Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Hardly any Canadian towns see harsher January nights than Beausejour
On a normal July day the thermometer tops out near 25.2°C. Rain and snow together come to less here than on 68% of Canadian towns. The year is lopsided: June gets about 7.1 times what February does. Ice scrapers and block heaters earn their keep on roughly 194 days a year at 0°C or below.
Borrowed figures: Beausejour has no normals station, so these come from Pinawa, 35 km north-east.
A year in Beausejour at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Beausejour’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba beside it.
What a year in Beausejour feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
194 frost days and 98 days above 20°C a year
The frost season runs September to May, and January freezes nearly every night. On about 54 nights a year the air falls below −20°C.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
571 mm of precipitation in a typical year
4th wettest of 189 towns of 2,500+ in Manitoba. On about 88 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
126 cm of snow in a typical year
The snow season runs October to May; December brings the most, about 27 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Pinawa publishes no full year of snowfall, so these figures come from Winnipeg Richardson (Airport), 53 km away.
Heating a home in Beausejour
90% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Warm days count for nothing; each colder day adds how far its mean sits below 18°C. By this count, homes here need more heating than 96% of Canadian towns.
Living with Beausejour’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
For long days outdoors, Jun, Jul and Aug bring highs of 17–27°C and lows of 8°C or more.
Parks & trails →About 70 days a year bring a wind chill under −20, when bare skin chills fast.
Humid summer days, the humidex above 30, number about 28 a year.
A typical year is calm by definition; Beausejour’s hazards page covers the exceptions.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Pinawa
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for Pinawa are 2 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 35 km north-east |
| Station altitude | 267 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Winnipeg Richardson (Airport), 53 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −43.9°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.4°C |
| Average wind | 8.7 km/h on average, most often from the south |
| Next-nearest location | Winnipeg Richardson (Airport), 53 km |
How Beausejour compares
Against the 2,611 Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, each read from its own normals location; the dots are the other locations those towns use in Manitoba.
Nearby towns’ climate
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Beausejour’s own would show the same figures). No closer place has figures: this one lies 26 km from Beausejour.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beausejour Pinawa | 25.2°C | −21.7°C | 571 mm |
| St. Clements 26 km · Winnipeg Richardson (Airport) | 25.8°C 0.6°C warmer | −21.2°C 0.5°C milder | 519 mm |
Beausejour weather by month
Month by month, 1991–2020: the usual high, low and mean, the rain and snow, and the snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −10.7°C | −21.7°C | −16.2°C | 30 mm | 25 cm |
| February | −7.9°C | −20.7°C | −14.3°C | 14 mm | 12 cm |
| March | 0.1°C | −12.5°C | −6.2°C | 28 mm | 19 cm |
| April | 9.4°C | −3.5°C | 3.0°C | 30 mm | 14 cm |
| May | 16.6°C | 3.6°C | 10.1°C | 71 mm | 4 cm |
| June | 22.1°C | 10.0°C | 16.1°C | 99 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.2°C | 12.8°C | 19.0°C | 83 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.2°C | 11.6°C | 17.9°C | 67 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 18.8°C | 7.0°C | 12.9°C | 63 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 9.9°C | 0.5°C | 5.3°C | 39 mm | 4 cm |
| November | 0.0°C | −8.1°C | −4.1°C | 24 mm | 21 cm |
| December | −7.8°C | −17.0°C | −12.4°C | 25 mm | 27 cm |
| Year | 8.3°C | −3.2°C | 2.6°C | 571 mm | 126 cm |
The month with the widest range: March, −40.5°C to 24.6°C
Two years in three, February’s average falls within 4.0°C of its normal of −14.3°C; July keeps to within 1.2°C.
Where Beausejour’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: 1991–2020 normals for Pinawa from ECCC’s climate data site, the nearest location with every month of temperature.
- Other locations: precipitation and snowfall come from the nearest location that publishes all twelve months of them, as named above.
- Comparisons: a pool of Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, read alike; whole cities and reserves stay out of it.
- Not on this page: a sunshine figure (ECCC published none for 1991–2020) and any lapse-rate correction for height, as the town has no elevation here.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Beausejour’s climate
How warm does Beausejour get in summer?
The year’s warmest days come in July, with highs averaging 25.2°C.
How cold does Beausejour get in winter?
Deep winter means January, when nights average −21.7°C.
How much rain and snow does Beausejour get?
Count on roughly 571 mm a year, heaviest in June (99 mm) and lightest in February (14 mm).
Are these figures for Beausejour itself?
Not directly: Beausejour has no ECCC normals of its own, and Pinawa stands in for it.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Beausejour →
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).