Geography and Climate
Flin Flon straddles the provincial border of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, with the majority of the city being located in Manitoba. The 2011 census reported 5,363 residents in the Manitoba portion and only 229 in the Saskatchewan section; the Manitoba portion has a land area of 13.88 km2, while the Saskatchewan portion has a land area of 2.37 km2. Due to the zig-zagging nature of the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border, the Saskatchewan section of town lies south of the Manitoba section, not west. The city's Main Street crosses the provincial boundary just south of its intersection with Church Street; Hudson Street crosses the provincial boundary between its intersections with 5 Ave E. and Harrison Street, adopting the new name South Hudson Street at the point of crossing; an undeveloped stretch of Channing Drive briefly crosses into Saskatchewan before reentering Manitoba just west of the city's rural Channing neighbourhood.
The town of Creighton, Saskatchewan, is immediately adjacent to Flin Flon. Nearby lakes include Kipahigan Lake.
The majority of Flin Flon's surface topology is exposed Canadian Shield bedrock, hence the nickname "the city built on rock". Due to this and climatic factors, agriculture is generally not possible, although grain farming is found 130 km southeast in The Pas, Manitoba.
Flin Flon has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dfb) that is on the borderline between humid continental and subarctic (Köppen Dfc). Flin Flon experiences a wide range in seasonal temperatures, with warm summers and very cold winters. Temperatures in January have an average low of −25 °C (−13.0 °F) and an average high of −16 °C (3.2 °F). Temperatures in July have an average high of 24 °C (75.2 °F) and an average low of 13 °C (55.4 °F).
| Climate data for Flin Flon | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 9.5 (49.1) |
11.7 (53.1) |
15.5 (59.9) |
29.4 (84.9) |
33.5 (92.3) |
36.7 (98.1) |
40 (104) |
35.6 (96.1) |
32 (90) |
25 (77) |
15.5 (59.9) |
8.3 (46.9) |
40 (104) |
| Average high °C (°F) | −16.2 (2.8) |
−10.5 (13.1) |
−2.5 (27.5) |
7.3 (45.1) |
15.5 (59.9) |
21.1 (70.0) |
23.7 (74.7) |
22.2 (72.0) |
14.4 (57.9) |
6.4 (43.5) |
−5 (23) |
−13.7 (7.3) |
5.2 (41.4) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −20.4 (−4.7) |
−15.3 (4.5) |
−8.1 (17.4) |
1.8 (35.2) |
9.8 (49.6) |
15.7 (60.3) |
18.5 (65.3) |
17.2 (63.0) |
10.1 (50.2) |
3.0 (37.4) |
−8 (17.6) |
−17.5 (0.5) |
0.6 (33.1) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −24.5 (−12.1) |
−20.1 (−4.2) |
−13.6 (7.5) |
−3.8 (25.2) |
4.1 (39.4) |
10.3 (50.5) |
13.2 (55.8) |
12.2 (54.0) |
5.9 (42.6) |
−0.4 (31.3) |
−11 (12) |
−21.2 (−6.2) |
−4.1 (24.6) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −46.1 (−51.0) |
−43.3 (−45.9) |
−40 (−40) |
−29.4 (−20.9) |
−15 (5) |
−2.8 (27.0) |
0 (32) |
0 (32) |
−10 (14) |
−21.7 (−7.1) |
−34.4 (−29.9) |
−43.3 (−45.9) |
−46.1 (−51.0) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 16.8 (0.661) |
14.9 (0.587) |
18.3 (0.72) |
23.1 (0.909) |
43.7 (1.72) |
72.5 (2.854) |
75.5 (2.972) |
61.8 (2.433) |
56.6 (2.228) |
35.1 (1.382) |
21.4 (0.843) |
23.5 (0.925) |
463.1 (18.232) |
| Source: Environment Canada | |||||||||||||
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