About The Home Almanac

Search for when to put winter tires on, when to plant tomatoes, or what to do when you move provinces, and the internet hands you American ZIP-code tools, decade-old forum threads, and listicles that never quite commit to a date.

Canadian homes run on Canadian seasons. The dates that matter, frost, freeze-up, the 7 C crossing, a province's licence deadline, exist in official records and government pages. They were just never assembled into one place that respects your time.

The Home Almanac is that place. Every date computed from Environment and Climate Change Canada's 30-year climate normals at your nearest station. Every rule cited to the government page it came from, with the date it was last verified. No accounts, no apps, no nagging. Set your place once and the whole almanac speaks your climate.

The Home Almanac is built and maintained by Alex Maxey in Ontario. The data pipelines refresh on a schedule and flag him the moment a source changes, and the whole thing is designed like the reference books that used to earn a permanent spot on the kitchen shelf. Bookmark it; that is the intended use.

Questions and corrections: the methodology page documents every source. If a rule changed before we caught it, the primary link beside it is always the authority.