Photo: Verne Equinox · CC BY 3.0Richibucto 15 is wetter than 91% of Canadian towns: 1,240 mm of rain and snow a year
Midwinter brings lows of about −14.1°C. October is the wettest month, August the driest. About 176 nights a year bring a frost, more than in 61% of Canadian towns. Expect about 176 frosty starts a year, days when the air falls to freezing.
Richibucto 15 has no ECCC normals station of its own: every figure here comes from Kouchibougauac, 20 km north.
A year in Richibucto 15 at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Richibucto 15’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in New Brunswick beside it.
What a year in Richibucto 15 feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
About 176 frosts and 104 warm days a year
The frost season runs September to May, and January freezes nearly every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 15 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 1,240 mm a year
9th wettest of 61 towns of 2,500+ in New Brunswick. About 121 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
About 310 cm of snow a 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
Snowfall: Moncton, 58 km away (Kouchibougauac records no complete year of it).
Heating a home in Richibucto 15
89% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
The count adds up, day by day, how far the mean temperature falls short of 18°C.
Living with Richibucto 15’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Plan time outside for Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep: highs of 17–27°C and nights no colder than 8°C.
Parks & trails →Ice storms, floods and heat waves are risks, not averages: they are on Richibucto 15’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Kouchibougauac
Kouchibougauac is a composite: ECCC joins 3 stations’ readings to make its 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 20 km north |
| Station altitude | 35 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Moncton, 58 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −32.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 37.3°C |
| Next-nearest location | Bouctouche, 25 km |
How Richibucto 15 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 Richibucto 15’s own would show the same figures). The nearest place to Richibucto 15 with figures is 16 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richibucto 15 Kouchibougauac | 25.8°C | −14.1°C | 1,240 mm |
| Richibucto 16 km · Bouctouche | 25.1°C 0.7°C cooler | −13.2°C 0.9°C milder | 1,002 mm |
Richibucto 15 weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −3.7°C | −14.1°C | −8.9°C | 116 mm | 74 cm |
| February | −1.8°C | −13.3°C | −7.6°C | 90 mm | 65 cm |
| March | 3.2°C | −7.9°C | −2.4°C | 116 mm | 60 cm |
| April | 9.3°C | −1.9°C | 3.8°C | 96 mm | 29 cm |
| May | 16.5°C | 3.6°C | 10.1°C | 89 mm | 2 cm |
| June | 22.3°C | 9.4°C | 15.9°C | 95 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.8°C | 13.6°C | 19.7°C | 93 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.4°C | 12.8°C | 19.1°C | 83 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.5°C | 8.2°C | 14.4°C | 96 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 13.2°C | 2.7°C | 8.0°C | 133 mm | 2 cm |
| November | 6.0°C | −2.6°C | 1.7°C | 109 mm | 19 cm |
| December | −0.4°C | −8.9°C | −4.7°C | 124 mm | 59 cm |
| Year | 11.4°C | 0.1°C | 5.7°C | 1,240 mm | 310 cm |
The most changeable month: January, give or take 2.4°C; the steadiest, August
Each bar spans a month’s coldest and warmest readings over thirty years; March’s run from −27.7°C in 1997 to 26.6°C in 2012.
Where Richibucto 15’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals at Kouchibougauac, the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals.
- Other locations: where a location publishes no full year of precipitation or snowfall, the nearest one that does supplies it, named beside those figures.
- Comparisons: Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of at least 2,500, each placed by its nearest location (city totals and reserves excluded).
- 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 Richibucto 15’s climate
How warm does Richibucto 15 get in summer?
Highs reach 25.8°C on an average July day; no month is warmer.
How cold does Richibucto 15 get in winter?
Deep winter means January, when nights average −14.1°C.
How much rain and snow does Richibucto 15 get?
Precipitation totals 1,240 mm a year, with October the wettest month (133 mm) and August the driest (83 mm).
Are these figures for Richibucto 15 itself?
They describe Kouchibougauac, the nearest normals location, rather than Richibucto 15 itself.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Richibucto 15 →
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).