Photo: Charny · CC BY-SA 3.0Maria sits near the top of Canadian towns for snow: about 337 cm a year
Expect July afternoons of about 23.8°C. July is the wettest month, February the driest. In January, nights here are colder than in 77% of Canadian towns. Frost comes on about 182 days a year, so leave time to clear the car.
ECCC publishes no normals for Maria itself; the figures are those of Charlo, 33 km south-west.
A year in Maria at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Maria’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Maria feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
182 frost days and 82 days above 20°C a year
From September to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. Some 23 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 1,011 mm of rain and snow a year
Some 130 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
337 cm of snow in a typical year
From October to May snow is likely; January is the peak, at about 71 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Snowfall: Bathurst, 63 km away (Charlo records no complete year of it).
Heating a home in Maria
88% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
Measured against 18°C: each day’s shortfall in mean temperature, added over twelve months. By this count, homes here need more heating than 81% of Canadian towns.
Living with Maria’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
The growing season between frosts lasts about 135 days, roughly 18 May to 1 October.
Afternoons of 17–27°C and nights of at least 8°C arrive in Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →The wind chill passes −20 on about 56 days in a normal year.
The air feels heavier than 30 on the humidex for about 21 days a year.
What averages leave out, the floods and ice storms, is on Maria’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Charlo
ECCC builds the Charlo normals from 2 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 33 km south-west |
| Station altitude | 40 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Bathurst, 63 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −31.9°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 36.7°C |
| Average wind | 13.2 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | New Carlisle, 56 km |
How Maria compares
Against the 2,611 Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, each read from its own normals location; the dots are the other locations those towns use in Quebec.
Nearby towns’ climate
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Maria’s own would show the same figures). The nearest places to Maria with figures are 24–48 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maria Charlo | 23.8°C | −16.2°C | 1,011 mm |
| Caplan 24 km · New Carlisle | 22.7°C 1.1°C cooler | −14.2°C 2.0°C milder | 1,095 mm |
| Petit-Rocher 48 km · Bathurst | 25.1°C 1.3°C warmer | −16.0°C about the same | 1,118 mm |
Maria 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 | −7.0°C | −16.2°C | −11.7°C | 71 mm | 71 cm |
| February | −5.5°C | −15.6°C | −10.6°C | 65 mm | 69 cm |
| March | 0.0°C | −9.8°C | −4.9°C | 79 mm | 68 cm |
| April | 6.5°C | −2.5°C | 2.0°C | 69 mm | 30 cm |
| May | 14.8°C | 3.4°C | 9.2°C | 92 mm | 2 cm |
| June | 20.5°C | 9.2°C | 14.8°C | 90 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 23.8°C | 13.0°C | 18.4°C | 104 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 23.2°C | 12.1°C | 17.7°C | 82 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 18.2°C | 7.3°C | 12.8°C | 101 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 10.7°C | 2.1°C | 6.4°C | 94 mm | 6 cm |
| November | 3.5°C | −3.6°C | −0.1°C | 87 mm | 22 cm |
| December | −3.0°C | −10.6°C | −6.8°C | 76 mm | 68 cm |
| Year | 8.8°C | −0.9°C | 3.9°C | 1,011 mm | 337 cm |
February varies most from one year to the next (2.7°C), August least
The thirty-year records stretch furthest in March: a low of −30.1°C in 2001 and a high of 22.6°C in 2012.
Where Maria’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals for Charlo, the nearest location with a full year of 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, which none of ECCC’s 450 locations publishes for 1991–2020, and the town’s own height above sea level, so no figure is adjusted for altitude.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Maria’s climate
How warm does Maria get in summer?
The year’s warmest days come in July, with highs averaging 23.8°C.
How cold does Maria get in winter?
At its coldest, in January, the normal low is −16.2°C.
How much rain and snow does Maria get?
1,011 mm a year counting snow as water. The wettest month is July (104 mm); the driest, February (65 mm).
Are these figures for Maria itself?
Not exactly. Maria lacks a normals station, so Charlo supplies the figures.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Maria →
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).