Snowy winters: about 291 cm a year in Cookshire-Eaton, more than in 92% of Canadian towns
January nights here settle around −16.5°C. A year here swings 42°C from midwinter lows to midsummer highs. Winter nights are cold: in January they are colder than in 78% of Canadian towns. The heating season runs October to April: each of those months averages under 10°C.
Measured at Sherbrooke, 5.5 km north: ECCC’s normals for 1991–2020.
A year in Cookshire-Eaton at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Cookshire-Eaton’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Cookshire-Eaton feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
About 181 frosts and 111 warm days a year
The frost season runs September to May, and January freezes nearly every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 30 nights a year.
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, 12 km away.
Snowfall: about 291 cm in a normal year
Expect snow from October to May, with about 71 cm in December, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snowfall: Coaticook, 29 km away (Sherbrooke records no complete year of it).
Heating a home in Cookshire-Eaton
90% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
ECCC sums, over the year, how many degrees each day’s average falls short of 18°C. That means homes here need more heating than 61% of Canadian towns.
Living with Cookshire-Eaton’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Afternoons of 17–27°C and nights of at least 8°C arrive in Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Winter brings about 50 days with a wind chill below −20.
Roughly 37 days a year feel hotter than 30 once humidity is counted.
The normals describe a typical year, not its worst days; the hazards page covers Cookshire-Eaton’s.
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 | 5.5 km north |
| Station altitude | 241 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Lennoxville, 12 km |
| Snowfall from | Coaticook, 29 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, 12 km |
How Cookshire-Eaton compares
Placed among 2,611 Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+, each on its nearest normals location; each dot is another location used in Quebec.
Nearby towns’ climate
Places around Cookshire-Eaton whose figures come from another normals location. The nearest places to Cookshire-Eaton with figures are 20–21 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cookshire-Eaton Sherbrooke | 25.3°C | −16.5°C | 1,015 mm |
| Sherbrooke 20 km · Lennoxville | 25.7°C about the same | −14.9°C 1.6°C milder | 1,015 mm |
| Compton 21 km · Coaticook | 24.7°C 0.6°C cooler | −13.9°C 2.6°C milder | 1,217 mm |
Cookshire-Eaton weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and 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 |
January varies most from one year to the next (3.3°C), August least
Each bar spans a month’s coldest and warmest readings over thirty years; March’s run from −35.3°C in 2007 to 25.3°C in 2012.
Where Cookshire-Eaton’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals for Sherbrooke, the nearest location with a full year of temperatures.
- Other locations: ECCC blanks a month that fails its completeness rule, so the precipitation or snowfall here comes from the next location with all twelve months.
- Comparisons: the 2,500-plus towns and neighbourhoods of Canada, each read from its closest normals location; whole cities and reserves aren’t counted.
- Not on this page: sunshine, absent from every 1991–2020 location, and an altitude correction, for want of the town’s own elevation.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Cookshire-Eaton’s climate
How warm does Cookshire-Eaton get in summer?
Summer peaks in July: a typical afternoon reaches 25.3°C.
How cold does Cookshire-Eaton get in winter?
A typical January night falls to −16.5°C, the year’s low point.
How much rain and snow does Cookshire-Eaton get?
Rain and snow, with snow counted as water, total 1,015 mm a year; August leads with 104 mm and February trails with 66 mm.
Are these figures for Cookshire-Eaton itself?
Yes. Sherbrooke, where ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals were measured, lies within Cookshire-Eaton.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Cookshire-Eaton →
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