Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Ice on the ground: Nominingue sees more frosts than 89% of Canadian towns
High summer brings afternoon highs near 25.3°C. The gap between a January night and a July afternoon is 44°C. It is a wet place: more rain and snow fall here than on 63% of Canadian towns. Comfortable outdoor weather lasts from June to August, with highs of 23–25°C.
Every figure here comes from St-Jovite, 50 km south-east; ECCC has no normals closer to Nominingue, so they describe the wider area.
A year in Nominingue at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Nominingue’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Nominingue feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
Frost on 196 days, 20°C on 111
Frost comes from September to May; in January almost every night freezes. Some 41 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
The most falls in October, the least in February. On about 141 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
ECCC’s St-Jovite normals leave precipitation out; the figures here come from Maniwaki, 86 km away.
Snowfall: about 218 cm in a normal year
The snow season runs October to April; January brings the most, about 56 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
ECCC’s St-Jovite normals leave snowfall out; the figures here come from Lachute, 99 km away.
Heating a home in Nominingue
89% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Behind the figure: the degrees each day’s mean falls under 18°C, summed for the year. Homes here need more heating than 80% of Canadian towns.
Living with Nominingue’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
From about 28 May to 15 September the garden is usually clear of frost, some 110 days.
Warm afternoons without cold nights, 17–27°C and 8°C or more, mark Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Wind chill falls below −20 on about 34 days a year: cover skin and dress in layers.
About 35 days a year feel above 30 on the humidex.
Severe weather is a separate story from the averages: see Nominingue’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: St-Jovite
Every temperature, frost, snow and degree-day figure on this page is the 1991–2020 normal ECCC publishes for St-Jovite.
| Distance from the town | 50 km south-east |
| Station altitude | 234 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Maniwaki, 86 km |
| Snowfall from | Lachute, 99 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −41.4°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.7°C |
| Average wind | 4.1 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Maniwaki, 86 km |
How Nominingue 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 Nominingue whose figures come from another normals location. The nearest place to Nominingue with figures is 30 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominingue St-Jovite | 25.3°C | −18.3°C | 939 mm |
| Lac-des-Écorces 30 km · Maniwaki | 25.6°C about the same | −17.4°C 0.9°C milder | 939 mm |
Nominingue weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −5.5°C | −18.3°C | −11.9°C | 76 mm | 56 cm |
| February | −3.3°C | −17.9°C | −10.6°C | 56 mm | 47 cm |
| March | 2.6°C | −11.3°C | −4.4°C | 71 mm | 34 cm |
| April | 10.3°C | −3.2°C | 3.5°C | 72 mm | 8 cm |
| May | 18.5°C | 3.3°C | 11.0°C | 73 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 23.0°C | 8.5°C | 15.7°C | 80 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.3°C | 10.9°C | 18.2°C | 87 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.5°C | 9.8°C | 17.2°C | 95 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.1°C | 5.6°C | 12.9°C | 87 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 12.3°C | 0.5°C | 6.4°C | 96 mm | 2 cm |
| November | 4.6°C | −5.1°C | −0.2°C | 72 mm | 17 cm |
| December | −2.5°C | −12.9°C | −7.7°C | 76 mm | 53 cm |
| Year | 10.8°C | −2.5°C | 4.2°C | 939 mm | 218 cm |
January strays furthest from its normal year to year, by 3.2°C; August the least
Each bar spans a month’s coldest and warmest readings over thirty years; March’s run from −38.3°C in 2007 to 27.1°C in 2012.
Where Nominingue’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals, St-Jovite, 1991–2020.
- Other locations: a location missing months of precipitation or snow is filled from the nearest that has them all, never mixed month by month.
- Comparisons: every place of 2,500+ in Canada but the city hubs and the reserves, each on its nearest ECCC location.
- Not on this page: hours of sunshine, missing from the 1991–2020 normals, and a height correction: the town has no elevation on file.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Nominingue’s climate
How warm does Nominingue get in summer?
Summer peaks in July: a typical afternoon reaches 25.3°C.
How cold does Nominingue get in winter?
On a normal January night the air drops to −18.3°C, the coldest of the year.
How much rain and snow does Nominingue get?
Measured as water, a year brings 939 mm: 96 mm in October, the wettest month, and 56 mm in February, the driest.
Are these figures for Nominingue itself?
They are the figures for St-Jovite, which read better as the region’s climate than Nominingue’s own.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Nominingue →
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).