Highest temperature in Toronto on August 2?

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Market context

Toronto’s temperature on 2 August will be set by the highest reading at Pearson Airport, and the market is really a call on whether the day finishes in a mild, warm, or notably hot range rather than on the exact decimal value. August in Toronto typically sits around the mid-20s Celsius on the daily high, with long-run August records far above that level, so the distribution is wide even though the median day is moderate.[2][18]

That helps explain why the current 0% YES reading looks detached from climate history rather than impossible in meteorological terms. Toronto’s August average high is about 26.1°C, while the city’s all-time August record reaches 38.9°C; even individual early-August dates have produced highs in the mid-30s, including 33.9°C on 2 August in the historical daily record set.[2] Recent Augusts have usually topped out in the mid-to-high 20s, with yearly August highs at Toronto often landing around 25–29°C, which is the sort of band traders would normally anchor to absent an approaching heat spike.[1][3]

The key catalyst is the short-range forecast and any heat warnings for the Greater Toronto Area, because a small shift in expected maxima can move the highest daily reading across settlement bands. Traders should watch Environment Canada and local broadcast forecasts, plus any updates from Weather Underground’s airport history page as the day progresses, since this market resolves off the Pearson Airport station rather than downtown Toronto.[15] With settlement ending at 12:00 UTC on 2 August, the market is leaning on whether the warmest part of the afternoon can arrive before the cut-off and whether cloud, rain, or lake influence suppresses the peak.

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Methodology

This page tracks Highest temperature in Toronto on August 2? across four political prediction venues. Live odds come from the Polymarket order book (the deepest political prediction-market book). Kalshi is the CFTC-regulated US alternative, Betfair the established UK sports-exchange with politics markets, Manifold the open play-money variant. For users geo-blocked from Polymarket directly, brokers like Trump Prediction provide a 0%-fee route into the same order book.

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