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Maple sugaring in Haliburton, Ontario

Haliburton is a county in Ontario. Ontario's census divisions are its counties, districts and regional municipalities. Statistics Canada's 2021 Census of Agriculture counted 14 farms reporting maple taps and 14,967 taps here. Around Haliburton Village, sap usually runs from March 21 to April 22. Here's the long-run pattern, 35 seasons of sap weather, and the outlook this week.
Too early to tapAbout 165 days until the usual start.
Sap starts
Mar 21
weather estimate
Season ends
Apr 22
about 5 weeks
Sap days / season
39.9
1991–2025 average
Taps, 2021
14,967
#24 of 29 in ON

Sap-flow outlook at Haliburton Village right now

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Forecast for Haliburton Village, ON

Updated Oct 7, 11:00 AM EDT

Off-season for now. Sap needs freezing nights, and none are in sight. Haliburton's season usually opens around March 21, which is 165 days away.

No freeze-thaw days in the forecast

freeze thaw 0 °C

  1. ThuOct 8
    7° / 15°
    No refreeze forecast
  2. FriOct 9
    4° / 12°
    No refreeze forecast
  3. SatOct 10
    1° / 17°
    No refreeze forecast
  4. SunOct 11
    13° / 23°
    No refreeze forecast
  5. MonOct 12
    11° / 18°
    No refreeze forecast
  6. TueOct 13
    10° / 14°
    No refreeze forecast

Data: Environment and Climate Change Canada. Verdicts use freeze-thaw thresholds from maple field research; your woods may run a little differently.

When the sap runs

The sugaring calendar at Haliburton Village

Freeze-thaw weather at Haliburton Village peaks in the weeks of Mar 9 to Apr 27, which hold about 63% of a season's sap days. April is the busiest month. Typical dates are a weather estimate (no official season record for this province): the median of this division's own weather signals.
Typical season: Mar 21 – Apr 220246Week of Dec 1: 0.9 sap days on averageWeek of Dec 8: 1.0 sap days on averageWeek of Dec 15: 0.9 sap days on averageWeek of Dec 22: 0.7 sap days on averageWeek of Dec 29: 0.6 sap days on averageWeek of Jan 5: 0.5 sap days on averageWeek of Jan 12: 0.3 sap days on averageWeek of Jan 19: 0.4 sap days on averageWeek of Jan 26: 0.5 sap days on averageWeek of Feb 2: 0.7 sap days on averageWeek of Feb 9: 0.7 sap days on averageWeek of Feb 16: 1.2 sap days on averageWeek of Feb 23: 1.4 sap days on averageWeek of Mar 2: 1.5 sap days on averageWeek of Mar 9: 2.5 sap days on averageWeek of Mar 16: 2.8 sap days on averageWeek of Mar 23: 3.5 sap days on averageWeek of Mar 30: 3.9 sap days on averageWeek of Apr 6: 3.5 sap days on averageWeek of Apr 13: 3.6 sap days on averageWeek of Apr 20: 3.0 sap days on averageWeek of Apr 27: 2.4 sap days on averageWeek of May 4: 1.6 sap days on averageWeek of May 11: 1.1 sap days on averageWeek of May 18: 0.5 sap days on averageWeek of May 25: 0.2 sap days on averageDecJanFebMarAprMaytaps in ~Mar 21
Average number of freeze-thaw sap days in each week of the season at Haliburton Village, 1991–2025 (Daymet temperatures). A sap day is an overnight low under −1 °C (30.2 °F) followed by an afternoon high over +3 °C (37.4 °F). The shaded band is the typical season.

Year-to-year spread

Opening signal
Median Mar 21; the middle half of seasons fell between Mar 16 and Mar 25. Earliest Feb 18 (2012), latest Apr 1 (1996).
Closing signal
Median Apr 22; middle half between Apr 17 and Apr 25. Earliest Mar 18 (2012), latest May 4 (1996).
Sap days by month
Dec9%Jan5%Feb10%Mar30%Apr36%May10%

35 seasons of sap weather

Haliburton seasons, 1991–2025

The best sap year at Haliburton Village was 1999 with 56 freeze-thaw days; the leanest was 2008 with 25. Seasons that start early tend to end early too: the trees run on the swing between freezing nights and mild days, and heat ends it.
JanFebMarAprMaysap days20252025: Mar 23 – Apr 23, 38 sap days3820242024: Mar 8 – Apr 9, 44 sap days4420232023: Mar 18 – Apr 20, 44 sap days4420222022: Mar 21 – Apr 20, 45 sap days4520212021: Mar 9 – Apr 6, 32 sap days3220202020: Mar 28 – Apr 29, 55 sap days5520192019: Mar 29 – Apr 29, 31 sap days3120182018: Mar 31 – May 1, 42 sap days4220172017: Mar 15 – Apr 18, 33 sap days3320162016: Mar 20 – Apr 24, 50 sap days5020152015: Mar 25 – Apr 25, 29 sap days2920142014: Mar 28 – Apr 28, 30 sap days3020132013: Mar 24 – Apr 25, 28 sap days2820122012: Feb 18 – Mar 18, 43 sap days4320112011: Mar 25 – Apr 25, 33 sap days3320102010: Mar 1 – Mar 31, 43 sap days4320092009: Mar 21 – Apr 24, 46 sap days4620082008: Mar 31 – Apr 17, 25 sap days2520072007: Mar 19 – Apr 21, 42 sap days4220062006: Mar 15 – Apr 11, 37 sap days3720052005: Mar 21 – Apr 22, 43 sap days4320042004: Mar 19 – Apr 17, 32 sap days3220032003: Mar 22 – Apr 25, 30 sap days3020022002: Mar 13 – Apr 3, 43 sap days4320012001: Mar 22 – Apr 26, 36 sap days3620002000: Mar 11 – Apr 15, 43 sap days4319991999: Mar 16 – Apr 20, 56 sap days5619981998: Mar 10 – Apr 13, 42 sap days4219971997: Mar 27 – Apr 29, 42 sap days4219961996: Apr 1 – May 4, 42 sap days4219951995: Mar 18 – Apr 18, 48 sap days4819941994: Mar 22 – Apr 23, 48 sap days4819931993: Mar 19 – Apr 22, 35 sap days3519921992: Mar 30 – Apr 30, 40 sap days4019911991: Mar 19 – Apr 19, 45 sap days45
Each bar runs from the season's opening signal to its closing signal, estimated from daily Daymet temperatures at Haliburton Village. Dashed lines mark the typical dates. The right column counts freeze-thaw sap days from December through May.

Maple production

Haliburton in the Census of Agriculture

Statistics Canada counts the farms that report maple taps in its Census of Agriculture every five years. In 2021 it counted 14 in Haliburton, with 14,967 taps; in 2016, 24 farms and 17,656 taps. Among Ontario's 29 census divisions with a published tap count, Haliburton ranks 24th, and 89th of the 94 in this atlas.

Over the five years the farm count changed −42% and taps −15%. Statistics Canada cautions that 2021 and 2016 are not strictly comparable: the census-farm definition changed in 2021, and farms were assigned to their main location more strictly.

Statistics Canada doesn't publish syrup volume by census division, so the Canadian pages show farms and taps, not gallons or litres.

Haliburton maple production, 2016 and 2021 (Statistics Canada, Census of Agriculture)
Census yearFarms reporting tapsTaps
20211414,967
20162417,656

Nearby

Neighboring maple divisions

Distances are between reference towns; typical dates are each division's own estimate.

About these numbers

The season dates are estimated from 35 seasons of daily high and low temperatures for the Daymet 1-km grid cell at Haliburton Village, the division's largest population centre in the 2021 Census; the cell sits at 330 m (1,083 ft). Each day is scored with the same freeze-thaw rule as our live forecast: a sap day is an overnight low under −1 °C (30.2 °F) followed by an afternoon high over +3 °C (37.4 °F). A season's closing signal is the last sap day before accumulated warmth reaches a threshold, and the opening signal sits 35 days before that, never earlier than the first real freeze-thaw week. The rule was calibrated on 117 state-seasons of USDA-reported dates in the US and is applied here unchanged. Ontario has no official season record, so the typical dates are a weather estimate. Production figures are copied from Statistics Canada as published. Full method, the Daymet checks and the Quebec validation → Run a sugarhouse here? Put this sap forecast on your own website →

Sources · 7

  1. 1.Maple taps, Census of Agriculture, 2021 (Table 32-10-0362-01) · Statistics Canada
  2. 2.Maple taps, Census of Agriculture, 2011 and 2016 (Table 32-10-0423-01) · Statistics Canada
  3. 3.Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 4 R1 · ORNL DAAC
  4. 4.Sap flow in sugar maple: timing and weather drivers (Frontiers in Agronomy, 2025) · de Lima Santos et al.
  5. 5.2021 Census cartographic boundary files (census divisions, population centres) · Statistics Canada
  6. 6.Population and dwelling counts, 2021 Census (Tables 98-10-0002-01 and 98-10-0011-01) · Statistics Canada
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  1. 7.GeoNames geographical database (CA) · GeoNames

Licences and attribution

  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Census of Agriculture 2021 and 2016 (Tables 32-10-0362-01 and 32-10-0423-01), 2021 Census population and dwelling counts (Tables 98-10-0002-01 and 98-10-0011-01) and 2021 Census cartographic boundary files. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
  • Thornton, M.M., R. Shrestha, Y. Wei, P.E. Thornton, S-C. Kao, and B.E. Wilson. 2022. Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 4 R1. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2129
  • Place coordinates: GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.

FAQ

Haliburton sugaring questions

When should I tap maple trees in Haliburton, Ontario?
In a typical year the sap starts running around March 21 near Haliburton Village and the season winds down around April 22. Have your taps in a day or two before the first forecast string of nights below −1 °C and days above +3 °C. In the past 35 seasons the weather signal came as early as Feb 18 and as late as Apr 1.
How much maple syrup does Haliburton produce?
Statistics Canada doesn't publish syrup volume by census division. Its 2021 Census of Agriculture counted 14 farms reporting 14,967 maple taps in Haliburton, number 24 of 29 Ontario divisions with a published count.
How many sap days does Haliburton get in a season?
On average 39.9 freeze-thaw sap days from December through May at Haliburton Village, of which about 11.3 are textbook days with a night between about −7 and −2 °C and a day between 4 and 9 °C. The best season since 1991 was 1999 (56 sap days); the leanest was 2008 (25).
Where do these dates come from?
From 35 seasons of daily high and low temperatures at Haliburton Village (Daymet 1-km grid), scored with the same freeze-thaw rule as our live forecast. Ontario has no official season record, so they are a weather estimate. They describe a typical year at one point in the division; your sugarbush, slope and elevation can shift them by days.

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