Few Canadian towns have cooler summers than Pointe-aux-Outardes
January nights here settle around −18.8°C. Frost is common: about 194 nights a year drop below freezing, more than in 88% of Canadian towns. Some 40°C separates winter nights from summer afternoons. Plan for rain or snow on about 124 days a year, the days with 1 mm or more.
These are not Pointe-aux-Outardes’s own readings: ECCC keeps no normals there, so the page uses Baie-Comeau, 13 km east.
A year in Pointe-aux-Outardes at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Pointe-aux-Outardes’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Pointe-aux-Outardes feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
About 194 frosts and 53 warm days a year
The frost season runs September to May, and January freezes nearly every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 38 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
966 mm of precipitation in a typical year
The most falls in July, the least in February.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 323 cm in a normal year
The snow season runs October to May; January brings the most, about 72 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Baie-Comeau publishes no full year of snowfall, so these figures come from Mont-Joli, 57 km away.
Heating a home in Pointe-aux-Outardes
85% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
Each day the mean sits under 18°C adds its shortfall; a year’s total is its heating degree days. Homes here need more heating than 96% of Canadian towns.
Living with Pointe-aux-Outardes’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
About 114 days a year pass without frost, from an average last frost of 29 May to a first of 21 September.
Warm afternoons without cold nights, 17–27°C and 8°C or more, mark Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Roughly 69 days a year feel colder than −20 in the wind.
About 4 days a year turn sultry, with the humidex past 30.
A typical year is calm by definition; Pointe-aux-Outardes’s hazards page covers the exceptions.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Baie-Comeau
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for Baie-Comeau are 2 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 13 km east |
| Station altitude | 22 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Mont-Joli, 57 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −40.1°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 32.0°C |
| Average wind | 14.7 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Mont-Joli, 57 km |
How Pointe-aux-Outardes 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 Pointe-aux-Outardes’s would only repeat its figures. Pointe-aux-Outardes has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 59–66 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pointe-aux-Outardes Baie-Comeau | 21.3°C | −18.8°C | 966 mm |
| Price 59 km · Mont-Joli | 22.9°C 1.6°C warmer | −15.4°C 3.4°C milder | 932 mm |
| Forestville 66 km · Rimouski | 23.5°C 2.2°C warmer | −14.6°C 4.2°C milder | 965 mm |
Pointe-aux-Outardes weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −8.0°C | −18.8°C | −13.4°C | 65 mm | 72 cm |
| February | −6.7°C | −18.1°C | −12.4°C | 61 mm | 66 cm |
| March | −1.6°C | −11.7°C | −6.7°C | 64 mm | 60 cm |
| April | 4.6°C | −3.4°C | 0.6°C | 72 mm | 22 cm |
| May | 12.3°C | 2.0°C | 7.2°C | 76 mm | 2 cm |
| June | 18.3°C | 7.3°C | 12.8°C | 83 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 21.3°C | 10.7°C | 16.0°C | 111 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 20.7°C | 9.9°C | 15.3°C | 82 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 15.8°C | 5.4°C | 10.6°C | 93 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 9.0°C | 0.6°C | 4.8°C | 96 mm | 4 cm |
| November | 2.5°C | −4.9°C | −1.2°C | 87 mm | 31 cm |
| December | −4.0°C | −13.0°C | −8.6°C | 78 mm | 67 cm |
| Year | 7.0°C | −2.8°C | 2.1°C | 966 mm | 323 cm |
January: −40.1°C at its coldest, 11.4°C at its warmest
The month to count on least is February: one year in three its average strays more than 2.9°C from −12.4°C. July moves least, typically by 0.9°C.
Where Pointe-aux-Outardes’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals, Baie-Comeau: the nearest of its locations with every month’s temperatures.
- Other locations: ECCC blanks a month that fails its completeness rule, so the precipitation or snowfall here comes from the next location with all twelve months.
- Comparisons: Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of at least 2,500, each placed by its nearest location (city totals and reserves excluded).
- 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 Pointe-aux-Outardes’s climate
How warm does Pointe-aux-Outardes get in summer?
A normal July afternoon tops out at about 21.3°C, the year’s high point.
How cold does Pointe-aux-Outardes get in winter?
In January, the coldest month, the typical low is −18.8°C.
How much rain and snow does Pointe-aux-Outardes get?
Measured as water, a year brings 966 mm: 111 mm in July, the wettest month, and 61 mm in February, the driest.
Are these figures for Pointe-aux-Outardes itself?
Not exactly. Pointe-aux-Outardes lacks a normals station, so Baie-Comeau supplies the figures.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Pointe-aux-Outardes →
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