Photo: Harfang · CC BY-SA 3.0Snowy winters: about 299 cm a year in Baie-Saint-Paul, more than in 93% of Canadian towns
Midwinter brings lows of about −15.3°C. The gap between a January night and a July afternoon is 40°C. In January, nights here are colder than in 72% of Canadian towns. Wet days, with 1 mm of rain or snow or more, come about 129 times a year.
Baie-Saint-Paul has no ECCC normals station of its own: every figure here comes from La Pocatière, 39 km east.
A year in Baie-Saint-Paul at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Baie-Saint-Paul’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Baie-Saint-Paul feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
About 170 frosts and 92 warm days a year
From October to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. Some 18 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
About 906 mm of rain and snow a year
The most falls in October, the least in February.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 299 cm in a normal year
Expect snow from October to April, with about 77 cm in December, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snowfall: Lauzon, 82 km away (La Pocatière records no complete year of it).
Heating a home in Baie-Saint-Paul
89% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
ECCC sums, over the year, how many degrees each day’s average falls short of 18°C. Over a year, a home here needs more heating than 63% of Canadian towns.
Living with Baie-Saint-Paul’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Mild days and mild nights together (17–27°C by day, 8°C or more at night) belong to Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →On some 52 days a year the wind chill drops past −20; mitts and a scarf earn their place.
The humidex tops 30 on about 31 days a year: muggy days to plan around.
A normal year has no blizzard, flood or heat wave in it; Baie-Saint-Paul’s hazards page looks at those.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: La Pocatière
La Pocatière is a composite: ECCC joins 2 stations’ readings to make its 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 39 km east |
| Station altitude | 31 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Lauzon, 82 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −33.5°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.7°C |
| Average wind | 14.8 km/h on average, most often from the south-west |
| Next-nearest location | Cap-Tourmente, 45 km |
How Baie-Saint-Paul compares
Compared with 2,611 towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more across Canada; the dots mark the other normals locations in Quebec.
Nearby towns’ climate
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Baie-Saint-Paul’s would only repeat its figures. The nearest place to Baie-Saint-Paul with figures is 15 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baie-Saint-Paul La Pocatière | 24.2°C | −15.3°C | 906 mm |
| Petite-Rivière-Saint-François 15 km · Cap-Tourmente | 25.0°C 0.8°C warmer | −14.8°C 0.5°C milder | 906 mm |
Baie-Saint-Paul 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 | −6.5°C | −15.3°C | −10.9°C | 70 mm | 62 cm |
| February | −5.0°C | −14.3°C | −9.6°C | 61 mm | 71 cm |
| March | 0.1°C | −8.8°C | −4.4°C | 62 mm | 51 cm |
| April | 7.6°C | −1.5°C | 3.0°C | 69 mm | 12 cm |
| May | 16.2°C | 4.7°C | 10.4°C | 74 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 21.6°C | 10.0°C | 15.8°C | 85 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 24.2°C | 13.2°C | 18.7°C | 81 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 23.6°C | 12.4°C | 18.0°C | 82 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 18.9°C | 8.3°C | 13.6°C | 78 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 11.1°C | 2.7°C | 7.0°C | 99 mm | 2 cm |
| November | 4.3°C | −2.7°C | 0.8°C | 72 mm | 24 cm |
| December | −2.6°C | −10.1°C | −6.4°C | 74 mm | 77 cm |
| Year | 9.5°C | −0.1°C | 4.7°C | 906 mm | 299 cm |
January varies most from one year to the next (2.6°C), June least
Each bar spans a month’s coldest and warmest readings over thirty years; March’s run from −27.2°C in 2007 to 21.8°C in 2012.
Where Baie-Saint-Paul’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals for La Pocatière, the nearest location with a full year of 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: 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-Saint-Paul’s climate
How warm does Baie-Saint-Paul get in summer?
July is the warmest month, with average highs of 24.2°C.
How cold does Baie-Saint-Paul get in winter?
The year’s coldest nights belong to January, at about −15.3°C.
How much rain and snow does Baie-Saint-Paul get?
Precipitation totals 906 mm a year, with October the wettest month (99 mm) and February the driest (61 mm).
Are these figures for Baie-Saint-Paul itself?
No. ECCC measures normals at La Pocatière, not in Baie-Saint-Paul; the page uses the nearest it has.
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