Photo: Red Castle · CC BY-SA 4.0Hardly any Canadian towns see more snow than Lamèque, with about 343 cm a year
In July the day’s top temperature is typically 23.6°C. Summers stay cool: July afternoons here are cooler than in 72% of Canadian towns. Rain or snow is most frequent in October and least in February. Windshields need scraping on about 164 mornings a year, the days the air reaches 0°C or below.
Lamèque has no ECCC normals station of its own: every figure here comes from Bas Caraquet, 15 km west.
A year in Lamèque at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Lamèque’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in New Brunswick beside it.
What a year in Lamèque feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on 164 days, 20°C on 81
From October to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 9 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
984 mm of precipitation in a typical year
57th wettest of 61 towns of 2,500+ in New Brunswick. About 123 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
343 cm of snow in a typical year
From October to May snow is likely; February is the peak, at about 84 cm. The snowiest of 61 towns of 2,500+ in New Brunswick.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Heating a home in Lamèque
88% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
Behind the figure: the degrees each day’s mean falls under 18°C, summed for the year.
Living with Lamèque’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Wait until about 17 May to plant out; frost tends to come back around 13 October, about 148 days later.
Afternoons of 17–27°C and nights of at least 8°C arrive in Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →About 42 days a year bring a wind chill under −20, when bare skin chills fast.
The air feels heavier than 30 on the humidex for about 25 days a year.
Storms, floods and heat waves sit outside these normals; Lamèque’s hazards page covers them.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Bas Caraquet
Bas Caraquet is a composite: ECCC joins 2 stations’ readings to make its 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 15 km west |
| Station altitude | 5 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −31.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.8°C |
| Average wind | 16.2 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Miscou Island, 24 km |
How Lamèque compares
Compared with 2,611 towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more across Canada; the dots mark the other normals locations in New Brunswick.
Nearby towns’ climate
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Lamèque’s own would show the same figures). The nearest places to Lamèque with figures are 49–59 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lamèque Bas Caraquet | 23.6°C | −12.7°C | 984 mm |
| Port-Daniel--Gascons 49 km · New Carlisle | 22.7°C 0.9°C cooler | −14.2°C 1.5°C colder | 1,095 mm |
| Chandler 59 km · Miscou Island | 22.3°C 1.3°C cooler | −11.8°C 0.9°C milder | 1,161 mm |
Lamèque 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 | −5.2°C | −12.7°C | −9.0°C | 71 mm | 72 cm |
| February | −4.7°C | −13.2°C | −9.0°C | 69 mm | 84 cm |
| March | 0.2°C | −8.2°C | −4.0°C | 74 mm | 61 cm |
| April | 6.1°C | −1.8°C | 2.2°C | 70 mm | 26 cm |
| May | 13.9°C | 4.1°C | 9.0°C | 84 mm | 3 cm |
| June | 19.9°C | 10.0°C | 15.0°C | 74 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 23.6°C | 14.3°C | 19.0°C | 80 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 23.2°C | 13.9°C | 18.6°C | 85 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 18.7°C | 9.8°C | 14.2°C | 84 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 11.6°C | 4.2°C | 8.0°C | 110 mm | 2 cm |
| November | 5.0°C | −1.2°C | 1.9°C | 93 mm | 19 cm |
| December | −1.0°C | −7.1°C | −4.1°C | 90 mm | 77 cm |
| Year | 9.3°C | 1.0°C | 5.2°C | 984 mm | 343 cm |
The month with the widest range: March, −25.3°C to 20.2°C
Bars run from each month’s record low to its record high over 1991–2020; February is the month whose average wanders most from year to year (±2.5°C around −9.0°C), August the one that wanders least (±0.9°C).
Where Lamèque’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s normals for Bas Caraquet, 1991–2020, chosen as the nearest location with a full temperature record.
- Comparisons: the 2,500-plus towns and neighbourhoods of Canada, each read from its closest normals location; whole cities and reserves aren’t counted.
- Not on this page: sunshine, absent from every 1991–2020 location, and an altitude correction, for want of the town’s own elevation.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Lamèque’s climate
How warm does Lamèque get in summer?
A normal July afternoon tops out at about 23.6°C, the year’s high point.
How cold does Lamèque get in winter?
Deep winter means February, when nights average −13.2°C.
How much rain and snow does Lamèque get?
Rain and snow, with snow counted as water, total 984 mm a year; October leads with 110 mm and February trails with 69 mm.
Are these figures for Lamèque itself?
Only indirectly: the readings are made at Bas Caraquet, outside Lamèque.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Lamèque →
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).