Photo: Miguel Tremblay · CC0Mont-Carmel sits near the top of Canadian towns for snow: about 349 cm a year
The warmest part of a July day comes in at 24.2°C on average. In January, nights here are colder than in 72% of Canadian towns. Expect the most rain and snow in October and the least in February. About 129 days a year bring 1 mm of precipitation or more.
Borrowed figures: Mont-Carmel has no normals station, so these come from La Pocatière, 16 km south-west.
A year in Mont-Carmel at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Mont-Carmel’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Mont-Carmel feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
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
About 906 mm of rain and snow a year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
About 349 cm of snow a year
From October to May snow is likely; December is the peak, at about 83 cm. 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, 77 km away.
Heating a home in Mont-Carmel
89% 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. Over a year, a home here needs more heating than 63% of Canadian towns.
Living with Mont-Carmel’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
The comfortable months for a day outside, highs of 17–27°C and nights of 8°C or more: Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Bitter wind chill, under −20, comes on about 52 days a year.
Roughly 31 days a year feel hotter than 30 once humidity is counted.
Averages smooth over blizzards, ice storms, floods and heat waves; Mont-Carmel’s hazards page covers the risks.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: La Pocatière
ECCC builds the La Pocatière normals from 2 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 16 km south-west |
| Station altitude | 31 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Ste Lucie, 77 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, 49 km |
How Mont-Carmel 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
Places around Mont-Carmel whose figures come from another normals location. No closer place has figures: this one lies 34 km from Mont-Carmel.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mont-Carmel La Pocatière | 24.2°C | −15.3°C | 906 mm |
| Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska 34 km · Rivière-du-Loup/St-Antonin | 22.5°C 1.7°C cooler | −15.5°C about the same | 906 mm |
Mont-Carmel weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and 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 |
In March, anything from −27.2°C to 21.8°C
January is the least predictable month: about two years in three its average lands within 2.6°C of the normal, −10.9°C. June is the steadiest, within 1.1°C.
Where Mont-Carmel’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals for La Pocatière, 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 2,500-plus towns and neighbourhoods of Canada, each read from its closest normals location; whole cities and reserves aren’t counted.
- Not on this page: sunshine, absent from every 1991–2020 location, and an altitude correction, for want of the town’s own elevation.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Mont-Carmel’s climate
How warm does Mont-Carmel get in summer?
In July, the warmest month, the typical high is 24.2°C.
How cold does Mont-Carmel get in winter?
Midwinter means January, when a typical night reaches −15.3°C.
How much rain and snow does Mont-Carmel get?
About 906 mm a year, rain and melted snow together. October is the wettest month (99 mm) and February the driest (61 mm).
Are these figures for Mont-Carmel itself?
They come from La Pocatière, which ECCC uses as the nearest normals location for Mont-Carmel.
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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).