Photo: Hayden Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Caplan has cooler summers than 94% of Canadian towns
The coldest hours of a January night bottom out at −14.2°C on average. It is a wet place: more rain and snow fall here than on 80% of Canadian towns. Of all months, October brings the most precipitation and February the least. About 133 days a year bring 1 mm of precipitation or more.
Caplan has no ECCC normals station of its own: every figure here comes from New Carlisle, 31 km east.
A year in Caplan at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Caplan’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Caplan feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
About 175 frosts and 70 warm days a year
The frost season runs October to May, and January freezes nearly every night. Some 12 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 1,095 mm a year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
337 cm of snow in a typical year
Snow falls from October to May, most of all in January (about 71 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snowfall: Bathurst, 54 km away (New Carlisle records no complete year of it).
Heating a home in Caplan
87% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
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 72% of Canadian towns.
Living with Caplan’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Warm afternoons without cold nights, 17–27°C and 8°C or more, mark Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Roughly 45 days a year feel colder than −20 in the wind.
The humidex tops 30 on about 16 days a year: muggy days to plan around.
Storms, floods and heat waves sit outside these normals; Caplan’s hazards page covers them.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: New Carlisle
ECCC builds the New Carlisle normals from 2 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 31 km east |
| Station altitude | 45 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Bathurst, 54 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −31.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 34.1°C |
| Average wind | 12.4 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Charlo, 51 km |
How Caplan 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 Caplan’s own would show the same figures). Distances here run 15–37 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Caplan.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caplan New Carlisle | 22.7°C | −14.2°C | 1,095 mm |
| New Richmond 15 km · Charlo | 23.8°C 1.1°C warmer | −16.2°C 2.0°C colder | 1,011 mm |
| Petit-Rocher 37 km · Bathurst | 25.1°C 2.4°C warmer | −16.0°C 1.8°C colder | 1,118 mm |
Caplan 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 | −5.8°C | −14.2°C | −10.1°C | 83 mm | 71 cm |
| February | −4.9°C | −13.8°C | −9.4°C | 71 mm | 69 cm |
| March | 0.1°C | −8.7°C | −4.3°C | 92 mm | 68 cm |
| April | 6.1°C | −2.2°C | 2.0°C | 73 mm | 30 cm |
| May | 13.3°C | 3.3°C | 8.3°C | 90 mm | 2 cm |
| June | 19.1°C | 8.7°C | 13.9°C | 94 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 22.7°C | 12.8°C | 17.8°C | 96 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 22.2°C | 12.4°C | 17.3°C | 83 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 17.8°C | 8.0°C | 12.9°C | 90 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 10.8°C | 2.9°C | 6.9°C | 117 mm | 6 cm |
| November | 4.2°C | −2.4°C | 0.9°C | 101 mm | 22 cm |
| December | −1.9°C | −8.9°C | −5.4°C | 106 mm | 68 cm |
| Year | 8.6°C | −0.2°C | 4.2°C | 1,095 mm | 337 cm |
In March, anything from −25.0°C to 18.0°C
February is the least predictable month: about two years in three its average lands within 2.5°C of the normal, −9.4°C. August is the steadiest, within 0.9°C.
Where Caplan’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals, New Carlisle: the nearest of its locations with every month’s temperatures.
- 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: a pool of Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, read alike; whole cities and reserves stay out of it.
- 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 Caplan’s climate
How warm does Caplan get in summer?
Of all twelve months, July has the warmest afternoons, about 22.7°C.
How cold does Caplan get in winter?
Deep winter means January, when nights average −14.2°C.
How much rain and snow does Caplan get?
About 1,095 mm a year, rain and melted snow together. October is the wettest month (117 mm) and February the driest (71 mm).
Are these figures for Caplan itself?
They describe New Carlisle, the nearest normals location, rather than Caplan itself.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Caplan →
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).