Plaisance has colder winter nights than 78% of Canadian towns
Expect July afternoons of about 26.2°C. From frozen January to warm July, readings climb 43°C. Summer afternoons here are warmer than in 62% of Canadian towns. Wet days, with 1 mm of rain or snow or more, come about 120 times a year.
Borrowed figures: Plaisance has no normals station, so these come from Angers, 35 km west.
A year in Plaisance at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Plaisance’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Plaisance feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
Frost on 179 days, 20°C on 112
From September to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 29 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
About 938 mm of rain and snow a year
June is the wettest month and February the driest.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
ECCC’s Angers normals leave out precipitation and snow; both come from Ottawa (City) here, 55 km away.
Snowfall: about 185 cm in a normal year
Expect snow from October to April, with about 45 cm in January, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Plaisance
91% 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. A house here needs more heating than 60% of Canadian towns.
Living with Plaisance’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
A normal year gives the garden about 119 frost-free days, roughly 26 May to 22 September.
Plan time outside for Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep: highs of 17–27°C and nights no colder than 8°C.
Parks & trails →A typical year is calm by definition; Plaisance’s hazards page covers the exceptions.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Angers
The page’s figures are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Angers, one of its 450 normals locations.
| Distance from the town | 35 km west |
| Station altitude | 91 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Ottawa (City), 55 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −39.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 36.0°C |
| Next-nearest location | Ottawa (City), 55 km |
How Plaisance 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 Plaisance’s own would show the same figures). No closer places have figures: these lie 32–39 km from Plaisance.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plaisance Angers | 26.2°C | −16.5°C | 938 mm |
| Lac-Simon 32 km · St-Jovite | 25.3°C 0.9°C cooler | −18.3°C 1.8°C colder | 1,178 mm |
| Casselman 35 km · Cornwall | 27.3°C 1.1°C warmer | −11.8°C 4.7°C milder | 1,006 mm |
| Vankleek Hill 35 km · Lachute | 26.5°C about the same | −14.7°C 1.8°C milder | 1,178 mm |
Plaisance weather by month
Month by month, 1991–2020: the usual high, low and mean, the rain and snow, and the snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −5.6°C | −16.5°C | −11.2°C | 65 mm | 45 cm |
| February | −3.3°C | −15.5°C | −9.5°C | 52 mm | 41 cm |
| March | 2.3°C | −8.7°C | −3.7°C | 62 mm | 31 cm |
| April | 10.7°C | −1.0°C | 5.0°C | 81 mm | 8 cm |
| May | 19.1°C | 5.6°C | 12.2°C | 80 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 23.8°C | 10.9°C | 17.4°C | 95 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 26.2°C | 13.4°C | 19.6°C | 92 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.1°C | 12.5°C | 18.7°C | 87 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.4°C | 8.1°C | 14.2°C | 87 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 12.6°C | 2.2°C | 7.4°C | 90 mm | 2 cm |
| November | 5.2°C | −3.5°C | 1.0°C | 72 mm | 16 cm |
| December | −2.1°C | −11.0°C | −7.0°C | 74 mm | 43 cm |
| Year | 11.2°C | −0.3°C | 5.3°C | 938 mm | 185 cm |
The most changeable month: January, give or take 3.5°C; the steadiest, August
March has the widest record range, −33.5°C in 2007 to 27.0°C in 2012; the tick on each bar is the month’s normal.
Where Plaisance’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals, Angers: the nearest of its locations with every month’s 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: every place of 2,500+ in Canada but the city hubs and the reserves, each on its nearest ECCC location.
- 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 Plaisance’s climate
How warm does Plaisance get in summer?
On a normal day in July the thermometer climbs to 26.2°C, the warmest of the year.
How cold does Plaisance get in winter?
At its coldest, in January, the normal low is −16.5°C.
How much rain and snow does Plaisance get?
A normal year brings 938 mm, snow included as water: June is wettest at 95 mm, February driest at 52 mm.
How long does snow stay on the ground?
Snow covers the ground, 1 cm or more, on about 121 days a year.
Are these figures for Plaisance itself?
No: Plaisance has no normals location, so the figures come from Angers, the nearest with 1991–2020 normals.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Plaisance →
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).