Photo: Eric Chabot · CC BY-SA 2.0Hardly any Canadian towns see fresher July days than Notre-Dame-du-Portage
January nights here settle around −15.5°C. It is a wet place: more rain and snow fall here than on 83% of Canadian towns. A year here swings 38°C from midwinter lows to midsummer highs. An umbrella or a shovel earns its place on about 137 days a year with 1 mm or more.
These are not Notre-Dame-du-Portage’s own readings: ECCC keeps no normals there, so the page uses Rivière-du-Loup/St-Antonin, 7.1 km north-east.
A year in Notre-Dame-du-Portage at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Notre-Dame-du-Portage’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-Portage feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
Frost on 176 days, 20°C on 74
Frost comes from October to May; in January almost every night freezes. On about 17 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 1,124 mm a year
October brings the most rain and snow; January, the least.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Rivière-du-Loup/St-Antonin publishes no full year of precipitation or snowfall, so these figures, and the snow below, come from Grandes-Bergeronnes, 55 km away.
Snowfall: about 281 cm in a normal year
The snow season runs October to May; December brings the most, about 66 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Heating a home in Notre-Dame-du-Portage
88% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
Every day colder than 18°C on average adds its gap in degrees to the year’s heating total. Over a year, a home here needs more heating than 81% of Canadian towns.
Living with Notre-Dame-du-Portage’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
The outdoor season by the averages is Jun, Jul and Aug, with highs of 17–27°C and lows of 8°C or more.
Parks & trails →Winter brings about 49 days with a wind chill below −20.
Plan shade and water for about 16 days a year above 30 on the humidex.
Thirty years of averages say little about one bad storm; Notre-Dame-du-Portage’s hazards page does.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Rivière-du-Loup/St-Antonin
ECCC builds the Rivière-du-Loup/St-Antonin normals from 2 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 7.1 km north-east |
| Station altitude | 147 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Grandes-Bergeronnes, 55 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −31.3°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 34.2°C |
| Average wind | 9.8 km/h on average, most often from the north |
| Next-nearest location | Grandes-Bergeronnes, 55 km |
How Notre-Dame-du-Portage 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
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Notre-Dame-du-Portage’s own would show the same figures). The nearest place to Notre-Dame-du-Portage with figures is 30 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notre-Dame-du-Portage Rivière-du-Loup/St-Antonin | 22.5°C | −15.5°C | 1,124 mm |
| Saint-Pascal 30 km · La Pocatière | 24.2°C 1.7°C warmer | −15.3°C about the same | 906 mm |
Notre-Dame-du-Portage weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −7.3°C | −15.5°C | −11.4°C | 63 mm | 51 cm |
| February | −6.1°C | −14.4°C | −10.2°C | 68 mm | 64 cm |
| March | −0.8°C | −9.0°C | −4.9°C | 74 mm | 52 cm |
| April | 6.0°C | −1.9°C | 2.1°C | 98 mm | 21 cm |
| May | 14.2°C | 4.2°C | 9.3°C | 96 mm | 1 cm |
| June | 19.7°C | 9.4°C | 14.5°C | 101 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 22.5°C | 12.8°C | 17.7°C | 113 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 21.8°C | 12.2°C | 17.0°C | 111 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 17.2°C | 7.9°C | 12.5°C | 110 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 9.6°C | 2.2°C | 5.9°C | 124 mm | 5 cm |
| November | 2.8°C | −3.3°C | −0.3°C | 78 mm | 22 cm |
| December | −3.7°C | −10.4°C | −7.1°C | 86 mm | 66 cm |
| Year | 8.0°C | −0.5°C | 3.8°C | 1,124 mm | 281 cm |
The most changeable month: February, give or take 2.8°C; the steadiest, August
Records from 1991 to 2020: no month spans more than March, between −25.8°C (2003) and 21.1°C (2012).
Where Notre-Dame-du-Portage’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s normals for Rivière-du-Loup/St-Antonin, 1991–2020, chosen as the nearest location with a full temperature record.
- 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: 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, which none of ECCC’s 450 locations publishes for 1991–2020, and the town’s own height above sea level, so no figure is adjusted for altitude.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Notre-Dame-du-Portage’s climate
How warm does Notre-Dame-du-Portage get in summer?
In July, the warmest month, the typical high is 22.5°C.
How cold does Notre-Dame-du-Portage get in winter?
Overnight lows average −15.5°C in January, the coldest month.
How much rain and snow does Notre-Dame-du-Portage get?
Around 1,124 mm a year in all, from 124 mm in October down to 63 mm in January.
Are these figures for Notre-Dame-du-Portage itself?
Not exactly. Notre-Dame-du-Portage lacks a normals station, so Rivière-du-Loup/St-Antonin supplies the figures.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Notre-Dame-du-Portage →
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