Photo: Robert Garry · CC BY-SA 4.0Chibougamau has some of the coldest winter nights among Canadian towns
Midsummer highs settle at about 22.9°C. Rain or snow is most frequent in July and least in February. By July afternoons alone, it runs cooler than 92% of Canadian towns. Windshields need scraping on about 215 mornings a year, the days the air reaches 0°C or below.
The nearest ECCC normals location to Chibougamau is Chapais, 46 km west, and every figure on this page is its.
A year in Chibougamau at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Chibougamau’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Chibougamau feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
215 frost days and 72 days above 20°C a year
The frost season runs September to June, and January freezes nearly every night. On about 65 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
911 mm of precipitation in a typical year
On about 124 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Chapais publishes no full year of precipitation, so these figures come from Roberval, 217 km away.
Heating a home in Chibougamau
87% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
A day averaging 10 degrees under 18°C adds 10 to the total; warm days add nothing. In heating terms, homes need more heating than almost every Canadian town.
Living with Chibougamau’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Plan time outside for Jul and Aug: highs of 17–27°C and nights no colder than 8°C.
Parks & trails →Plan for about 85 days a year with a wind chill below −20.
Count on some 14 humid days a year with the humidex past 30.
Storms, floods and heat waves sit outside these normals; Chibougamau’s hazards page covers them.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Chapais
Chapais is a composite: ECCC joins 2 stations’ readings to make its 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 46 km west |
| Station altitude | 381 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Roberval, 217 km |
| Snowfall from | No location within 100 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −43.2°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.0°C |
| Average wind | 6.3 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Normandin, 177 km |
How Chibougamau 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
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Chibougamau’s would only repeat its figures. No closer place has figures: this one lies 145 km from Chibougamau.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chibougamau Chapais | 22.9°C | −24.1°C | 911 mm |
| Obedjiwan 28 145 km · Parent | 23.1°C about the same | −23.1°C 1.0°C milder | 1,080 mm |
Chibougamau weather by month
Average daily high and low, mean temperature and precipitation by month, 1991–2020.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −12.7°C | −24.1°C | −18.5°C | 55 mm |
| February | −10.2°C | −23.0°C | −16.6°C | 45 mm |
| March | −3.0°C | −16.7°C | −9.9°C | 57 mm |
| April | 5.1°C | −7.0°C | −1.0°C | 64 mm |
| May | 14.7°C | 1.4°C | 8.1°C | 71 mm |
| June | 21.2°C | 7.5°C | 14.4°C | 87 mm |
| July | 22.9°C | 10.2°C | 16.6°C | 112 mm |
| August | 21.0°C | 9.2°C | 15.1°C | 104 mm |
| September | 15.9°C | 4.8°C | 10.4°C | 99 mm |
| October | 7.3°C | −0.5°C | 3.4°C | 81 mm |
| November | −1.1°C | −8.0°C | −4.5°C | 71 mm |
| December | −8.4°C | −17.6°C | −13.0°C | 66 mm |
| Year | 6.1°C | −5.3°C | 0.4°C | 911 mm |
March: −40.9°C at its coldest, 22.5°C at its warmest
The month to count on least is January: one year in three its average strays more than 3.6°C from −18.5°C. July moves least, typically by 1.2°C.
Where Chibougamau’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals at Chapais, the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals.
- Other locations: precipitation and snowfall come from the nearest location that publishes all twelve months of them, as named above.
- 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: snowfall (no location within 100 km publishes a full year of it), sunshine (none for 1991–2020) and an altitude correction.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Chibougamau’s climate
How warm does Chibougamau get in summer?
A normal July afternoon tops out at about 22.9°C, the year’s high point.
How cold does Chibougamau get in winter?
At its coldest, in January, the normal low is −24.1°C.
How much rain and snow does Chibougamau get?
Around 911 mm a year in all, from 112 mm in July down to 45 mm in February.
Are these figures for Chibougamau itself?
They describe Chapais, the nearest normals location, rather than Chibougamau itself.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Chibougamau →
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).