Frost comes to Dégelis more often than to 90% of Canadian towns
On a normal July day the thermometer tops out near 25.0°C. By precipitation alone, it ranks wetter than 68% of Canadian towns. Expect the most rain and snow in July and the least in February. Plan for rain or snow on about 122 days a year, the days with 1 mm or more.
No ECCC station in Dégelis has 1991–2020 normals; the page reads Edmundston, 28 km south-east, instead.
A year in Dégelis at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Dégelis’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Dégelis feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
198 frost days and 98 days above 20°C a year
The frost season runs September to June, and January freezes nearly every night. On about 40 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
1,012 mm of precipitation in a typical year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
329 cm of snow in a typical year
Snow falls from October to May, most of all in February (about 70 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
ECCC’s Edmundston normals leave snowfall out; the figures here come from St. Leonard, 74 km away.
Heating a home in Dégelis
88% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
The total grows by a degree for every degree a day’s mean sits under 18°C. Homes here need more heating than 82% of Canadian towns.
Living with Dégelis’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Mild days and mild nights together (17–27°C by day, 8°C or more at night) belong to Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →For blizzards, floods and wildfire, turn to Dégelis’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Edmundston
ECCC builds the Edmundston normals from 2 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 28 km south-east |
| Station altitude | 154 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | St. Leonard, 74 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −43.6°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 36.0°C |
| Next-nearest location | St. Leonard, 74 km |
How Dégelis 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 Dégelis whose figures come from another normals location. Dégelis has no close neighbour with figures; the nearest is 30 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dégelis Edmundston | 25.0°C | −19.1°C | 1,012 mm |
| Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! 30 km · Rivière-du-Loup/St-Antonin | 22.5°C 2.5°C cooler | −15.5°C 3.6°C milder | 1,012 mm |
Dégelis weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −6.9°C | −19.1°C | −13.0°C | 71 mm | 70 cm |
| February | −4.8°C | −18.7°C | −11.8°C | 63 mm | 70 cm |
| March | 1.2°C | −11.9°C | −5.5°C | 64 mm | 64 cm |
| April | 8.5°C | −3.6°C | 2.4°C | 67 mm | 26 cm |
| May | 17.2°C | 2.9°C | 10.1°C | 85 mm | 2 cm |
| June | 22.1°C | 7.8°C | 15.0°C | 101 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.0°C | 11.0°C | 18.1°C | 107 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.1°C | 9.8°C | 17.0°C | 86 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 19.2°C | 5.3°C | 12.3°C | 89 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 11.5°C | 0.2°C | 5.8°C | 103 mm | 7 cm |
| November | 4.0°C | −4.9°C | −0.5°C | 87 mm | 25 cm |
| December | −2.8°C | −12.5°C | −7.7°C | 89 mm | 66 cm |
| Year | 9.9°C | −2.8°C | 3.5°C | 1,012 mm | 329 cm |
From year to year, January moves by 2.7°C, more than any month, and July least
Over 1991–2020, March saw both −36.2°C (2008) and 25.0°C (2012), the widest span of any month.
Where Dégelis’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals, Edmundston, 1991–2020.
- Other locations: a location missing months of precipitation or snow is filled from the nearest that has them all, never mixed month by month.
- 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: a sunshine figure (ECCC published none for 1991–2020) and any lapse-rate correction for height, as the town has no elevation here.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Dégelis’s climate
How warm does Dégelis get in summer?
In July, the warmest month, the typical high is 25.0°C.
How cold does Dégelis get in winter?
Lows sink to −19.1°C on an average January night.
How much rain and snow does Dégelis get?
The year adds up to 1,012 mm. July is the peak month (107 mm) and February the low one (63 mm).
Are these figures for Dégelis itself?
No: Dégelis has no normals location, so the figures come from Edmundston, the nearest with 1991–2020 normals.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Dégelis →
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).