Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Beaupré is wetter than 90% of Canadian towns: 1,216 mm of rain and snow a year
January nights here settle around −14.8°C. July is the wettest month, March the driest. Winter nights are cold: in January they are colder than in 71% of Canadian towns. Windshields need scraping on about 165 mornings a year, the days the air reaches 0°C or below.
No ECCC station in Beaupré has 1991–2020 normals; the page reads Cap-Tourmente, 10 km east, instead.
A year in Beaupré at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Beaupré’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Beaupré feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
165 frost days and 99 days above 20°C a year
From October to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. On about 20 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
About 1,216 mm of rain and snow a year
About 142 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Cap-Tourmente publishes no full year of precipitation or snowfall, so these figures, and the snow below, come from Lauzon, 29 km away.
Snowfall: about 299 cm in a normal year
The snow season runs October to April; December brings the most, about 77 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Heating a home in Beaupré
91% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
A heating degree day is one degree of shortfall below 18°C for one day, summed over the year.
Living with Beaupré’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
The growing season between frosts lasts about 151 days, roughly 8 May to 7 October.
For long days outdoors, Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep bring highs of 17–27°C and lows of 8°C or more.
Parks & trails →About 40 days a year bring a wind chill under −20, when bare skin chills fast.
About 35 days a year turn sultry, with the humidex past 30.
For the weather that does damage, from ice storms to floods, see Beaupré’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Cap-Tourmente
Cap-Tourmente is one of the 450 places where ECCC publishes 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 10 km east |
| Station altitude | 6 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Lauzon, 29 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −33.5°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.1°C |
| Average wind | 9.3 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Saint Michel, 20 km |
How Beaupré 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 Quebec.
Nearby towns’ climate
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Beaupré’s own would show the same figures).
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaupré Cap-Tourmente | 25.0°C | −14.8°C | 1,216 mm |
| Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré 3.4 km · Cap-Tourmente | 25.0°C about the same | −14.8°C about the same | 1,216 mm |
| Château-Richer 13 km · Saint Michel | 25.1°C about the same | −16.0°C 1.2°C colder | 1,216 mm |
Beaupré weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −5.4°C | −14.8°C | −10.1°C | 80 mm | 62 cm |
| February | −3.7°C | −13.9°C | −8.8°C | 80 mm | 71 cm |
| March | 1.3°C | −8.1°C | −3.4°C | 78 mm | 51 cm |
| April | 8.8°C | −0.9°C | 4.0°C | 95 mm | 12 cm |
| May | 16.9°C | 5.7°C | 11.3°C | 98 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 22.1°C | 10.9°C | 16.5°C | 120 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.0°C | 14.0°C | 19.5°C | 129 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.2°C | 13.3°C | 18.8°C | 117 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 19.5°C | 9.2°C | 14.4°C | 123 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 12.2°C | 3.1°C | 7.7°C | 112 mm | 2 cm |
| November | 4.9°C | −2.6°C | 1.2°C | 84 mm | 24 cm |
| December | −2.0°C | −10.2°C | −6.1°C | 101 mm | 77 cm |
| Year | 10.3°C | 0.5°C | 5.4°C | 1,216 mm | 299 cm |
March has run from −29.0°C to 20.2°C in thirty years
The month to count on least is January: one year in three its average strays more than 2.6°C from −10.1°C. July moves least, typically by 0.9°C.
Where Beaupré’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 normals from ECCC for Cap-Tourmente, its nearest location with complete temperatures.
- Other locations: ECCC blanks a month that fails its completeness rule, so the precipitation or snowfall here comes from the next location with all twelve months.
- Comparisons: every Canadian town and neighbourhood of 2,500 or more, each read from its own nearest location; city totals and reserves are left out.
- Not on this page: sunshine, which none of ECCC’s 450 locations publishes for 1991–2020, and the town’s own height above sea level, so no figure is adjusted for altitude.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Beaupré’s climate
How warm does Beaupré get in summer?
Afternoons average 25.0°C in July, the warmest time of year.
How cold does Beaupré get in winter?
January nights average −14.8°C, the coldest of the year.
How much rain and snow does Beaupré get?
Rain and snow add up to about 1,216 mm of water a year; July brings the most (129 mm), March the least (78 mm).
Are these figures for Beaupré itself?
They are the closest available: the normals for Cap-Tourmente, since Beaupré has none.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Beaupré →
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).