More snow falls on Bécancour than on 90% of Canadian towns: about 274 cm a year
January nights here settle around −14.1°C. Winter and summer sit 39°C apart. Its yearly rain and snow top those of 80% of Canadian towns. The outdoor season runs from June to September, with highs of 20–25°C.
These are not Bécancour’s own readings: ECCC keeps no normals there, so the page uses Trois-Rivières, 7.6 km north-west.
A year in Bécancour at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Bécancour’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Bécancour feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
Frost on 145 days, 20°C on 104
Frost comes from October to April; in January almost every night freezes. Some 15 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
1,101 mm of precipitation in a typical year
The most falls in July, the least in February. Some 132 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
274 cm of snow in a typical year
Snow falls from October to April, most of all in December (about 69 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Bécancour
93% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Measured against 18°C: each day’s shortfall in mean temperature, added over twelve months.
Living with Bécancour’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Afternoons of 17–27°C and nights of at least 8°C arrive in Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Frostbite weather, a wind chill under −20, turns up on about 42 days a year.
About 37 days a year feel above 30 on the humidex.
Averages smooth over blizzards, ice storms, floods and heat waves; Bécancour’s hazards page covers the risks.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Trois-Rivières
Trois-Rivières is a composite: ECCC joins 2 stations’ readings to make its 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 7.6 km north-west |
| Station altitude | 6 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −32.3°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 34.0°C |
| Average wind | 13.4 km/h on average, most often from the south-west |
| Next-nearest location | Nicolet, 18 km |
How Bécancour 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 Bécancour’s would only repeat its figures.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bécancour Trois-Rivières | 25.1°C | −14.1°C | 1,101 mm |
| Trois-Rivières 12 km · Trois-Rivières | 25.1°C about the same | −14.1°C about the same | 1,101 mm |
| Nicolet 14 km · Nicolet | 25.7°C 0.6°C warmer | −16.4°C 2.3°C colder | 948 mm |
Bécancour weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −5.6°C | −14.1°C | −9.9°C | 83 mm | 61 cm |
| February | −3.9°C | −13.1°C | −8.5°C | 66 mm | 53 cm |
| March | 1.2°C | −7.3°C | −3.1°C | 76 mm | 50 cm |
| April | 8.8°C | 0.3°C | 4.6°C | 87 mm | 14 cm |
| May | 17.3°C | 7.9°C | 12.6°C | 83 mm | under 1 cm |
| June | 22.5°C | 13.6°C | 18.1°C | 105 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.1°C | 16.7°C | 20.9°C | 125 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.1°C | 15.6°C | 19.9°C | 96 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 19.8°C | 11.0°C | 15.5°C | 97 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 12.2°C | 5.1°C | 8.5°C | 101 mm | 4 cm |
| November | 4.9°C | −1.3°C | 1.8°C | 88 mm | 24 cm |
| December | −2.0°C | −8.6°C | −5.3°C | 95 mm | 69 cm |
| Year | 10.4°C | 2.1°C | 6.2°C | 1,101 mm | 274 cm |
From −32.3°C to 12.0°C: January’s coldest and warmest days since 1991
The month to count on least is January: one year in three its average strays more than 2.8°C from −9.9°C. June moves least, typically by 1.0°C.
Where Bécancour’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the Canadian Climate Normals, 1991–2020, at Trois-Rivières (the closest location with all twelve months of temperatures).
- Comparisons: every place of 2,500+ in Canada but the city hubs and the reserves, each on its nearest ECCC location.
- 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 Bécancour’s climate
How warm does Bécancour get in summer?
At its warmest, in July, the normal high is 25.1°C.
How cold does Bécancour get in winter?
A typical January night falls to −14.1°C, the year’s low point.
How much rain and snow does Bécancour get?
Measured as water, a year brings 1,101 mm: 125 mm in July, the wettest month, and 66 mm in February, the driest.
Are these figures for Bécancour itself?
Not as such: Trois-Rivières is the nearest normals location, and Bécancour has none.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Bécancour →
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).