Ideal weather days in St. John's
The best time to visit St. John's for warm, dry weather is July, August and September, with 9 to 10 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at St. John's's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in July, August and September.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in St. John's, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold266
- Too windy217
- Too wet152
- Too hot0
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), St. John's averaged 34 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Canada, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are rare: no month averaged more than 3. Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in (up to 3 a month, 9 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 266 a year, mostly in October to May. Another 217 are windy (mean wind over 20 km/h), mostly in October to August. A day can fail more than one test.
St. John's weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0 °C 32 °F | 15 | 21 | 0 | 0 of 31 |
| February | 0 °C 32 °F | 15 | 22 | 1 | 0 of 28 |
| March | 2 °C 36 °F | 14 | 23 | 2 | 0 of 31 |
| April | 5 °C 41 °F | 15 | 22 | 2 | 0 of 30 |
| May | 11 °C 52 °F | 12 | 16 | 3 | 1 of 31 |
| June | 19 °C 66 °F | 14 | 16 | 3 | 4 of 30 |
| July | 25 °C 77 °F | 9 | 17 | 4 | 10 of 31 |
| August | 23 °C 73 °F | 10 | 16 | 6 | 9 of 31 |
| September | 20 °C 68 °F | 15 | 12 | 4 | 9 of 30 |
| October | 13 °C 55 °F | 18 | 19 | 2 | 0 of 31 |
| November | 7 °C 45 °F | 19 | 15 | 0 | 0 of 30 |
| December | 3 °C 37 °F | 14 | 19 | 1 | 0 of 31 |
| Year | 169 | 217 | 28 | 34 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 38 warm, dry days
- 2024 27 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit St. John's for good weather?
The best time to visit St. John's for warm, dry weather is July, August and September, with 9 to 10 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are rare: no month averaged more than 3. Counted from measured days at St Johns International station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in St. John's?
On average 169 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was November (19 rain days), the driest July (9).
How many sunny days does St. John's get a year?
About 28 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in August (6).
How warm does St. John's get?
The median daily high ranged from 0 °C (32 °F) in January to 25 °C (77 °F) in July.
Nearby
- Halifax900 km98 days
- Boston1560 km, United States116 days
- Montréal1610 km111 days
- Ottawa1780 km113 days
- Iqaluit2060 km6 days
More cities in Canada
- Calgary 117 days
- Toronto 115 days
- Vancouver 108 days
- Edmonton 104 days
- Regina 97 days
- Yellowknife 81 days
- Whitehorse 67 days
Where is the best climate in Canada?
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Source: St Johns International weather station (71801099999), 7 km from the centre of St. John's, 141 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 87% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.