Photo: Bouchecl · CC BY-SA 3.0Few Canadian towns get more snow than La Pocatière: about 349 cm a year
High summer brings afternoon highs near 24.2°C. By January nights alone, it runs colder than 72% of Canadian towns. The seasons are far apart: from a winter night to a summer afternoon the average spans 40°C. Windshields need scraping on about 170 mornings a year, the days the air reaches 0°C or below.
Read at La Pocatière, 1.8 km south: ECCC’s normals for 1991–2020.
A year in La Pocatière at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about La Pocatière’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in La Pocatière feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on 170 days, 20°C on 92
From October to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 18 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
906 mm of precipitation in a typical year
October is the wettest month and February the driest. On about 129 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
349 cm of snow in a typical year
Expect snow from October to May, with about 83 cm in December, the snowiest month. 9th snowiest of 493 towns of 2,500+ in Quebec.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
La Pocatière publishes no full year of snowfall, so these figures come from Ste Lucie, 71 km away.
Heating a home in La Pocatière
89% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
A heating degree day is one degree of shortfall below 18°C for one day, summed over the year. By this count, homes here need more heating than 63% of Canadian towns.
Living with La Pocatière’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Plan time outside for Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep: highs of 17–27°C and nights no colder than 8°C.
Parks & trails →Winter brings about 52 days with a wind chill below −20.
A humidex above 30 marks about 31 days in a normal year.
A normal year has no blizzard, flood or heat wave in it; La Pocatière’s hazards page looks at those.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: La Pocatière
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for La Pocatière are 2 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 1.8 km south |
| Station altitude | 31 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Ste Lucie, 71 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −33.5°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.7°C |
| Average wind | 14.8 km/h on average, most often from the south-west |
| Next-nearest location | Rivière-du-Loup/St-Antonin, 61 km |
How La Pocatière 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
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on La Pocatière’s own would show the same figures). La Pocatière has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 38–49 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Pocatière | 24.2°C | −15.3°C | 906 mm |
| L'Islet 38 km · Cap-Tourmente | 25.0°C 0.8°C warmer | −14.8°C 0.5°C milder | 906 mm |
| Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska 47 km · Rivière-du-Loup/St-Antonin | 22.5°C 1.7°C cooler | −15.5°C about the same | 906 mm |
| Saint-Pamphile 49 km · Ste Lucie | 23.9°C about the same | −19.6°C 4.3°C colder | 906 mm |
La Pocatière 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 | −6.5°C | −15.3°C | −10.9°C | 70 mm | 62 cm |
| February | −5.0°C | −14.3°C | −9.6°C | 61 mm | 71 cm |
| March | 0.1°C | −8.8°C | −4.4°C | 62 mm | 61 cm |
| April | 7.6°C | −1.5°C | 3.0°C | 69 mm | 27 cm |
| May | 16.2°C | 4.7°C | 10.4°C | 74 mm | 2 cm |
| June | 21.6°C | 10.0°C | 15.8°C | 85 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 24.2°C | 13.2°C | 18.7°C | 81 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 23.6°C | 12.4°C | 18.0°C | 82 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 18.9°C | 8.3°C | 13.6°C | 78 mm | under 1 cm |
| October | 11.1°C | 2.7°C | 7.0°C | 99 mm | 11 cm |
| November | 4.3°C | −2.7°C | 0.8°C | 72 mm | 30 cm |
| December | −2.6°C | −10.1°C | −6.4°C | 74 mm | 83 cm |
| Year | 9.5°C | −0.1°C | 4.7°C | 906 mm | 349 cm |
Two years in three, January’s average lands within 2.6°C of normal, against the steadier June
Records from 1991 to 2020: no month spans more than March, between −27.2°C (2007) and 21.8°C (2012).
Where La Pocatière’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 normals from ECCC for La Pocatière, 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: the towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ across Canada, each on its nearest normals location, without the city totals or the reserves.
- 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 La Pocatière’s climate
How warm does La Pocatière get in summer?
July is the warmest month, with average highs of 24.2°C.
How cold does La Pocatière get in winter?
Lows sink to −15.3°C on an average January night.
How much rain and snow does La Pocatière get?
Some 906 mm falls in a year. Most of it comes in October (99 mm), the least in February (61 mm).
Are these figures for La Pocatière itself?
Nearly: La Pocatière, the location behind them, sits just beyond La Pocatière’s boundary.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for La Pocatière →
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).