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Best Time for Niagara: Falls & Wine Country
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Sweet spot: April, May, June. Computed from NASA POWER climate normals across the route's overnight towns, balancing temperature, rainfall and daylight.
💡 Good to know
- Patio season on the wine routes, the Shaw Festival on stage in Niagara-on-the-Lake, and the falls throwing spray rainbows from the Hornblower decks.
- Icewine harvest — grapes picked frozen at -8°C — with the falls' edges sculpted in ice; the region's secret best photographs.
| Month | Low | High | Rain | Daylight | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −5.4°C | −0.4°C | 56 mm | 9.1 h | ❄ |
| February | −5.8°C | −0.1°C | 50 mm | 10.2 h | ❄ |
| March | −2.4°C | 3.8°C | 56 mm | 11.6 h | ❄ |
| April | 2.1°C | 9.6°C | 73 mm | 13.2 h | |
| May | 8.0°C | 16.0°C | 77 mm | 14.5 h | |
| June | 14.4°C | 21.9°C | 76 mm | 15.2 h | |
| July | 18.4°C | 25.6°C | 80 mm | 14.9 h | |
| August | 18.4°C | 25.3°C | 65 mm | 13.8 h | |
| September | 15.0°C | 21.8°C | 74 mm | 12.3 h | |
| October | 8.7°C | 14.4°C | 82 mm | 10.8 h | |
| November | 2.8°C | 8.1°C | 68 mm | 9.5 h | |
| December | −1.8°C | 2.5°C | 66 mm | 8.8 h | ❄ |