Built on 30-year Environment Canada climate normals
The Canadian home, in season.
Winter tires on. Garden in. Movers booked. Furnace ready. The Almanac computes every date your home runs on, for your exact place, from official climate normals and primary provincial sources.
Built for Canadian homes, not American ZIP codes. 655 stations, every province and territory.
What the Almanac is for
An almanac always told you when to plant, when to brace for the frost, when the season turned. The Home Almanac does that for your exact home, computed from real climate data, hands you the tools to act on it, and puts the local season on a map. Free, and built for Canadian homes.
Dated to your town, not your province
The country is too big for one answer. Last frost in Windsor and in Thunder Bay fall six weeks apart, and winter tires belong on a month earlier in Whitehorse than in Vancouver. The Almanac reads the 30-year record at the station nearest you, so every date on the page is computed for your town, from 655 official Environment Canada stations.
- Free, no account, no sign-up. Set your town once and stay.
- Your place is saved in your own browser, nowhere else.
- Every rule is cited to the government source it came from.
- Print any of it, or send the dates to your calendar.
Everything it does
The Date Almanac New
Free, ready-made day-trips: a pick-your-own farm, a waterfall or a lookout, and a market, mapped into one good day. Print it and go.
Your home year
Frost dates, tire windows, and a month-by-month maintenance calendar tuned to your exact place.
Weather
The forecast and the 30-year normals for your station, read against the season you are actually in.
Frost and planting
Last and first frost for your place, and sow-and-harvest windows for dozens of crops.
Moving
A dated interprovincial checklist, and a climate match between your old town and your new one.
U-pick farms 128
Pick-your-own across Ontario, by crop and region, June berries through fall apples.
Farmers markets 360
Ontario markets grouped by region, with their market days and seasons.
Roadside stands
Eggs, honey, firewood, flowers. Find one near you, or claim a free page for yours.
Set your town at the top of the page and every date here fills in for your place. No account, nothing to install.
The tools
Forty-three instruments, one almanac
A handful that are in season right now. See every tool and planner.
Interprovincial Moving Planner
A personalized, dated checklist for moving between provinces: health card windows, licence deadlines, mail forwarding, every address that must change. Print it or send it to your calendar.
Plan the move WinterWinter Tire Planner
Your on and off windows computed from the 7 C threshold at your nearest station, plus the actual law in all 13 provinces and territories, cited to the government source.
Get my windows SpringFrost and Planting Calendar
Last and first frost for your place from the 30-year record, and sow, transplant, and harvest windows for 32 crops fitted to your real season length.
See my dates Year-roundThe Home Year
The full Canadian maintenance calendar: what to do to your house every month, tuned to your climate region, from spring melt to freeze-up.
Open the year SeasonalPool Calendar
When to open, close, and winterize, computed from the 30-year climate record at your nearest station.
Get pool dates SeasonalLawn Calendar
First mow, overseed window, last fertilizer, last cut, and snow-mold watch for your exact place.
Get lawn datesWhy trust it
Reference-grade, by construction
- 655 official stations, computed individually. No national averages, no guesswork.
- Primary sources only. Every law and deadline links to the government page it came from, with the date we last verified it.
- Auto-refreshed. Data pipelines re-run on a schedule and re-check every source, so a changed law or a new climate normal shows up here, not months later. Stale reference is wrong reference.
- No accounts, ever. Your place is saved in your browser. We measure how the tools are used with anonymous, cookie-free analytics, never who uses them. We could not sell your data if we wanted to; we never have it.
Your whole home year for your town on one page you can print and keep: frost dates, planting windows, and each month's jobs. Plus the dates that matter, by email, when the season turns. No account, no spam, one tap to stop.
Questions, answered plainly
What is The Home Almanac?
A free Canadian reference that computes the dates your home runs on: winter tire windows, last and first frost, planting windows, moving deadlines, and the month-by-month maintenance year. Everything is calculated for your nearest official weather station from Environment and Climate Change Canada climate normals, with provincial rules cited to primary government sources.
Where does the data come from?
Climate figures come from Environment and Climate Change Canada 30-year climate normals across 655 Canadian stations. Provincial rules, deadlines, and laws are taken from the responsible government source, linked beside every claim, and re-verified on a schedule. The methodology page documents every calculation.
Is it free, and do I need an account?
Free, no account, no sign-up. Your chosen place is saved in your own browser and nowhere else. Some pages may carry clearly disclosed affiliate links or quote forms, which never change the dates or advice shown.
Why dates for my exact place instead of my province?
Canada is too big for province-wide advice. Last frost in Windsor and last frost in Thunder Bay are six weeks apart, and the 7 C winter tire threshold arrives a month earlier in Whitehorse than in Vancouver. The Almanac computes from the climate record of your nearest station, not a national average.