Photo: Chacal1233 · CC BY-SA 3.0Paspébiac has cooler summers than 94% of Canadian towns
Midwinter brings lows of about −14.2°C. A year here swings 37°C from midwinter lows to midsummer highs. Rain and snow together come to more here than on 80% of Canadian towns. Warm coats and heating bills mark the months from October to May, when means dip under 10°C.
Measured at New Carlisle, 1.6 km south-west: ECCC’s normals for 1991–2020.
A year in Paspébiac at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Paspébiac’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Paspébiac feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
Frost on 175 days, 20°C on 70
The frost season runs October to May, and January freezes nearly every night. Some 12 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
Rain and melted snow: about 1,095 mm a year
The most falls in October, the least in February. Some 133 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
343 cm of snow in a typical year
Expect snow from October to May, with about 84 cm in February, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snowfall: Bas Caraquet, 41 km away (New Carlisle records no complete year of it).
Heating a home in Paspébiac
87% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
ECCC sums, over the year, how many degrees each day’s average falls short of 18°C. That means homes here need more heating than 72% of Canadian towns.
Living with Paspébiac’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Highs of 17–27°C with nights of 8°C or more come in Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Bitter wind chill, under −20, comes on about 45 days a year.
On some 16 days a year the humidex climbs past 30.
Extremes don’t show in averages: floods, wildfire smoke and ice storms are on Paspébiac’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: New Carlisle
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for New Carlisle are 2 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 1.6 km south-west |
| Station altitude | 45 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Bas Caraquet, 41 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −31.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 34.1°C |
| Average wind | 12.4 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Bas Caraquet, 41 km |
How Paspébiac 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 Paspébiac’s would only repeat its figures. Distances here run 35–45 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Paspébiac.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paspébiac New Carlisle | 22.7°C | −14.2°C | 1,095 mm |
| Bertrand 35 km · Bas Caraquet | 23.6°C 0.9°C warmer | −12.7°C 1.5°C milder | 984 mm |
| Petit-Rocher 45 km · Bathurst | 25.1°C 2.4°C warmer | −16.0°C 1.8°C colder | 1,118 mm |
Paspébiac 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 | −5.8°C | −14.2°C | −10.1°C | 83 mm | 72 cm |
| February | −4.9°C | −13.8°C | −9.4°C | 71 mm | 84 cm |
| March | 0.1°C | −8.7°C | −4.3°C | 92 mm | 61 cm |
| April | 6.1°C | −2.2°C | 2.0°C | 73 mm | 26 cm |
| May | 13.3°C | 3.3°C | 8.3°C | 90 mm | 3 cm |
| June | 19.1°C | 8.7°C | 13.9°C | 94 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 22.7°C | 12.8°C | 17.8°C | 96 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 22.2°C | 12.4°C | 17.3°C | 83 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 17.8°C | 8.0°C | 12.9°C | 90 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 10.8°C | 2.9°C | 6.9°C | 117 mm | 2 cm |
| November | 4.2°C | −2.4°C | 0.9°C | 101 mm | 19 cm |
| December | −1.9°C | −8.9°C | −5.4°C | 106 mm | 77 cm |
| Year | 8.6°C | −0.2°C | 4.2°C | 1,095 mm | 343 cm |
A February here can run warm or cold, its average moving by about 2.5°C; the steadiest month is August
Records from 1991 to 2020: no month spans more than March, between −25.0°C (1992) and 18.0°C (2012).
Where Paspébiac’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the Canadian Climate Normals, 1991–2020, at New Carlisle (the closest location with all twelve months of temperatures).
- 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: 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: 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 Paspébiac’s climate
How warm does Paspébiac get in summer?
Peak warmth comes in July, at about 22.7°C by mid-afternoon.
How cold does Paspébiac get in winter?
Lows sink to −14.2°C on an average January night.
How much rain and snow does Paspébiac get?
Count on roughly 1,095 mm a year, heaviest in October (117 mm) and lightest in February (71 mm).
Are these figures for Paspébiac itself?
Yes. New Carlisle, where ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals were measured, lies within Paspébiac.
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