Photo: Franky-Doo-Dy · CC BY-SA 3.0Ice on the ground: La Minerve sees more frosts than 89% of Canadian towns
Sunny July days climb to about 25.3°C. Precipitation is plentiful here, more than falls on 88% of Canadian towns. A year here swings 44°C from midwinter lows to midsummer highs. Garden chairs stay out from June to August, the months with highs of 23–25°C.
ECCC publishes no normals for La Minerve itself; the figures are those of St-Jovite, 36 km south-east.
A year in La Minerve at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about La Minerve’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in La Minerve feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
About 196 frosts and 111 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 41 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 1,178 mm a year
October brings the most rain and snow; February, the least. About 143 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Precipitation and snowfall: Lachute, 83 km away (St-Jovite records no complete year of either).
About 218 cm of snow a year
From October to April snow is likely; January is the peak, at about 56 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Heating a home in La Minerve
89% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Heating degree days total each day’s gap between its mean temperature and 18°C. In heating terms, homes need more heating than 80% of Canadian towns.
Living with La Minerve’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
The growing season between frosts lasts about 110 days, roughly 28 May to 15 September.
Highs of 17–27°C with nights of 8°C or more come in Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Wind chill falls below −20 on about 34 days a year: cover skin and dress in layers.
On some 35 days a year the humidex climbs past 30.
A normal year has no blizzard, flood or heat wave in it; La Minerve’s hazards page looks at those.
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 | 36 km south-east |
| Station altitude | 234 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Lachute, 83 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 | Lachute, 83 km |
How La Minerve 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
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share La Minerve’s would only repeat its figures. No closer places have figures: these lie 44–56 km from La Minerve.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Minerve St-Jovite | 25.3°C | −18.3°C | 1,178 mm |
| Lac-des-Écorces 44 km · Maniwaki | 25.6°C about the same | −17.4°C 0.9°C milder | 939 mm |
| Montpellier 50 km · Angers | 26.2°C 0.9°C warmer | −16.5°C 1.8°C milder | 938 mm |
La Minerve weather by month
Month by month, 1991–2020: the usual high, low and mean, the rain and snow, and the snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −5.5°C | −18.3°C | −11.9°C | 97 mm | 56 cm |
| February | −3.3°C | −17.9°C | −10.6°C | 72 mm | 47 cm |
| March | 2.6°C | −11.3°C | −4.4°C | 74 mm | 34 cm |
| April | 10.3°C | −3.2°C | 3.5°C | 100 mm | 8 cm |
| May | 18.5°C | 3.3°C | 11.0°C | 89 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 23.0°C | 8.5°C | 15.7°C | 111 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.3°C | 10.9°C | 18.2°C | 112 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.5°C | 9.8°C | 17.2°C | 104 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.1°C | 5.6°C | 12.9°C | 114 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 12.3°C | 0.5°C | 6.4°C | 120 mm | 2 cm |
| November | 4.6°C | −5.1°C | −0.2°C | 93 mm | 17 cm |
| December | −2.5°C | −12.9°C | −7.7°C | 94 mm | 53 cm |
| Year | 10.8°C | −2.5°C | 4.2°C | 1,178 mm | 218 cm |
In March, anything from −38.3°C to 27.1°C
January is the least predictable month: about two years in three its average lands within 3.2°C of the normal, −11.9°C. August is the steadiest, within 1.0°C.
Where La Minerve’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: 1991–2020 normals for St-Jovite from ECCC’s climate data site, the nearest location with every month of temperature.
- Other locations: precipitation and snowfall come from the nearest location that publishes all twelve months of them, as named above.
- Comparisons: Canada’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ (no city totals, no reserves), each through its own nearest location.
- 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 La Minerve’s climate
How warm does La Minerve get in summer?
At its warmest, in July, the normal high is 25.3°C.
How cold does La Minerve get in winter?
Midwinter means January, when a typical night reaches −18.3°C.
How much rain and snow does La Minerve get?
Precipitation totals 1,178 mm a year, with October the wettest month (120 mm) and February the driest (72 mm).
Are these figures for La Minerve itself?
No, the station behind them is St-Jovite, beyond La Minerve’s boundary.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for La Minerve →
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).