Photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/9674922@N04/ Lucia · CC0Baie Verte has some of the coolest summers among Canadian towns
The coldest hours of a January night bottom out at −12.5°C on average. Frosty nights outnumber those of 95% of Canadian towns. Seasons differ by 35°C, from the coldest nights to the warmest afternoons. Windshields need scraping on about 204 mornings a year, the days the air reaches 0°C or below.
These are not Baie Verte’s own readings: ECCC keeps no normals there, so the page uses Middle Arm, 31 km south.
A year in Baie Verte at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Baie Verte’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Newfoundland and Labrador beside it.
What a year in Baie Verte feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
204 frost days and 59 days above 20°C a year
Frost comes from September to June; in January almost every night freezes. Some 7 nights a year drop under −20°C.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
Rain and melted snow: about 1,215 mm a year
October is the wettest month and March the driest. 28th wettest of 33 towns of 2,500+ in Newfoundland and Labrador. On about 143 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
345 cm of snow in a typical year
Expect snow from October to June, with about 84 cm in February, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Baie Verte
82% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
Every day colder than 18°C on average adds its gap in degrees to the year’s heating total. By this count, homes here need more heating than 81% of Canadian towns.
Living with Baie Verte’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
A normal year gives the garden about 102 frost-free days, roughly 15 June to 25 September.
Highs of 17–27°C with nights of 8°C or more come in Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →For the weather that does damage, from ice storms to floods, see Baie Verte’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Middle Arm
Every temperature, frost, snow and degree-day figure on this page is the 1991–2020 normal ECCC publishes for Middle Arm.
| Distance from the town | 31 km south |
| Station altitude | 48 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −28.5°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 36.5°C |
| Next-nearest location | La Scie, 37 km |
How Baie Verte compares
Placed among 2,611 Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+, each on its nearest normals location; each dot is another location used in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Nearby towns’ climate
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Baie Verte’s own would show the same figures). Distances here run 108–116 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Baie Verte.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baie Verte Middle Arm | 21.5°C | −12.5°C | 1,215 mm |
| Twillingate 108 km · Twillingate | 19.9°C 1.6°C cooler | −7.7°C 4.8°C milder | 1,247 mm |
| Botwood 108 km · Badger | 24.1°C 2.6°C warmer | −13.9°C 1.4°C colder | 1,247 mm |
| Lewisporte 113 km · Gander | 21.8°C about the same | −10.4°C 2.1°C milder | 1,247 mm |
Baie Verte 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 | −2.5°C | −12.5°C | −7.5°C | 96 mm | 76 cm |
| February | −2.5°C | −12.8°C | −7.7°C | 94 mm | 84 cm |
| March | 0.9°C | −9.2°C | −4.2°C | 76 mm | 61 cm |
| April | 5.7°C | −3.9°C | 0.9°C | 80 mm | 30 cm |
| May | 11.3°C | 0.2°C | 5.7°C | 96 mm | 5 cm |
| June | 16.5°C | 4.9°C | 10.7°C | 101 mm | 1 cm |
| July | 21.5°C | 9.8°C | 15.7°C | 105 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 21.7°C | 10.5°C | 16.1°C | 105 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 17.3°C | 6.3°C | 11.8°C | 119 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 10.9°C | 1.4°C | 6.1°C | 124 mm | 4 cm |
| November | 5.3°C | −3.1°C | 1.1°C | 113 mm | 23 cm |
| December | 0.3°C | −8.2°C | −3.9°C | 105 mm | 61 cm |
| Year | 8.9°C | −1.4°C | 3.7°C | 1,215 mm | 345 cm |
From −26.5°C to 15.0°C: January’s coldest and warmest days since 1991
From one year to the next, February’s average typically shifts by 2.5°C around its normal of −7.7°C, the widest of any month, while August’s shifts by 0.9°C.
Where Baie Verte’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals at Middle Arm, the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals.
- 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: a sunshine figure (ECCC published none for 1991–2020) and any lapse-rate correction for height, as the town has no elevation here.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Baie Verte’s climate
How warm does Baie Verte get in summer?
Highs reach 21.7°C on an average August day; no month is warmer.
How cold does Baie Verte get in winter?
Of all twelve months, February has the coldest nights, about −12.8°C.
How much rain and snow does Baie Verte get?
The yearly total is about 1,215 mm. October gets 124 mm, the most of any month; March gets 76 mm, the least.
How long does snow stay on the ground?
Snow covers the ground, 1 cm or more, on about 129 days a year.
Are these figures for Baie Verte itself?
They come from Middle Arm, which ECCC uses as the nearest normals location for Baie Verte.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Baie Verte →
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).