Few Canadian towns have cooler summers than Pohénégamook
Midwinter brings lows of about −15.5°C. The wettest month is October; the driest is February. Winter nights are cold: in January they are colder than in 73% of Canadian towns. Ice scrapers and block heaters earn their keep on roughly 176 days a year at 0°C or below.
Borrowed figures: Pohénégamook has no normals station, so these come from Rivière-du-Loup/St-Antonin, 45 km north-west.
A year in Pohénégamook at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Pohénégamook’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Pohénégamook feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
About 176 frosts and 74 warm days a year
Frost comes from October to May; in January almost every night freezes. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 17 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
Rain and melted snow: about 906 mm a year
About 129 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rivière-du-Loup/St-Antonin publishes no full year of precipitation, so these figures come from La Pocatière, 62 km away.
About 281 cm of snow a year
Expect snow from October to May, with about 66 cm in December, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
ECCC’s Rivière-du-Loup/St-Antonin normals leave snowfall out; the figures here come from Grandes-Bergeronnes, 89 km away.
Heating a home in Pohénégamook
88% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
Behind the figure: the degrees each day’s mean falls under 18°C, summed for the year. In heating terms, homes need more heating than 81% of Canadian towns.
Living with Pohénégamook’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
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 →About 49 days a year bring a wind chill under −20, when bare skin chills fast.
The air feels heavier than 30 on the humidex for about 16 days a year.
What averages leave out, the floods and ice storms, is on Pohénégamook’s hazards page.
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 | 45 km north-west |
| Station altitude | 147 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | La Pocatière, 62 km |
| Snowfall from | Grandes-Bergeronnes, 89 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 | La Pocatière, 62 km |
How Pohénégamook 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 Pohénégamook’s own would show the same figures). The nearest places to Pohénégamook with figures are 18–47 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pohénégamook Rivière-du-Loup/St-Antonin | 22.5°C | −15.5°C | 906 mm |
| Rivière-Bleue 18 km · Edmundston | 25.0°C 2.5°C warmer | −19.1°C 3.6°C colder | 1,012 mm |
| Saint-Pascal 44 km · La Pocatière | 24.2°C 1.7°C warmer | −15.3°C about the same | 906 mm |
Pohénégamook 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 | −7.3°C | −15.5°C | −11.4°C | 70 mm | 51 cm |
| February | −6.1°C | −14.4°C | −10.2°C | 61 mm | 64 cm |
| March | −0.8°C | −9.0°C | −4.9°C | 62 mm | 52 cm |
| April | 6.0°C | −1.9°C | 2.1°C | 69 mm | 21 cm |
| May | 14.2°C | 4.2°C | 9.3°C | 74 mm | 1 cm |
| June | 19.7°C | 9.4°C | 14.5°C | 85 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 22.5°C | 12.8°C | 17.7°C | 81 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 21.8°C | 12.2°C | 17.0°C | 82 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 17.2°C | 7.9°C | 12.5°C | 78 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 9.6°C | 2.2°C | 5.9°C | 99 mm | 5 cm |
| November | 2.8°C | −3.3°C | −0.3°C | 72 mm | 22 cm |
| December | −3.7°C | −10.4°C | −7.1°C | 74 mm | 66 cm |
| Year | 8.0°C | −0.5°C | 3.8°C | 906 mm | 281 cm |
In March, anything from −25.8°C to 21.1°C
Two years in three, February’s average falls within 2.8°C of its normal of −10.2°C; August keeps to within 1.0°C.
Where Pohénégamook’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals at Rivière-du-Loup/St-Antonin, the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals.
- 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 towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ across Canada, each on its nearest normals location, without the city totals or the reserves.
- 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 Pohénégamook’s climate
How warm does Pohénégamook get in summer?
Highs reach 22.5°C on an average July day; no month is warmer.
How cold does Pohénégamook get in winter?
Of all twelve months, January has the coldest nights, about −15.5°C.
How much rain and snow does Pohénégamook get?
Rain and snow, with snow counted as water, total 906 mm a year; October leads with 99 mm and February trails with 61 mm.
Are these figures for Pohénégamook itself?
No: Pohénégamook has no normals location, so the figures come from Rivière-du-Loup/St-Antonin, the nearest with 1991–2020 normals.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Pohénégamook →
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).