Photo: Malagauche · CC BY-SA 3.0Few Canadian towns get more snow than Les Éboulements: about 349 cm a year
On a normal July day the thermometer tops out near 24.2°C. Expect the most rain and snow in October and the least in February. By January nights alone, it runs colder than 72% of Canadian towns. Windshields need scraping on about 170 mornings a year, the days the air reaches 0°C or below.
ECCC publishes no normals for Les Éboulements itself; the figures are those of La Pocatière, 27 km south-east.
A year in Les Éboulements at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Les Éboulements’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Les Éboulements 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
Some 129 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 349 cm in a normal year
Expect snow from October to May, with about 83 cm in December, the snowiest month. 9th snowiest of 494 towns of 2,500+ in Quebec.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
ECCC’s La Pocatière normals leave snowfall out; the figures here come from Ste Lucie, 86 km away.
Heating a home in Les Éboulements
89% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Warm days count for nothing; each colder day adds how far its mean sits below 18°C. In heating terms, homes need more heating than 63% of Canadian towns.
Living with Les Éboulements’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, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Frostbite weather, a wind chill under −20, turns up on about 52 days a year.
Roughly 31 days a year feel hotter than 30 once humidity is counted.
For blizzards, floods and wildfire, turn to Les Éboulements’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: La Pocatière
La Pocatière is a composite: ECCC joins 2 stations’ readings to make its 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 27 km south-east |
| Station altitude | 31 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Ste Lucie, 86 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 | Cap-Tourmente, 54 km |
How Les Éboulements 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 Les Éboulements’s would only repeat its figures. No closer place has figures: this one lies 24 km from Les Éboulements.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Les Éboulements La Pocatière | 24.2°C | −15.3°C | 906 mm |
| Petite-Rivière-Saint-François 24 km · Cap-Tourmente | 25.0°C 0.8°C warmer | −14.8°C 0.5°C milder | 906 mm |
Les Éboulements 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 | −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 |
January varies most from one year to the next (2.6°C), June least
March has the widest record range, −27.2°C in 2007 to 21.8°C in 2012; the tick on each bar is the month’s normal.
Where Les Éboulements’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: precipitation and snowfall come from the nearest location that publishes all twelve months of them, as named above.
- 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 Les Éboulements’s climate
How warm does Les Éboulements get in summer?
Expect highs near 24.2°C in July, the hottest month on average.
How cold does Les Éboulements get in winter?
Midwinter means January, when a typical night reaches −15.3°C.
How much rain and snow does Les Éboulements get?
Count on roughly 906 mm a year, heaviest in October (99 mm) and lightest in February (61 mm).
Are these figures for Les Éboulements itself?
The figures are ECCC’s for La Pocatière; Les Éboulements has no normals station.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Les Éboulements →
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).