Hottest Canadian Cities

Record High Temperatures

Among Canada's 26 largest cities, these nine have reached maximum temperatures above 38 °C (100.4 °F):

City	Highest °C	Date
Regina	43.3	July 5, 1937
Winnipeg	40.6	August 7, 1949
Saskatoon	40.6	June 5, 1988
Windsor	40.2	June 25, 1988
Kelowna	39.5	July 24, 1994
Saguenay	38.4	July 2, 2002
Toronto	38.3	August 25, 1948
Sudbury	38.3	July 31, 1975
London	38.2	June 25, 1988

Hot Days

What average temperatures don't reveal is how often the weather gets really hot. Seven large Canadian cities typically have more than ten days a year when temperatures top 30 °C (86 °F). The three British Columbian cities with the country's highest average temperatures are not in this list.

Average number of days per year the temperature rises above 30 °C:

City	Days Above 30 °C
Windsor	20.7
Regina	15.7
St. Catharines - Niagara	13.7
Winnipeg	13.5
Toronto	12.6
Saskatoon	11.3
Ottawa - Gatineau	11.3