Photo: Mario Hains · CC BY-SA 3.0Snowfall in Bury tops that of 92% of Canadian towns: about 291 cm a year
January mornings start at about −16.5°C. Some 42°C separates winter nights from summer afternoons. None of its 4 nearest neighbours has colder January nights. Ice scrapers and block heaters earn their keep on roughly 181 days a year at 0°C or below.
Borrowed figures: Bury has no normals station, so these come from Sherbrooke, 19 km west.
A year in Bury at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Bury’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Bury feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
About 181 frosts and 111 warm days a year
From September to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. Some 30 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 1,015 mm a year
August brings the most rain and snow; February, the least. Some 147 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Sherbrooke publishes no full year of precipitation, so these figures come from Lennoxville, 32 km away.
291 cm of snow in a typical year
Expect snow from October to May, with about 71 cm in December, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
ECCC’s Sherbrooke normals leave snowfall out; the figures here come from Coaticook, 47 km away.
Heating a home in Bury
90% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Each day the mean sits under 18°C adds its shortfall; a year’s total is its heating degree days. Over a year, a home here needs more heating than 61% of Canadian towns.
Living with Bury’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
The outdoor season by the averages is Jun, Jul and Aug, with highs of 17–27°C and lows of 8°C or more.
Parks & trails →Frostbite weather, a wind chill under −20, turns up on about 50 days a year.
On some 37 days a year the humidex climbs past 30.
A normal year has no blizzard, flood or heat wave in it; Bury’s hazards page looks at those.
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 | 19 km west |
| Station altitude | 241 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Lennoxville, 32 km |
| Snowfall from | Coaticook, 47 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, 32 km |
How Bury 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
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Bury’s own would show the same figures). The nearest places to Bury with figures are 34–40 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bury Sherbrooke | 25.3°C | −16.5°C | 1,015 mm |
| Notre-Dame-des-Bois 34 km · St Ludger | 24.5°C 0.8°C cooler | −15.9°C 0.6°C milder | 1,130 mm |
| Stratford 36 km · Thetford Mines | 23.5°C 1.8°C cooler | −16.1°C about the same | 1,324 mm |
| Sherbrooke 38 km · Lennoxville | 25.7°C about the same | −14.9°C 1.6°C milder | 1,015 mm |
| Saint-Claude 38 km · Richmond | 25.6°C about the same | −15.0°C 1.5°C milder | 1,015 mm |
Bury 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 | 61 cm |
| March | 2.3°C | −9.4°C | −3.6°C | 68 mm | 52 cm |
| April | 10.4°C | −1.7°C | 4.4°C | 82 mm | 15 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 | 5 cm |
| November | 5.8°C | −3.7°C | 1.1°C | 70 mm | 26 cm |
| December | −1.4°C | −10.8°C | −6.1°C | 75 mm | 71 cm |
| Year | 11.1°C | −1.0°C | 5.1°C | 1,015 mm | 291 cm |
In March, anything from −35.3°C to 25.3°C
Bars run from each month’s record low to its record high over 1991–2020; January is the month whose average wanders most from year to year (±3.3°C around −10.8°C), August the one that wanders least (±1.0°C).
Where Bury’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals at Sherbrooke, the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals.
- Other locations: where a location publishes no full year of precipitation or snowfall, the nearest one that does supplies it, named beside those figures.
- Comparisons: Canada’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ (no city totals, no reserves), each through its own nearest location.
- Not on this page: sunshine, not in ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals, and the effect of the town’s height, for which there is no figure.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Bury’s climate
How warm does Bury get in summer?
Peak warmth comes in July, at about 25.3°C by mid-afternoon.
How cold does Bury get in winter?
Midwinter means January, when a typical night reaches −16.5°C.
How much rain and snow does Bury get?
Over twelve months, rain and melted snow come to 1,015 mm; the range runs from 66 mm in February to 104 mm in August.
Are these figures for Bury itself?
They are borrowed from Sherbrooke, the nearest place to Bury where ECCC publishes 1991–2020 normals.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Bury →
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).