Photo: P199 · Public domainPapineau-Cameron is among the snowiest of Canadian towns: about 312 cm a year
High summer brings afternoon highs near 25.5°C. By January nights alone, it runs colder than 75% of Canadian towns. A year here swings 42°C from midwinter lows to midsummer highs. An umbrella or a shovel earns its place on about 133 days a year with 1 mm or more.
Papineau-Cameron has no ECCC normals station nearby: the figures come from Barrage Témiscamingue, 57 km north-west, so read them as the wider area’s climate.
A year in Papineau-Cameron at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Papineau-Cameron’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Ontario beside it.
What a year in Papineau-Cameron feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
169 frost days and 105 days above 20°C a year
The frost season runs October to May, and January freezes nearly every night. Some 24 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 1,020 mm a year
September brings the most rain and snow; February, the least.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Barrage Témiscamingue publishes no full year of precipitation or snowfall, so these figures, and the snow below, come from North Bay, 58 km away.
Snowfall: about 312 cm in a normal year
From October to May snow is likely; December is the peak, at about 71 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Heating a home in Papineau-Cameron
90% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
A day averaging 10 degrees under 18°C adds 10 to the total; warm days add nothing. In heating terms, homes need more heating than 61% of Canadian towns.
Living with Papineau-Cameron’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Highs of 17–27°C with nights of 8°C or more come in Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Count on some 50 days a year when the wind makes it feel below −20.
Muggy heat with a humidex over 30 arrives on about 32 days a year.
Bad-weather days, from blizzards to floods, get their own page for Papineau-Cameron: the hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Barrage Témiscamingue
Every temperature, frost, snow and degree-day figure on this page is the 1991–2020 normal ECCC publishes for Barrage Témiscamingue.
| Distance from the town | 57 km north-west |
| Station altitude | 181 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | North Bay, 58 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −35.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.6°C |
| Average wind | 9.0 km/h on average, most often from the south |
| Next-nearest location | North Bay, 58 km |
How Papineau-Cameron 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 Ontario.
Nearby towns’ climate
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Papineau-Cameron’s would only repeat its figures. Papineau-Cameron has no close neighbour with figures; the nearest is 36 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papineau-Cameron Barrage Témiscamingue | 25.5°C | −16.0°C | 1,020 mm |
| Bonfield 36 km · North Bay | 24.3°C 1.2°C cooler | −17.3°C 1.3°C colder | 1,020 mm |
Papineau-Cameron weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −6.3°C | −16.0°C | −11.2°C | 70 mm | 70 cm |
| February | −4.3°C | −15.2°C | −9.8°C | 54 mm | 63 cm |
| March | 1.9°C | −9.8°C | −4.0°C | 60 mm | 39 cm |
| April | 9.3°C | −2.1°C | 3.7°C | 72 mm | 18 cm |
| May | 17.8°C | 3.9°C | 10.9°C | 89 mm | 4 cm |
| June | 22.9°C | 10.1°C | 16.5°C | 91 mm | under 1 cm |
| July | 25.5°C | 13.6°C | 19.6°C | 98 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.1°C | 13.2°C | 18.7°C | 93 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 19.4°C | 9.0°C | 14.2°C | 114 mm | under 1 cm |
| October | 11.6°C | 3.4°C | 7.5°C | 109 mm | 9 cm |
| November | 4.0°C | −3.0°C | 0.5°C | 97 mm | 38 cm |
| December | −2.6°C | −10.2°C | −6.5°C | 73 mm | 71 cm |
| Year | 10.3°C | −0.3°C | 5.0°C | 1,020 mm | 312 cm |
The month with the widest range: March, −30.0°C to 27.3°C
Two years in three, January’s average falls within 3.4°C of its normal of −11.2°C; June keeps to within 1.1°C.
Where Papineau-Cameron’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals, Barrage Témiscamingue: the nearest of its locations with every month’s temperatures.
- Other locations: precipitation and snowfall come from the nearest location that publishes all twelve months of them, as named above.
- Comparisons: all Canadian places of 2,500 or more except city totals and reserves, each read the same way.
- 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 Papineau-Cameron’s climate
How warm does Papineau-Cameron get in summer?
On a normal day in July the thermometer climbs to 25.5°C, the warmest of the year.
How cold does Papineau-Cameron get in winter?
At its coldest, in January, the normal low is −16.0°C.
How much rain and snow does Papineau-Cameron get?
Rain and snow, with snow counted as water, total 1,020 mm a year; September leads with 114 mm and February trails with 54 mm.
Are these figures for Papineau-Cameron itself?
No: they come from Barrage Témiscamingue, the nearest ECCC normals location, and far enough away to describe the wider area more than Papineau-Cameron.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Papineau-Cameron →
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).