More rain and snow fall on Otterburn Park than on 82% of Canadian towns: 1,109 mm a year
High summer brings afternoon highs near 26.6°C. Summer afternoons here are warmer than in 70% of Canadian towns. August is the wettest month, February the driest. An umbrella or a shovel earns its place on about 145 days a year with 1 mm or more.
ECCC publishes no normals for Otterburn Park itself; the figures are those of L'Acadie, 30 km south-west.
A year in Otterburn Park at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Otterburn Park’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Otterburn Park feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
About 149 frosts and 124 warm days a year
From October to April frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. On about 15 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
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
L'Acadie publishes no full year of precipitation or snowfall, so these figures, and the snow below, come from Fleury, 33 km away.
Snowfall: about 202 cm in a normal year
Snow falls from October to April, most of all in December (about 49 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Heating a home in Otterburn Park
93% 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.
Living with Otterburn Park’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Mild days and mild nights together (17–27°C by day, 8°C or more at night) belong to Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Plan for about 36 days a year with a wind chill below −20.
The humidex tops 30 on about 50 days a year: muggy days to plan around.
What averages leave out, the floods and ice storms, is on Otterburn Park’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: L'Acadie
The page’s figures are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for L'Acadie, one of its 450 normals locations.
| Distance from the town | 30 km south-west |
| Station altitude | 44 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Fleury, 33 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −32.5°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 36.1°C |
| Average wind | 11.4 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Fleury, 33 km |
How Otterburn Park 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
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Otterburn Park’s own would show the same figures).
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Otterburn Park L'Acadie | 26.6°C | −13.6°C | 1,109 mm |
| McMasterville 2.8 km · L'Acadie | 26.6°C about the same | −13.6°C about the same | 1,109 mm |
| Mont-Saint-Hilaire 3.5 km · Fleury | 26.0°C 0.6°C cooler | −14.8°C 1.2°C colder | 1,109 mm |
| Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil 7.5 km · L'Assomption | 26.6°C about the same | −16.0°C 2.4°C colder | 1,109 mm |
Otterburn Park weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −4.3°C | −13.6°C | −9.0°C | 81 mm | 45 cm |
| February | −2.9°C | −12.7°C | −7.8°C | 61 mm | 43 cm |
| March | 2.6°C | −6.7°C | −2.1°C | 71 mm | 38 cm |
| April | 11.1°C | 0.7°C | 5.9°C | 96 mm | 13 cm |
| May | 19.5°C | 7.8°C | 13.7°C | 98 mm | under 1 cm |
| June | 24.2°C | 13.2°C | 18.7°C | 102 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 26.6°C | 15.5°C | 21.1°C | 106 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.3°C | 13.9°C | 19.6°C | 114 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 21.4°C | 9.7°C | 15.6°C | 97 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 13.6°C | 4.1°C | 8.9°C | 108 mm | 2 cm |
| November | 6.1°C | −1.7°C | 2.2°C | 90 mm | 12 cm |
| December | −0.7°C | −8.6°C | −4.7°C | 85 mm | 49 cm |
| Year | 11.9°C | 1.8°C | 6.8°C | 1,109 mm | 202 cm |
A January here can run warm or cold, its average moving by about 2.9°C; the steadiest month is August
The thirty-year records stretch furthest in March: a low of −28.7°C in 2003 and a high of 25.4°C in 2012.
Where Otterburn Park’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the Canadian Climate Normals, 1991–2020, at L'Acadie (the closest location with all twelve months of temperatures).
- 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: all Canadian places of 2,500 or more except city totals and reserves, each read the same way.
- Not on this page: sunshine, not in ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals, and the effect of the town’s height, for which there is no figure.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Otterburn Park’s climate
How warm does Otterburn Park get in summer?
Of all twelve months, July has the warmest afternoons, about 26.6°C.
How cold does Otterburn Park get in winter?
Deep winter means January, when nights average −13.6°C.
How much rain and snow does Otterburn Park get?
A normal year brings 1,109 mm, snow included as water: August is wettest at 114 mm, February driest at 61 mm.
Are these figures for Otterburn Park itself?
They are the closest available: the normals for L'Acadie, since Otterburn Park has none.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Otterburn Park →
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).