Ascot Corner gets more snow than 89% of Canadian towns: about 269 cm a year
January mornings start at about −16.5°C. Winter nights are cold: in January they are colder than in 78% of Canadian towns. The gap between a January night and a July afternoon is 42°C. About 147 days a year bring 1 mm of precipitation or more.
No ECCC station in Ascot Corner has 1991–2020 normals; the page reads Sherbrooke, 7.9 km east, instead.
A year in Ascot Corner at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Ascot Corner’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Ascot Corner feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
181 frost days and 111 days above 20°C a year
Frost comes from September to May; in January almost every night freezes. On about 30 nights a year the air falls below −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 1,015 mm a year
The most falls in August, the least in February.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Precipitation: Lennoxville, 9.5 km away (Sherbrooke records no complete year of it).
269 cm of snow in a typical year
Snow falls from October to April, most of all in December (about 65 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
ECCC’s Sherbrooke normals leave snowfall out; the figures here come from Richmond, 33 km away.
Heating a home in Ascot Corner
90% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
One degree below 18°C for one day makes one heating degree day; the year’s days are added together. That means homes here need more heating than 61% of Canadian towns.
Living with Ascot Corner’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Warm afternoons without cold nights, 17–27°C and 8°C or more, mark Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Bitter wind chill, under −20, comes on about 50 days a year.
Expect around 37 sticky days a year with the humidex above 30.
Severe weather is a separate story from the averages: see Ascot Corner’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Sherbrooke
ECCC builds the Sherbrooke normals from 3 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 7.9 km east |
| Station altitude | 241 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Lennoxville, 9.5 km |
| Snowfall from | Richmond, 33 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −41.2°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 34.0°C |
| Average wind | 10.1 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Lennoxville, 9.5 km |
How Ascot Corner 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 Ascot Corner’s own would show the same figures).
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ascot Corner Sherbrooke | 25.3°C | −16.5°C | 1,015 mm |
| Stoke 4.0 km · Sherbrooke | 25.3°C about the same | −16.5°C about the same | 1,015 mm |
| Sherbrooke 12 km · Lennoxville | 25.7°C about the same | −14.9°C 1.6°C milder | 1,015 mm |
Ascot Corner weather by month
Month by month, 1991–2020: the usual high, low and mean, the rain and snow, and the snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −5.0°C | −16.5°C | −10.8°C | 76 mm | 59 cm |
| February | −3.2°C | −15.5°C | −9.4°C | 66 mm | 58 cm |
| March | 2.3°C | −9.4°C | −3.6°C | 68 mm | 53 cm |
| April | 10.4°C | −1.7°C | 4.4°C | 82 mm | 14 cm |
| May | 18.6°C | 4.7°C | 11.6°C | 85 mm | 1 cm |
| June | 22.7°C | 9.6°C | 16.1°C | 102 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.3°C | 12.3°C | 18.8°C | 99 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.3°C | 11.3°C | 17.9°C | 104 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.2°C | 6.8°C | 13.6°C | 96 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 12.6°C | 1.3°C | 6.9°C | 91 mm | 1 cm |
| November | 5.8°C | −3.7°C | 1.1°C | 70 mm | 17 cm |
| December | −1.4°C | −10.8°C | −6.1°C | 75 mm | 65 cm |
| Year | 11.1°C | −1.0°C | 5.1°C | 1,015 mm | 269 cm |
From −35.3°C to 25.3°C: March’s coldest and warmest days since 1991
Year to year, January varies most (a standard deviation of 3.3°C around −10.8°C) and August least (1.0°C).
Where Ascot Corner’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals for Sherbrooke, 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: the 2,500-plus towns and neighbourhoods of Canada, each read from its closest normals location; whole cities and reserves aren’t counted.
- Not on this page: hours of sunshine, missing from the 1991–2020 normals, and a height correction: the town has no elevation on file.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Ascot Corner’s climate
How warm does Ascot Corner get in summer?
Peak warmth comes in July, at about 25.3°C by mid-afternoon.
How cold does Ascot Corner get in winter?
The year’s coldest nights belong to January, at about −16.5°C.
How much rain and snow does Ascot Corner get?
Measured as water, a year brings 1,015 mm: 104 mm in August, the wettest month, and 66 mm in February, the driest.
Are these figures for Ascot Corner itself?
No, they come from Sherbrooke; ECCC keeps no 1991–2020 normals in Ascot Corner itself.
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