Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Winter nights in Messines are colder than in 81% of Canadian towns
Midsummer highs settle at about 25.6°C. A year here swings 43°C from midwinter lows to midsummer highs. Rain and snow together come to more here than on 63% of Canadian towns. Warm coats and heating bills mark the months from October to April, when means dip under 10°C.
ECCC publishes no normals for Messines itself; the figures are those of Maniwaki, 14 km south-west.
A year in Messines at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Messines’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Messines feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on 181 days, 20°C on 109
Frost comes from September to May; in January almost every night freezes. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 33 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
939 mm of precipitation in a typical year
The most falls in October, the least in February. About 141 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
182 cm of snow in a typical year
The snow season runs October to April; December brings the most, about 45 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
ECCC’s Maniwaki normals leave snowfall out; the figures here come from Charteris, 72 km away.
Heating a home in Messines
90% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Every day colder than 18°C on average adds its gap in degrees to the year’s heating total. By this count, homes here need more heating than 72% of Canadian towns.
Living with Messines’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Count on about 132 frost-free days: the last frost averages 16 May, the first 26 September.
Highs of 17–27°C with nights of 8°C or more come in Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Roughly 45 days a year feel colder than −20 in the wind.
Roughly 34 days a year feel hotter than 30 once humidity is counted.
What averages leave out, the floods and ice storms, is on Messines’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Maniwaki
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for Maniwaki are 2 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 14 km south-west |
| Station altitude | 199 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Charteris, 72 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 | Charteris, 72 km |
How Messines 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
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Messines’s would only repeat its figures. The nearest places to Messines with figures are 50–73 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Messines Maniwaki | 25.6°C | −17.4°C | 939 mm |
| Low 50 km · Luskville | 26.9°C 1.3°C warmer | −16.0°C 1.4°C milder | 968 mm |
| Val-des-Bois 52 km · Angers | 26.2°C 0.6°C warmer | −16.5°C 0.9°C milder | 939 mm |
| Mansfield-et-Pontefract 71 km · Charteris | 26.4°C 0.8°C warmer | −16.9°C 0.5°C milder | 932 mm |
Messines 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 | −6.4°C | −17.4°C | −12.0°C | 76 mm | 42 cm |
| February | −4.3°C | −16.5°C | −10.4°C | 56 mm | 35 cm |
| March | 2.0°C | −10.0°C | −4.0°C | 71 mm | 31 cm |
| April | 10.0°C | −2.1°C | 4.0°C | 72 mm | 8 cm |
| May | 18.6°C | 4.8°C | 11.7°C | 73 mm | under 1 cm |
| June | 23.4°C | 10.0°C | 16.7°C | 80 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.6°C | 12.6°C | 19.1°C | 87 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.3°C | 11.5°C | 17.9°C | 95 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 19.6°C | 7.1°C | 13.3°C | 87 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 11.8°C | 1.5°C | 6.7°C | 96 mm | 2 cm |
| November | 4.1°C | −4.5°C | −0.2°C | 72 mm | 19 cm |
| December | −3.1°C | −12.2°C | −7.7°C | 76 mm | 45 cm |
| Year | 10.5°C | −1.3°C | 4.6°C | 939 mm | 182 cm |
The month with the widest range: March, −31.8°C to 27.2°C
Bars run from each month’s record low to its record high over 1991–2020; February is the month whose average wanders most from year to year (±3.1°C around −10.4°C), July the one that wanders least (±1.1°C).
Where Messines’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals at Maniwaki, the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals.
- 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: Canada’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ (no city totals, no reserves), each through its own nearest location.
- Not on this page: a sunshine figure (ECCC published none for 1991–2020) and any lapse-rate correction for height, as the town has no elevation here.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Messines’s climate
How warm does Messines get in summer?
On a normal day in July the thermometer climbs to 25.6°C, the warmest of the year.
How cold does Messines get in winter?
Winter bottoms out in January, with lows near −17.4°C.
How much rain and snow does Messines get?
Rain and snow, with snow counted as water, total 939 mm a year; October leads with 96 mm and February trails with 56 mm.
Are these figures for Messines itself?
Not quite: they come from Maniwaki, the closest ECCC normals location to Messines.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Messines →
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).