Bright
Oct2.9Moderate
Nov1.8Dim
Dec1.4Dim

Where is Tillsonburg?

Tillsonburg sits at 42.9°N, 80.7°W, 225 m above sea level, in Canada. The nearest listed city is Norfolk County, 28 km away.

Topography around Tillsonburg

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Tillsonburg.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Tillsonburg has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 66 m around an average of 237 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 146 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 367 m.

The land around Tillsonburg is covered by cropland (31%), trees (30%) and grassland (20%) within 3 km, cropland (64%) and trees (24%) within 16 km, and cropland (43%) and water (34%) within 80 km.

3 km
66 m
16 km
146 m
80 km
367 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Norfolk County 28 km · Woodstock 30 km · St. Thomas 38 km · Brant 43 km · London 43 km · Brantford 48 km · Stratford 59 km · Christopher-Champlain 64 km

Canada travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type A / B
120 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 83% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$55,698
2025
Happiness
6.7 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
97%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
2
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
5.3
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
Religion
Christian 53%none 35%Muslim 5%Hindu 2%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Tillsonburg (42.8599°, -80.7262°, elevation 225 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).