Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Few Canadian towns have cooler summers than Chute-aux-Outardes
Midwinter brings lows of about −18.8°C. By frosts alone, it ranks colder than 88% of Canadian towns. Seasons differ by 40°C, from the coldest nights to the warmest afternoons. An umbrella or a shovel earns its place on about 124 days a year with 1 mm or more.
ECCC publishes no normals for Chute-aux-Outardes itself; the figures are those of Baie-Comeau, 14 km east.
A year in Chute-aux-Outardes at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Chute-aux-Outardes’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Chute-aux-Outardes feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
About 194 frosts and 53 warm days a year
From September to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 38 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
About 966 mm of rain and snow a year
July brings the most rain and snow; February, the least.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
About 323 cm of snow a year
The snow season runs October to May; January brings the most, about 72 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snowfall: Mont-Joli, 60 km away (Baie-Comeau records no complete year of it).
Heating a home in Chute-aux-Outardes
85% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
A heating degree day is one degree of shortfall below 18°C for one day, summed over the year. In heating terms, homes need more heating than 96% of Canadian towns.
Living with Chute-aux-Outardes’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Frost usually lets go around 29 May and returns near 21 September, about 114 days apart.
The comfortable months for a day outside, highs of 17–27°C and nights of 8°C or more: Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Plan for about 69 days a year with a wind chill below −20.
Muggy heat with a humidex over 30 arrives on about 4 days a year.
Storms, floods and heat waves sit outside these normals; Chute-aux-Outardes’s hazards page covers them.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Baie-Comeau
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for Baie-Comeau are 2 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 14 km east |
| Station altitude | 22 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Mont-Joli, 60 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −40.1°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 32.0°C |
| Average wind | 14.7 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Mont-Joli, 60 km |
How Chute-aux-Outardes 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
Places around Chute-aux-Outardes whose figures come from another normals location. Chute-aux-Outardes has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 62–66 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chute-aux-Outardes Baie-Comeau | 21.3°C | −18.8°C | 966 mm |
| Price 62 km · Mont-Joli | 22.9°C 1.6°C warmer | −15.4°C 3.4°C milder | 932 mm |
| Forestville 66 km · Rimouski | 23.5°C 2.2°C warmer | −14.6°C 4.2°C milder | 965 mm |
Chute-aux-Outardes weather by month
Average daily high and low, mean temperature, rain and snow (as water) and snowfall by month, 1991–2020.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −8.0°C | −18.8°C | −13.4°C | 65 mm | 72 cm |
| February | −6.7°C | −18.1°C | −12.4°C | 61 mm | 66 cm |
| March | −1.6°C | −11.7°C | −6.7°C | 64 mm | 60 cm |
| April | 4.6°C | −3.4°C | 0.6°C | 72 mm | 22 cm |
| May | 12.3°C | 2.0°C | 7.2°C | 76 mm | 2 cm |
| June | 18.3°C | 7.3°C | 12.8°C | 83 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 21.3°C | 10.7°C | 16.0°C | 111 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 20.7°C | 9.9°C | 15.3°C | 82 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 15.8°C | 5.4°C | 10.6°C | 93 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 9.0°C | 0.6°C | 4.8°C | 96 mm | 4 cm |
| November | 2.5°C | −4.9°C | −1.2°C | 87 mm | 31 cm |
| December | −4.0°C | −13.0°C | −8.6°C | 78 mm | 67 cm |
| Year | 7.0°C | −2.8°C | 2.1°C | 966 mm | 323 cm |
Two years in three, February’s average lands within 2.9°C of normal, against the steadier July
Bars run from each month’s record low to its record high since 1991. January spans the most, from −40.1°C (1991) to 11.4°C (1996).
Where Chute-aux-Outardes’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 normals from ECCC for Baie-Comeau, its nearest location with complete 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: Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of at least 2,500, each placed by its nearest location (city totals and reserves excluded).
- 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 Chute-aux-Outardes’s climate
How warm does Chute-aux-Outardes get in summer?
On a normal day in July the thermometer climbs to 21.3°C, the warmest of the year.
How cold does Chute-aux-Outardes get in winter?
In January, the coldest month, the typical low is −18.8°C.
How much rain and snow does Chute-aux-Outardes get?
Precipitation totals 966 mm a year, with July the wettest month (111 mm) and February the driest (61 mm).
Are these figures for Chute-aux-Outardes itself?
The figures are ECCC’s for Baie-Comeau; Chute-aux-Outardes has no normals station.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Chute-aux-Outardes →
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