Lac-des-Écorces has colder winter nights than 81% of Canadian towns
Midsummer highs settle at about 25.6°C. The wettest month is October; the driest is February. It is a wet place: more rain and snow fall here than on 63% of Canadian towns. Heating does most of its work from October to April, in months below 10°C on average.
Far-off figures: ECCC’s closest normals for Lac-des-Écorces come from Maniwaki, 72 km south-west, so take them as the area’s climate.
A year in Lac-des-Écorces at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Lac-des-Écorces’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Lac-des-Écorces feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
Frost on 181 days, 20°C on 109
From September to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. Some 33 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
About 939 mm of rain and snow a year
On about 141 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Heating a home in Lac-des-Écorces
90% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Degree days add up how far each day’s mean temperature falls below 18°C over a year. By this count, homes here need more heating than 72% of Canadian towns.
Living with Lac-des-Écorces’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Plant out after about 16 May; the first frost of autumn usually arrives near 26 September, leaving roughly 132 days without frost.
Plan time outside for Jun, Jul and Aug: highs of 17–27°C and nights no colder than 8°C.
Parks & trails →Frostbite weather, a wind chill under −20, turns up on about 45 days a year.
About 34 days a year turn sultry, with the humidex past 30.
Extremes don’t show in averages: floods, wildfire smoke and ice storms are on Lac-des-Écorces’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Maniwaki
Maniwaki is a composite: ECCC joins 2 stations’ readings to make its 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 72 km south-west |
| Station altitude | 199 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | No location within 100 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −38.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.3°C |
| Average wind | 7.7 km/h on average, most often from the south |
| Next-nearest location | St-Jovite, 80 km |
How Lac-des-Écorces 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 Lac-des-Écorces whose figures come from another normals location. The nearest place to Lac-des-Écorces with figures is 19 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lac-des-Écorces Maniwaki | 25.6°C | −17.4°C | 939 mm |
| Chute-Saint-Philippe 19 km · St-Jovite | 25.3°C about the same | −18.3°C 0.9°C colder | 939 mm |
Lac-des-Écorces weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean and precipitation.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −6.4°C | −17.4°C | −12.0°C | 76 mm |
| February | −4.3°C | −16.5°C | −10.4°C | 56 mm |
| March | 2.0°C | −10.0°C | −4.0°C | 71 mm |
| April | 10.0°C | −2.1°C | 4.0°C | 72 mm |
| May | 18.6°C | 4.8°C | 11.7°C | 73 mm |
| June | 23.4°C | 10.0°C | 16.7°C | 80 mm |
| July | 25.6°C | 12.6°C | 19.1°C | 87 mm |
| August | 24.3°C | 11.5°C | 17.9°C | 95 mm |
| September | 19.6°C | 7.1°C | 13.3°C | 87 mm |
| October | 11.8°C | 1.5°C | 6.7°C | 96 mm |
| November | 4.1°C | −4.5°C | −0.2°C | 72 mm |
| December | −3.1°C | −12.2°C | −7.7°C | 76 mm |
| Year | 10.5°C | −1.3°C | 4.6°C | 939 mm |
From −31.8°C to 27.2°C: March’s coldest and warmest days since 1991
From one year to the next, February’s average typically shifts by 3.1°C around its normal of −10.4°C, the widest of any month, while July’s shifts by 1.1°C.
Where Lac-des-Écorces’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: 1991–2020 normals for Maniwaki from ECCC’s climate data site, the nearest location with every month of temperature.
- 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: snowfall (no location within 100 km publishes a full year of it), sunshine (none for 1991–2020) and an altitude correction.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Lac-des-Écorces’s climate
How warm does Lac-des-Écorces get in summer?
Expect highs near 25.6°C in July, the hottest month on average.
How cold does Lac-des-Écorces get in winter?
Lows sink to −17.4°C on an average January night.
How much rain and snow does Lac-des-Écorces get?
The year adds up to 939 mm. October is the peak month (96 mm) and February the low one (56 mm).
Are these figures for Lac-des-Écorces itself?
They are the figures for Maniwaki, which read better as the region’s climate than Lac-des-Écorces’s own.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Lac-des-Écorces →
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