Photo: Dr Wilson · CC BY-SA 3.0More rain and snow fall on Cap-Pelé than on 89% of Canadian towns: 1,203 mm a year
Expect July afternoons of about 25.1°C. Rain or snow is most frequent in October and least in August. Ice scrapers and block heaters earn their keep on roughly 170 days a year at 0°C or below.
These are not Cap-Pelé’s own readings: ECCC keeps no normals there, so the page uses Moncton, 33 km west.
A year in Cap-Pelé at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Cap-Pelé’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in New Brunswick beside it.
What a year in Cap-Pelé feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
170 frost days and 98 days above 20°C a year
From October to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. On about 12 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
1,203 mm of precipitation in a typical year
9th wettest of 60 towns of 2,500+ in New Brunswick. About 129 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
310 cm of snow in a typical year
Expect snow from October to May, with about 74 cm in January, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Cap-Pelé
89% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
ECCC sums, over the year, how many degrees each day’s average falls short of 18°C.
Living with Cap-Pelé’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Seedlings can go out once the average last frost, around 19 May, has passed; autumn’s first, near 2 October, ends a season of about 135 days.
Warm afternoons without cold nights, 17–27°C and 8°C or more, mark Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Count on some 43 days a year when the wind makes it feel below −20.
Summer brings about 34 days when the humidex passes 30.
Bad-weather days, from blizzards to floods, get their own page for Cap-Pelé: the hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Moncton
ECCC builds the Moncton normals from 2 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 33 km west |
| Station altitude | 71 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −31.4°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.6°C |
| Average wind | 16.7 km/h on average, most often from the south-west |
| Next-nearest location | Summerside, 42 km |
How Cap-Pelé 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
Places around Cap-Pelé whose figures come from another normals location. The nearest places to Cap-Pelé with figures are 25–28 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cap-Pelé Moncton | 25.1°C | −13.3°C | 1,203 mm |
| Dundas 25 km · Bouctouche | 25.1°C about the same | −13.2°C about the same | 1,002 mm |
| Botsford 26 km · Summerside | 24.1°C 1.0°C cooler | −11.3°C 2.0°C milder | 1,161 mm |
| Westmorland 28 km · Nappan | 24.3°C 0.8°C cooler | −11.7°C 1.6°C milder | 1,161 mm |
Cap-Pelé weather by month
Average daily high and low, mean temperature, rain and snow (as water) and snowfall by month, 1991–2020.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −3.5°C | −13.3°C | −8.4°C | 102 mm | 74 cm |
| February | −2.5°C | −12.7°C | −7.6°C | 88 mm | 65 cm |
| March | 2.2°C | −7.4°C | −2.6°C | 111 mm | 60 cm |
| April | 8.6°C | −1.5°C | 3.6°C | 94 mm | 29 cm |
| May | 16.1°C | 3.9°C | 10.0°C | 98 mm | 2 cm |
| June | 21.3°C | 9.2°C | 15.3°C | 95 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.1°C | 13.4°C | 19.3°C | 87 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.7°C | 12.7°C | 18.7°C | 77 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.2°C | 8.1°C | 14.2°C | 103 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 13.2°C | 2.9°C | 8.1°C | 124 mm | 2 cm |
| November | 6.3°C | −2.2°C | 2.1°C | 109 mm | 19 cm |
| December | 0.0°C | −8.7°C | −4.4°C | 115 mm | 59 cm |
| Year | 11.0°C | 0.4°C | 5.7°C | 1,203 mm | 310 cm |
January varies most from one year to the next (2.5°C), August least
Bars run from each month’s record low to its record high since 1991. March spans the most, from −24.5°C (1992) to 26.1°C (2012).
Where Cap-Pelé’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals for Moncton, the nearest location with a full year of temperatures.
- Comparisons: all Canadian places of 2,500 or more except city totals and reserves, each read the same way.
- 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 Cap-Pelé’s climate
How warm does Cap-Pelé get in summer?
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 25.1°C.
How cold does Cap-Pelé get in winter?
Of all twelve months, January has the coldest nights, about −13.3°C.
How much rain and snow does Cap-Pelé get?
Around 1,203 mm a year in all, from 124 mm in October down to 77 mm in August.
How long does snow stay on the ground?
A layer of at least 1 cm stays down on about 120 days a year.
Are these figures for Cap-Pelé itself?
No, the station behind them is Moncton, beyond Cap-Pelé’s boundary.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Cap-Pelé →
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).