Hardly any Canadian towns see fresher July days than Division No. 4, Subdivision A
January mornings start at about −7.6°C. The gap between a January night and a July afternoon is 28°C. Counting rain and snow together, it is wetter than 93% of Canadian towns. Frost comes on about 154 days a year, so leave time to clear the car.
These are not Division No. 4, Subdivision A’s own readings: ECCC keeps no normals there, so the page uses Port Aux Basques, 27 km south.
A year in Division No. 4, Subdivision A at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Division No. 4, Subdivision A’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Newfoundland and Labrador beside it.
What a year in Division No. 4, Subdivision A feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
Frost on 154 days, 20°C on 20
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
About 1,316 mm of rain and snow a year
September brings the most rain and snow; April, the least. On about 174 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Port Aux Basques publishes no full year of precipitation or snowfall, so these figures, and the snow below, come from Stephenville, 97 km away.
386 cm of snow in a typical year
Snow falls from October to May, most of all in January (about 107 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Heating a home in Division No. 4, Subdivision A
80% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
One degree below 18°C for one day makes one heating degree day; the year’s days are added together.
Living with Division No. 4, Subdivision A’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Plan time outside for Jul and Aug: highs of 17–27°C and nights no colder than 8°C.
Parks & trails →Count on some 20 days a year when the wind makes it feel below −20.
Bad-weather days, from blizzards to floods, get their own page for Division No. 4, Subdivision A: the hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Port Aux Basques
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for Port Aux Basques are 2 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 27 km south |
| Station altitude | 40 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Stephenville, 97 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −24.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 26.8°C |
| Average wind | 25.4 km/h on average, most often from the east |
| Next-nearest location | St. Paul Island, 91 km |
How Division No. 4, Subdivision A 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
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Division No. 4, Subdivision A’s would only repeat its figures. No closer place has figures: this one lies 58 km from Division No. 4, Subdivision A.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Division No. 4, Subdivision A Port Aux Basques | 17.6°C | −7.6°C | 1,316 mm |
| Division No. 4, Subdivision B 58 km · Stephenville | 20.3°C 2.7°C warmer | −9.0°C 1.4°C colder | 1,316 mm |
Division No. 4, Subdivision A weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −1.5°C | −7.6°C | −4.6°C | 121 mm | 107 cm |
| February | −2.1°C | −8.5°C | −5.3°C | 107 mm | 97 cm |
| March | 0.1°C | −5.9°C | −2.9°C | 89 mm | 55 cm |
| April | 4.1°C | −1.6°C | 1.2°C | 78 mm | 17 cm |
| May | 9.2°C | 2.5°C | 5.9°C | 100 mm | 3 cm |
| June | 13.3°C | 6.7°C | 10.0°C | 93 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 17.6°C | 11.5°C | 14.6°C | 115 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 19.5°C | 13.0°C | 16.2°C | 117 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 15.8°C | 9.1°C | 12.5°C | 131 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 10.9°C | 4.9°C | 7.9°C | 130 mm | 3 cm |
| November | 6.1°C | 0.7°C | 3.4°C | 119 mm | 24 cm |
| December | 1.8°C | −3.4°C | −0.8°C | 117 mm | 81 cm |
| Year | 7.9°C | 1.8°C | 4.8°C | 1,316 mm | 386 cm |
From −24.0°C to 10.4°C: February’s coldest and warmest days since 1991
The month to count on least is February: one year in three its average strays more than 2.1°C from −5.3°C. June moves least, typically by 0.9°C.
Where Division No. 4, Subdivision A’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals for Port Aux Basques, the nearest location with a full year of temperatures.
- Other locations: a location missing months of precipitation or snow is filled from the nearest that has them all, never mixed month by month.
- Comparisons: every place of 2,500+ in Canada but the city hubs and the reserves, each on its nearest ECCC 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 Division No. 4, Subdivision A’s climate
How warm does Division No. 4, Subdivision A get in summer?
A normal August afternoon tops out at about 19.5°C, the year’s high point.
How cold does Division No. 4, Subdivision A get in winter?
Of all twelve months, February has the coldest nights, about −8.5°C.
How much rain and snow does Division No. 4, Subdivision A get?
Around 1,316 mm a year in all, from 131 mm in September down to 78 mm in April.
Are these figures for Division No. 4, Subdivision A itself?
The figures are ECCC’s for Port Aux Basques; Division No. 4, Subdivision A has no normals station.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Division No. 4, Subdivision A →
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