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.
The tools
Four instruments, one almanac
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 yearWhy 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 alert a human when a source changes. 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.
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.