Photo: Ptaff · CC0Frost comes to Brébeuf more often than to 89% of Canadian towns
July afternoons average 25.3°C. Counting rain and snow together, it is wetter than 88% of Canadian towns. Rain or snow is most frequent in October and least in February. An umbrella or a shovel earns its place on about 143 days a year with 1 mm or more.
Brébeuf has no ECCC normals station of its own: every figure here comes from St-Jovite, 9.8 km east.
A year in Brébeuf at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Brébeuf’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Brébeuf feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
About 196 frosts and 111 warm days a year
The frost season runs September to May, and January freezes nearly every night. Some 41 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
Rain and melted snow: about 1,178 mm a year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Precipitation and snowfall: Lachute, 56 km away (St-Jovite records no complete year of either).
Snowfall: about 218 cm in a normal year
The snow season runs October to April; January brings the most, about 56 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Heating a home in Brébeuf
89% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Degree days add up how far each day’s mean temperature falls below 18°C over a year. That means homes here need more heating than 80% of Canadian towns.
Living with Brébeuf’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Gardens get from about 28 May to 15 September without frost, around 110 days in all.
Mild days and mild nights together (17–27°C by day, 8°C or more at night) belong to Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Bitter wind chill, under −20, comes on about 34 days a year.
Roughly 35 days a year feel hotter than 30 once humidity is counted.
Severe weather is a separate story from the averages: see Brébeuf’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: St-Jovite
The page’s figures are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for St-Jovite, one of its 450 normals locations.
| Distance from the town | 9.8 km east |
| Station altitude | 234 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Lachute, 56 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −41.4°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.7°C |
| Average wind | 4.1 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Lachute, 56 km |
How Brébeuf 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
Places around Brébeuf whose figures come from another normals location. Distances here run 33–46 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Brébeuf.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brébeuf St-Jovite | 25.3°C | −18.3°C | 1,178 mm |
| Wentworth-Nord 33 km · Lachute | 26.5°C 1.2°C warmer | −14.7°C 3.6°C milder | 1,178 mm |
| Montpellier 46 km · Angers | 26.2°C 0.9°C warmer | −16.5°C 1.8°C milder | 938 mm |
Brébeuf weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −5.5°C | −18.3°C | −11.9°C | 97 mm | 56 cm |
| February | −3.3°C | −17.9°C | −10.6°C | 72 mm | 47 cm |
| March | 2.6°C | −11.3°C | −4.4°C | 74 mm | 34 cm |
| April | 10.3°C | −3.2°C | 3.5°C | 100 mm | 8 cm |
| May | 18.5°C | 3.3°C | 11.0°C | 89 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 23.0°C | 8.5°C | 15.7°C | 111 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.3°C | 10.9°C | 18.2°C | 112 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.5°C | 9.8°C | 17.2°C | 104 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.1°C | 5.6°C | 12.9°C | 114 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 12.3°C | 0.5°C | 6.4°C | 120 mm | 2 cm |
| November | 4.6°C | −5.1°C | −0.2°C | 93 mm | 17 cm |
| December | −2.5°C | −12.9°C | −7.7°C | 94 mm | 53 cm |
| Year | 10.8°C | −2.5°C | 4.2°C | 1,178 mm | 218 cm |
The month with the widest range: March, −38.3°C to 27.1°C
January is the least predictable month: about two years in three its average lands within 3.2°C of the normal, −11.9°C. August is the steadiest, within 1.0°C.
Where Brébeuf’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: 1991–2020 normals for St-Jovite from ECCC’s climate data site, the nearest location with every month of temperature.
- 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: Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of at least 2,500, each placed by its nearest location (city totals and reserves excluded).
- 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 Brébeuf’s climate
How warm does Brébeuf get in summer?
Peak warmth comes in July, at about 25.3°C by mid-afternoon.
How cold does Brébeuf get in winter?
Overnight lows average −18.3°C in January, the coldest month.
How much rain and snow does Brébeuf get?
Precipitation totals 1,178 mm a year, with October the wettest month (120 mm) and February the driest (72 mm).
Are these figures for Brébeuf itself?
Not as such: St-Jovite is the nearest normals location, and Brébeuf has none.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Brébeuf →
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).