More rain and snow fall on Jésuites than on 87% of Canadian towns: 1,173 mm a year
Peak summer warmth arrives in July, with afternoons near 25.1°C. By January nights alone, it runs colder than 73% of Canadian towns. Of all months, July brings the most precipitation and February the least. An umbrella or a shovel earns its place on about 135 days a year with 1 mm or more.
Jésuites has no ECCC normals station of its own: every figure here comes from Ste-Foy (U. Laval), 10 km south-west.
A year in Jésuites at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Jésuites’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Jésuites feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
About 162 frosts and 101 warm days a year
Frost comes from October to May; in January almost every night freezes. Some 21 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 1,173 mm a year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Precipitation: Québec Jean Lesage (Airport), 12 km away (Ste-Foy (U. Laval) records no complete year of it).
299 cm of snow in a typical year
The snow season runs October to April; December brings the most, about 77 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Ste-Foy (U. Laval) publishes no full year of snowfall, so these figures come from Lauzon, 13 km away.
Heating a home in Jésuites
92% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
A day averaging 10 degrees under 18°C adds 10 to the total; warm days add nothing.
Living with Jésuites’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Warm afternoons without cold nights, 17–27°C and 8°C or more, mark Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Count on some 39 days a year when the wind makes it feel below −20.
Humid summer days, the humidex above 30, number about 31 a year.
Thirty-year normals hide the storms and the extremes: the hazards page has Jésuites’s risks.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Ste-Foy (U. Laval)
ECCC builds the Ste-Foy (U. Laval) normals from 2 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 10 km south-west |
| Station altitude | 79 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Québec Jean Lesage (Airport), 12 km |
| Snowfall from | Lauzon, 13 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −33.8°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.3°C |
| Average wind | 9.9 km/h on average, most often from the south-west |
| Next-nearest location | Québec Jean Lesage (Airport), 12 km |
How Jésuites 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 Jésuites’s own would show the same figures).
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jésuites Ste-Foy (U. Laval) | 25.1°C | −15.6°C | 1,173 mm |
| Charlesbourg 1.5 km · Ste-Foy (U. Laval) | 25.1°C about the same | −15.6°C about the same | 1,173 mm |
| Vieux-Moulin 2.9 km · Lauzon | 24.9°C about the same | −16.6°C 1.0°C colder | 1,216 mm |
Jésuites weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −7.1°C | −15.6°C | −11.3°C | 87 mm | 62 cm |
| February | −4.8°C | −14.4°C | −9.6°C | 66 mm | 71 cm |
| March | 0.8°C | −8.4°C | −3.8°C | 78 mm | 51 cm |
| April | 8.4°C | −0.6°C | 4.0°C | 94 mm | 12 cm |
| May | 17.5°C | 6.5°C | 12.0°C | 92 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 22.5°C | 11.7°C | 17.1°C | 115 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.1°C | 14.8°C | 20.0°C | 119 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.2°C | 13.9°C | 19.1°C | 109 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 19.4°C | 9.2°C | 14.3°C | 111 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 11.1°C | 3.2°C | 7.2°C | 116 mm | 2 cm |
| November | 4.0°C | −2.7°C | 0.7°C | 91 mm | 24 cm |
| December | −3.2°C | −10.2°C | −6.7°C | 96 mm | 77 cm |
| Year | 9.8°C | 0.6°C | 5.2°C | 1,173 mm | 299 cm |
A March here can run from −27.7°C to 20.4°C
Bars run from each month’s record low to its record high over 1991–2020; January is the month whose average wanders most from year to year (±2.8°C around −11.3°C), August the one that wanders least (±1.0°C).
Where Jésuites’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals, Ste-Foy (U. Laval): 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: a pool of Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, read alike; whole cities and reserves stay out of it.
- 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 Jésuites’s climate
How warm does Jésuites get in summer?
Highs reach 25.1°C on an average July day; no month is warmer.
How cold does Jésuites get in winter?
Expect nights around −15.6°C in January; no month is colder.
How much rain and snow does Jésuites get?
1,173 mm a year counting snow as water. The wettest month is July (119 mm); the driest, February (66 mm).
Are these figures for Jésuites itself?
Not quite: they come from Ste-Foy (U. Laval), the closest ECCC normals location to Jésuites.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Jésuites →
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).