Photo: Not specified · Public domainSaint James is wetter than 83% of Canadian towns: 1,125 mm of rain and snow a year
The depth of winter brings overnight lows near −13.6°C. The year swings widely: the coldest month’s nights and the warmest month’s afternoons are 39°C apart. About 109 days a year bring 1 mm of precipitation or more.
Borrowed figures: Saint James has no normals station, so these come from St. Stephen, 13 km south.
A year in Saint James at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Saint James’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in New Brunswick beside it.
What a year in Saint James feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
About 172 frosts a year
From September to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. On about 16 nights a year the air falls below −20°C.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
1,125 mm of precipitation in a typical year
October is the wettest month and August the driest.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
ECCC’s St. Stephen normals leave precipitation out; the figures here come from Point Lepreau, 72 km away.
About 241 cm of snow a year
Expect snow from November to April, with about 64 cm in January, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snowfall: Fredericton (Airport), 85 km away (St. Stephen records no complete year of it).
Living with Saint James’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Warm afternoons without cold nights, 17–27°C and 8°C or more, mark Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →About 26 days a year bring a wind chill under −20, when bare skin chills fast.
The humidex tops 30 on about 37 days a year: muggy days to plan around.
A typical year is calm by definition; Saint James’s hazards page covers the exceptions.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: St. Stephen
ECCC builds the St. Stephen normals from 2 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 13 km south |
| Station altitude | 26 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Point Lepreau, 72 km |
| Snowfall from | Fredericton (Airport), 85 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −33.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.2°C |
| Average wind | 7.5 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Point Lepreau, 72 km |
How Saint James 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 Saint James’s own would show the same figures). Distances here run 43–46 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Saint James.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint James St. Stephen | 25.7°C | −13.6°C | 1,125 mm |
| St. George 43 km · Point Lepreau | 19.9°C 5.8°C cooler | −9.5°C 4.1°C milder | 1,125 mm |
| Manners Sutton 46 km · Fredericton (Airport) | 25.9°C about the same | −14.6°C 1.0°C colder | 1,022 mm |
Saint James weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −2.1°C | −13.6°C | −8.0°C | 82 mm | 64 cm |
| February | −0.5°C | −12.7°C | −6.6°C | 74 mm | 49 cm |
| March | 4.0°C | −7.3°C | −1.7°C | 94 mm | 46 cm |
| April | 10.7°C | −1.0°C | 4.8°C | 100 mm | 17 cm |
| May | 17.4°C | 4.2°C | 10.9°C | 96 mm | 1 cm |
| June | 22.1°C | 9.1°C | 15.6°C | 109 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.7°C | 12.7°C | 19.2°C | 76 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.3°C | 11.9°C | 18.6°C | 65 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 21.3°C | 7.5°C | 14.4°C | 99 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 14.0°C | 2.1°C | 8.1°C | 120 mm | 1 cm |
| November | 7.2°C | −2.6°C | 2.3°C | 103 mm | 13 cm |
| December | 1.2°C | −8.9°C | −3.9°C | 108 mm | 52 cm |
| Year | 12.2°C | 0.1°C | 6.2°C | 1,125 mm | 241 cm |
From year to year, February moves by 2.7°C, more than any month, and August least
March has the widest record range, −27.8°C in 2001 to 28.6°C in 2012; the tick on each bar is the month’s normal.
Where Saint James’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals, St. Stephen, 1991–2020.
- Other locations: precipitation and snowfall come from the nearest location that publishes all twelve months of them, as named above.
- Comparisons: Canada’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ (no city totals, no reserves), each through its own nearest location.
- 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 Saint James’s climate
How warm does Saint James get in summer?
Highs reach 25.7°C on an average July day; no month is warmer.
How cold does Saint James get in winter?
Expect nights around −13.6°C in January; no month is colder.
How much rain and snow does Saint James get?
Precipitation totals 1,125 mm a year, with October the wettest month (120 mm) and August the driest (65 mm).
Are these figures for Saint James itself?
They describe St. Stephen, the nearest normals location, rather than Saint James itself.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Saint James →
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).