Photo: Mathieu Lab · CC BY 3.0Ice on the ground: Chute-Saint-Philippe sees more frosts than 89% of Canadian towns
July afternoons average 25.3°C. The seasons are far apart: from a winter night to a summer afternoon the average spans 44°C. Rain and snow together come to more here than on 63% of Canadian towns. Plan time outside from June to August, when highs sit at 23–25°C.
Far-off figures: ECCC’s closest normals for Chute-Saint-Philippe come from St-Jovite, 81 km south-east, so take them as the area’s climate.
A year in Chute-Saint-Philippe at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Chute-Saint-Philippe’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Chute-Saint-Philippe feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
196 frost days and 111 days above 20°C 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
939 mm of precipitation in a typical year
October brings the most rain and snow; February, the least. Some 141 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Precipitation: Maniwaki, 90 km away (St-Jovite records no complete year of it).
Heating a home in Chute-Saint-Philippe
89% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Every day colder than 18°C on average adds its gap in degrees to the year’s heating total. By this count, homes here need more heating than 80% of Canadian towns.
Living with Chute-Saint-Philippe’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
From about 28 May to 15 September the garden is usually clear of frost, some 110 days.
Highs of 17–27°C with nights of 8°C or more come in Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Expect around 34 days a year when the wind chill sinks below −20.
Humid summer days, the humidex above 30, number about 35 a year.
A typical year is calm by definition; Chute-Saint-Philippe’s hazards page covers the exceptions.
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 | 81 km south-east |
| Station altitude | 234 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Maniwaki, 90 km |
| Snowfall from | No location within 100 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 | Maniwaki, 90 km |
How Chute-Saint-Philippe 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
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Chute-Saint-Philippe’s own would show the same figures). The one place listed is 19 km from Chute-Saint-Philippe, the nearest with figures.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chute-Saint-Philippe St-Jovite | 25.3°C | −18.3°C | 939 mm |
| Lac-des-Écorces 19 km · Maniwaki | 25.6°C about the same | −17.4°C 0.9°C milder | 939 mm |
Chute-Saint-Philippe weather by month
Average daily high and low, mean temperature and precipitation by month, 1991–2020.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −5.5°C | −18.3°C | −11.9°C | 76 mm |
| February | −3.3°C | −17.9°C | −10.6°C | 56 mm |
| March | 2.6°C | −11.3°C | −4.4°C | 71 mm |
| April | 10.3°C | −3.2°C | 3.5°C | 72 mm |
| May | 18.5°C | 3.3°C | 11.0°C | 73 mm |
| June | 23.0°C | 8.5°C | 15.7°C | 80 mm |
| July | 25.3°C | 10.9°C | 18.2°C | 87 mm |
| August | 24.5°C | 9.8°C | 17.2°C | 95 mm |
| September | 20.1°C | 5.6°C | 12.9°C | 87 mm |
| October | 12.3°C | 0.5°C | 6.4°C | 96 mm |
| November | 4.6°C | −5.1°C | −0.2°C | 72 mm |
| December | −2.5°C | −12.9°C | −7.7°C | 76 mm |
| Year | 10.8°C | −2.5°C | 4.2°C | 939 mm |
The month with the widest range: March, −38.3°C to 27.1°C
Two years in three, January’s average falls within 3.2°C of its normal of −11.9°C; August keeps to within 1.0°C.
Where Chute-Saint-Philippe’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals, St-Jovite: the nearest of its locations with every month’s temperatures.
- Other locations: precipitation and snowfall come from the nearest location that publishes all twelve months of them, as named above.
- Comparisons: every Canadian town and neighbourhood of 2,500 or more, each read from its own nearest location; city totals and reserves are left out.
- Not on this page: snow, with no complete snowfall normals within 100 km, sunshine, which ECCC published for no location, and any height adjustment.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Chute-Saint-Philippe’s climate
How warm does Chute-Saint-Philippe get in summer?
Afternoons average 25.3°C in July, the warmest time of year.
How cold does Chute-Saint-Philippe get in winter?
Deep winter means January, when nights average −18.3°C.
How much rain and snow does Chute-Saint-Philippe get?
A normal year brings 939 mm, snow included as water: October is wettest at 96 mm, February driest at 56 mm.
Are these figures for Chute-Saint-Philippe itself?
Not really: St-Jovite, the closest location with normals, lies well away from Chute-Saint-Philippe.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Chute-Saint-Philippe →
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).