Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Weather without surprises: Bouctouche keeps close to the norm for Canadian towns
July afternoons reach 25.1°C on a typical day and January nights drop to −13.2°C; 1,002 mm of rain and melted snow falls in a year. Counting rain and snow together, it is wetter than 68% of Canadian towns. Of all months, October brings the most precipitation and February the least. Expect about 166 frosty starts a year, days when the air falls to freezing.
Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals at its Bouctouche station, 5.7 km south-west.
A year in Bouctouche at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Bouctouche’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in New Brunswick beside it.
What a year in Bouctouche feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
Frost on 166 days, 20°C on 99
From October to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 13 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
Rain and melted snow: about 1,002 mm a year
53rd wettest of 60 towns of 2,500+ in New Brunswick. Some 120 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
310 cm of snow in a typical year
The snow season runs October to May; January brings the most, about 74 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
ECCC’s Bouctouche normals leave snowfall out; the figures here come from Moncton, 40 km away.
Heating a home in Bouctouche
89% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Every day colder than 18°C on average adds its gap in degrees to the year’s heating total.
Living with Bouctouche’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
The frost-free stretch runs from about 14 May to about 3 October, some 141 days in a normal year.
Mild days and mild nights together (17–27°C by day, 8°C or more at night) belong to Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Thirty years of averages say little about one bad storm; Bouctouche’s hazards page does.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Bouctouche
ECCC builds the Bouctouche normals from 2 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 5.7 km south-west |
| Station altitude | 36 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Moncton, 40 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −31.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 36.0°C |
| Next-nearest location | Kouchibougauac, 39 km |
How Bouctouche 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 New Brunswick.
Nearby towns’ climate
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Bouctouche’s would only repeat its figures. Bouctouche has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 23–29 km out.
Bouctouche weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −3.4°C | −13.2°C | −8.3°C | 72 mm | 74 cm |
| February | −2.3°C | −12.7°C | −7.5°C | 59 mm | 65 cm |
| March | 2.0°C | −7.5°C | −2.8°C | 79 mm | 60 cm |
| April | 8.3°C | −1.3°C | 3.5°C | 69 mm | 29 cm |
| May | 15.7°C | 4.5°C | 10.2°C | 93 mm | 2 cm |
| June | 21.3°C | 10.2°C | 15.8°C | 82 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.1°C | 14.2°C | 19.7°C | 89 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.6°C | 13.4°C | 19.1°C | 74 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.2°C | 9.1°C | 14.7°C | 101 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 13.1°C | 3.4°C | 8.3°C | 106 mm | 2 cm |
| November | 6.3°C | −2.0°C | 2.2°C | 92 mm | 19 cm |
| December | 0.0°C | −8.3°C | −4.1°C | 86 mm | 59 cm |
| Year | 10.9°C | 0.8°C | 5.9°C | 1,002 mm | 310 cm |
The most changeable month: February, give or take 2.5°C; the steadiest, August
Bars run from each month’s record low to its record high since 1991. March spans the most, from −27.0°C (1997) to 26.0°C (2012).
Where Bouctouche’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s normals for Bouctouche, 1991–2020, chosen as the nearest location with a full temperature record.
- Other locations: ECCC blanks a month that fails its completeness rule, so the precipitation or snowfall here comes from the next location with all twelve months.
- Comparisons: the towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ across Canada, each on its nearest normals location, without the city totals or the reserves.
- Not on this page: sunshine, not in ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals, and the effect of the town’s height, for which there is no figure.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Bouctouche’s climate
How warm does Bouctouche get in summer?
Summer peaks in July: a typical afternoon reaches 25.1°C.
How cold does Bouctouche get in winter?
Lows sink to −13.2°C on an average January night.
How much rain and snow does Bouctouche get?
1,002 mm a year counting snow as water. The wettest month is October (106 mm); the driest, February (59 mm).
Are these figures for Bouctouche itself?
Nearly: Bouctouche, the location behind them, sits just beyond Bouctouche’s boundary.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Bouctouche →
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).