Photo: Jeff dumais · CC BY 3.0Few Canadian towns have colder winter nights than Albanel
Expect July afternoons of about 23.9°C. Precipitation peaks in July and eases off in February. By July afternoons alone, it runs cooler than 70% of Canadian towns. From June to August, highs of 22–24°C make it easy to spend the day outdoors.
The nearest ECCC normals location to Albanel is Normandin, 10 km south-west, and every figure on this page is its.
A year in Albanel at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Albanel’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Albanel feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
Frost on 203 days, 20°C on 88
The frost season runs September to May, and January freezes nearly every night. Some 61 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
911 mm of precipitation in a typical year
About 124 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Normandin publishes no full year of precipitation or snowfall, so these figures, and the snow below, come from Roberval, 41 km away.
271 cm of snow in a typical year
From October to May snow is likely; December is the peak, at about 55 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Heating a home in Albanel
88% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
The total grows by a degree for every degree a day’s mean sits under 18°C. By this count, homes here need more heating than 98% of Canadian towns.
Living with Albanel’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 and Aug.
Parks & trails →Roughly 90 days a year feel colder than −20 in the wind.
Summer brings about 23 days when the humidex passes 30.
Thirty-year normals hide the storms and the extremes: the hazards page has Albanel’s risks.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Normandin
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for Normandin are 2 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 10 km south-west |
| Station altitude | 137 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Roberval, 41 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −46.6°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 36.5°C |
| Average wind | 13.6 km/h on average, most often from the north-west |
| Next-nearest location | Roberval, 41 km |
How Albanel 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 Quebec.
Nearby towns’ climate
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Albanel’s own would show the same figures). The nearest place to Albanel with figures is 24 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albanel Normandin | 23.9°C | −23.4°C | 911 mm |
| Saint-Félicien 24 km · Roberval | 23.7°C about the same | −20.8°C 2.6°C milder | 911 mm |
Albanel 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 | −10.9°C | −23.4°C | −17.2°C | 55 mm | 47 cm |
| February | −8.5°C | −22.4°C | −15.4°C | 45 mm | 44 cm |
| March | −1.7°C | −15.4°C | −8.4°C | 57 mm | 45 cm |
| April | 6.2°C | −5.0°C | 0.6°C | 64 mm | 29 cm |
| May | 16.3°C | 2.4°C | 9.4°C | 71 mm | 4 cm |
| June | 21.7°C | 8.0°C | 14.9°C | 87 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 23.9°C | 11.1°C | 17.5°C | 112 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 22.6°C | 9.8°C | 16.2°C | 104 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 17.7°C | 5.3°C | 11.5°C | 99 mm | under 1 cm |
| October | 9.6°C | −0.1°C | 4.7°C | 81 mm | 8 cm |
| November | 1.7°C | −6.6°C | −2.5°C | 71 mm | 39 cm |
| December | −6.5°C | −16.9°C | −11.7°C | 66 mm | 55 cm |
| Year | 7.7°C | −4.4°C | 1.6°C | 911 mm | 271 cm |
January has run from −46.6°C to 10.4°C in thirty years
From one year to the next, February’s average typically shifts by 3.3°C around its normal of −15.4°C, the widest of any month, while August’s shifts by 1.0°C.
Where Albanel’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals, Normandin, 1991–2020.
- 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: 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 Albanel’s climate
How warm does Albanel get in summer?
Afternoons average 23.9°C in July, the warmest time of year.
How cold does Albanel get in winter?
Deep winter means January, when nights average −23.4°C.
How much rain and snow does Albanel get?
Rain and snow add up to about 911 mm of water a year; July brings the most (112 mm), February the least (45 mm).
Are these figures for Albanel itself?
Not directly: Albanel has no ECCC normals of its own, and Normandin stands in for it.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Albanel →
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).