Photo: Alain Hardy · CC BY 3.0Winter nights in Notre-Dame-du-Laus are colder than in 81% of Canadian towns
Sunny July days climb to about 25.6°C. Rain or snow is most frequent in October and least in February. It is a wet place: more rain and snow fall here than on 63% of Canadian towns. Plan for rain or snow on about 141 days a year, the days with 1 mm or more.
ECCC publishes no normals for Notre-Dame-du-Laus itself; the figures are those of Maniwaki, 42 km west.
A year in Notre-Dame-du-Laus at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Notre-Dame-du-Laus’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Notre-Dame-du-Laus feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
About 181 frosts and 109 warm days a year
Frost comes from September to May; in January almost every night freezes. On about 33 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
939 mm of precipitation in a typical year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 180 cm in a normal year
Snow falls from October to April, most of all in January (about 47 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Maniwaki publishes no full year of snowfall, so these figures come from Angers, 63 km away.
Heating a home in Notre-Dame-du-Laus
90% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
A heating degree day is one degree of shortfall below 18°C for one day, summed over the year. A house here needs more heating than 72% of Canadian towns.
Living with Notre-Dame-du-Laus’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Frost usually lets go around 16 May and returns near 26 September, about 132 days apart.
The comfortable months for a day outside, highs of 17–27°C and nights of 8°C or more: Jun, Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Roughly 45 days a year feel colder than −20 in the wind.
Humid summer days, the humidex above 30, number about 34 a year.
Storms, floods and heat waves sit outside these normals; Notre-Dame-du-Laus’s hazards page covers them.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Maniwaki
Maniwaki is a composite: ECCC joins 2 stations’ readings to make its 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 42 km west |
| Station altitude | 199 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Angers, 63 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 | Angers, 63 km |
How Notre-Dame-du-Laus 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
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Notre-Dame-du-Laus’s would only repeat its figures. No closer places have figures: these lie 26–50 km from Notre-Dame-du-Laus.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notre-Dame-du-Laus Maniwaki | 25.6°C | −17.4°C | 939 mm |
| Val-des-Bois 26 km · Angers | 26.2°C 0.6°C warmer | −16.5°C 0.9°C milder | 939 mm |
| Lac-Simon 41 km · St-Jovite | 25.3°C about the same | −18.3°C 0.9°C colder | 1,178 mm |
Notre-Dame-du-Laus weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −6.4°C | −17.4°C | −12.0°C | 76 mm | 47 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 | 27 cm |
| April | 10.0°C | −2.1°C | 4.0°C | 72 mm | 7 cm |
| May | 18.6°C | 4.8°C | 11.7°C | 73 mm | 0 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 | 16 cm |
| December | −3.1°C | −12.2°C | −7.7°C | 76 mm | 46 cm |
| Year | 10.5°C | −1.3°C | 4.6°C | 939 mm | 180 cm |
February varies most from one year to the next (3.1°C), July least
Records from 1991 to 2020: no month spans more than March, between −31.8°C (2007) and 27.2°C (2012).
Where Notre-Dame-du-Laus’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 normals from ECCC for Maniwaki, its nearest location with complete temperatures.
- Other locations: ECCC blanks a month that fails its completeness rule, so the precipitation or snowfall here comes from the next location with all twelve months.
- 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 (no 1991–2020 normals exist for it) and any altitude adjustment, since there is no elevation for the town itself.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Notre-Dame-du-Laus’s climate
How warm does Notre-Dame-du-Laus get in summer?
Of all twelve months, July has the warmest afternoons, about 25.6°C.
How cold does Notre-Dame-du-Laus get in winter?
January nights average −17.4°C, the coldest of the year.
How much rain and snow does Notre-Dame-du-Laus get?
Over twelve months, rain and melted snow come to 939 mm; the range runs from 56 mm in February to 96 mm in October.
Are these figures for Notre-Dame-du-Laus itself?
They describe Maniwaki, the nearest normals location, rather than Notre-Dame-du-Laus itself.
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