Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0Precipitation in Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes tops that of 82% of Canadian towns: 1,109 mm a year
On a normal July day the thermometer tops out near 26.6°C. By January nights alone, it runs colder than 75% of Canadian towns. Winter and summer sit 43°C apart. Windshields need scraping on about 161 mornings a year, the days the air reaches 0°C or below.
No ECCC station in Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes has 1991–2020 normals; the page reads L'Assomption, 31 km south, instead.
A year in Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
Frost on 161 days, 20°C on 119
From October to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. On about 24 nights a year the air falls below −20°C.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
Rain and melted snow: about 1,109 mm a year
August brings the most rain and snow; February, the least. About 145 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
L'Assomption publishes no full year of precipitation or snowfall, so these figures, and the snow below, come from Fleury, 49 km away.
202 cm of snow in a typical year
Snow falls from October to April, most of all in December (about 49 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Heating a home in Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes
93% 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.
Living with Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
For long days outdoors, Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep bring highs of 17–27°C and lows of 8°C or more.
Parks & trails →Count on some 44 days a year when the wind makes it feel below −20.
Expect around 49 sticky days a year with the humidex above 30.
For the weather that does damage, from ice storms to floods, see Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: L'Assomption
Every temperature, frost, snow and degree-day figure on this page is the 1991–2020 normal ECCC publishes for L'Assomption.
| Distance from the town | 31 km south |
| Station altitude | 21 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Fleury, 49 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −40.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 36.2°C |
| Average wind | 10.0 km/h on average, most often from the south-west |
| Next-nearest location | Fleury, 49 km |
How Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes 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 Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes’s would only repeat its figures. Distances here run 23–28 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes L'Assomption | 26.6°C | −16.0°C | 1,109 mm |
| Berthierville 23 km · Fleury | 26.0°C 0.6°C cooler | −14.8°C 1.2°C milder | 1,109 mm |
| Saint-Barthélemy 28 km · Nicolet | 25.7°C 0.9°C cooler | −16.4°C about the same | 948 mm |
Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes weather by month
Average daily high and low, mean temperature, rain and snow (as water) and snowfall by month, 1991–2020.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −5.9°C | −16.0°C | −10.9°C | 81 mm | 45 cm |
| February | −4.0°C | −14.8°C | −9.4°C | 61 mm | 43 cm |
| March | 1.8°C | −8.3°C | −3.2°C | 71 mm | 38 cm |
| April | 10.8°C | 0.1°C | 5.5°C | 96 mm | 13 cm |
| May | 19.2°C | 7.2°C | 13.2°C | 98 mm | under 1 cm |
| June | 24.3°C | 12.4°C | 18.4°C | 102 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 26.6°C | 14.8°C | 20.7°C | 106 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.5°C | 13.7°C | 19.6°C | 114 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 21.1°C | 9.2°C | 15.2°C | 97 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 13.0°C | 3.2°C | 8.1°C | 108 mm | 2 cm |
| November | 5.4°C | −2.7°C | 1.3°C | 90 mm | 12 cm |
| December | −1.9°C | −10.2°C | −6.1°C | 85 mm | 49 cm |
| Year | 11.3°C | 0.7°C | 6.0°C | 1,109 mm | 202 cm |
The most changeable month: January, give or take 3.1°C; the steadiest, June
March has the widest record range, −29.5°C in 1992 to 26.0°C in 2012; the tick on each bar is the month’s normal.
Where Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals at L'Assomption, the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals.
- Other locations: precipitation and snowfall come from the nearest location that publishes all twelve months of them, as named above.
- Comparisons: all Canadian places of 2,500 or more except city totals and reserves, each read the same way.
- 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 Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes’s climate
How warm does Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes get in summer?
Highs reach 26.6°C on an average July day; no month is warmer.
How cold does Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes get in winter?
At its coldest, in January, the normal low is −16.0°C.
How much rain and snow does Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes get?
Around 1,109 mm a year in all, from 114 mm in August down to 61 mm in February.
Are these figures for Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes itself?
Not as such: L'Assomption is the nearest normals location, and Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes has none.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes →
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