Musquash has some of the coolest summers among Canadian towns
Deep winter brings January lows near −9.5°C. Counting rain and snow together, it is wetter than 83% of Canadian towns. Temperatures cover 30°C across the year, low to high. The outdoor season runs from June to September, with highs of 17–21°C.
ECCC publishes no normals for Musquash itself; the figures are those of Point Lepreau, 10 km south-west.
A year in Musquash at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Musquash’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in New Brunswick beside it.
What a year in Musquash feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on 135 days, 20°C on 45
The frost season runs October to May, and January freezes nearly every night.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
Rain and melted snow: about 1,125 mm a year
The most falls in October, the least in August. Some 109 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
215 cm of snow in a typical year
Snow falls from November to April, most of all in January (about 60 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snowfall: Saint John, 43 km away (Point Lepreau records no complete year of it).
Heating a home in Musquash
84% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
The count adds up, day by day, how far the mean temperature falls short of 18°C. Over a year, a home here needs less heating than 66% of Canadian towns.
Living with Musquash’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
The frost-free stretch runs from about 4 May to about 17 October, some 165 days in a normal year.
For long days outdoors, Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep bring highs of 17–27°C and lows of 8°C or more.
Parks & trails →Roughly 21 days a year feel colder than −20 in the wind.
Humid heat, a humidex over 30, comes on about 4 days a year.
What averages leave out, the floods and ice storms, is on Musquash’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Point Lepreau
The page’s figures are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Point Lepreau, one of its 450 normals locations.
| Distance from the town | 10 km south-west |
| Station altitude | 13 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Saint John, 43 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −26.6°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 31.6°C |
| Average wind | 12.0 km/h on average, most often from the north-west |
| Next-nearest location | Saint John, 43 km |
How Musquash 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
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Musquash’s own would show the same figures). The nearest place to Musquash with figures is 26 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Musquash Point Lepreau | 19.9°C | −9.5°C | 1,125 mm |
| Grand Bay-Westfield 26 km · Saint John | 23.0°C 3.1°C warmer | −13.2°C 3.7°C colder | 1,271 mm |
Musquash weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −0.5°C | −9.5°C | −5.0°C | 82 mm | 60 cm |
| February | 0.3°C | −8.7°C | −4.2°C | 74 mm | 46 cm |
| March | 3.6°C | −4.4°C | −0.4°C | 94 mm | 37 cm |
| April | 8.4°C | 0.6°C | 4.5°C | 100 mm | 16 cm |
| May | 13.1°C | 5.0°C | 9.1°C | 96 mm | 1 cm |
| June | 17.3°C | 9.1°C | 13.2°C | 109 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 19.9°C | 12.0°C | 15.9°C | 76 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 20.7°C | 12.4°C | 16.6°C | 65 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 18.1°C | 9.9°C | 14.0°C | 99 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 13.2°C | 5.4°C | 9.3°C | 120 mm | 1 cm |
| November | 8.2°C | 0.5°C | 4.3°C | 103 mm | 13 cm |
| December | 2.9°C | −5.2°C | −1.1°C | 108 mm | 42 cm |
| Year | 10.4°C | 2.3°C | 6.4°C | 1,125 mm | 215 cm |
In December, anything from −25.4°C to 18.8°C
Bars run from each month’s record low to its record high over 1991–2020; January is the month whose average wanders most from year to year (±2.3°C around −5.0°C), August the one that wanders least (±0.7°C).
Where Musquash’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals, Point Lepreau, 1991–2020.
- 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: 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 Musquash’s climate
How warm does Musquash get in summer?
The year’s warmest days come in August, with highs averaging 20.7°C.
How cold does Musquash get in winter?
At its coldest, in January, the normal low is −9.5°C.
How much rain and snow does Musquash get?
About 1,125 mm a year, rain and melted snow together. October is the wettest month (120 mm) and August the driest (65 mm).
Are these figures for Musquash itself?
No, they come from Point Lepreau; ECCC keeps no 1991–2020 normals in Musquash itself.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Musquash →
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).