Canada’s snow season turns historic as multiple cities top 500 cm
The 2025-26 winter season in Canada may be over, but the snowfall is still falling in many parts of Canada.
It's only now that we're able to start counting all of the notable statistics that have accumulated since the white stuff started flying in late 2025.
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St. John’s, N.L., officially joined the 500-centimetre club for just the seventh time and Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., soared beyond five metres of snow.. Toronto, Ont., also broke numerous snowfall records this season, and is on the edge of the snowiest season in recorded history.
Meanwhile, the snowiest stretch for Calgary, Alta., is still ahead and Vancouver, B.C., will likely finish the snow season without a measurable snowflake.
St. John's joins the 500-centimetre club
St John’s has reached 500 centimetres for the first time since 2002-03
Seventh time on record (since 1875)
Still average 34 centimetres for April to May
Monster snow finish in Sault Ste. Marie
Sault Ste Marie was neck and neck with Wiarton and Orillia, Ont., for much of the winter, until the March blizzard and a couple of late-season, lake-effect events pushed them well ahead.
It is now another member of the 500-centimetre club.
The season started off fairly strong, being the sixth-snowiest October to December stretch on record, but the 363 centimetres so far in 2026 has nearly doubled what had fallen by Dec. 31, 2025.
Calgary’s snowiest stretch is now
Calgary has mounted an epic snow comeback, trailing below average for the entire snowfall season, until now.
March and April are the snowiest months in Calgary, and 2026 is living up to it.
The early-April snowfall not only put the city above normal for the first time this winter but also reached the 128 cm annual average, weeks ahead of schedule--with another several weeks of snow potential.
Vancouver’s winter without snow
Vancouver has had a few close calls with snow this winter. Much of Metro Vancouver saw a couple of doses but the airport didn’t record any measurable snow this season. The year 2015 was the last calendar year without snow.
Just a trace of snow fell this winter (December 2025 to February 2026), making it the second-least snowy winter on record, behind only 1982–83, which had 0 cm.
For the full snow season (October to April), the all-time low remains a trace in 1957-58, with 1944-45 the next lowest at just 0.3 cm.
Snow oddities and honourable mentions
Toronto is teetering towards Montreal’s typical full-season snowfall, hovering at around 190 cm.
That’s remarkable for a city that is currently at its fourth-snowiest season on record, and yes, it is still within striking distance of the 1938-39 record of 206.7 cm.
The season’s signature snowfall event was Jan. 25, when Pearson International Airport logged 46.2 cm, its snowiest day on record. A whopping 56 cm was measured downtown.
Fluffiest snow award: Scarborough’s Jan. 25 snowfall report of 62 cm from just 16 mm of liquid gives an astonishingly high 39:1 snow ratio, partly the reason why the snowfall piled up so fast.