Maizerets is wetter than 90% of Canadian towns: 1,216 mm of rain and snow a year
On a normal January night the air cools to about −16.6°C. Winter nights are cold: in January they are colder than in 79% of Canadian towns. The year swings widely: the coldest month’s nights and the warmest month’s afternoons are 42°C apart. The heating season runs October to April: each of those months averages under 10°C.
Borrowed figures: Maizerets has no normals station, so these come from Lauzon, 9.7 km east.
A year in Maizerets at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Maizerets’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Maizerets feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
Frost on 179 days, 20°C on 95
The frost season runs September to May, and January freezes nearly every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 25 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
1,216 mm of precipitation in a typical year
The most falls in July, the least in March. Some 142 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 299 cm in a normal year
Expect snow from October to April, with about 77 cm in December, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Maizerets
90% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Measured against 18°C: each day’s shortfall in mean temperature, added over twelve months. A house here needs more heating than 71% of Canadian towns.
Living with Maizerets’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 →Extremes don’t show in averages: floods, wildfire smoke and ice storms are on Maizerets’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Lauzon
The page’s figures are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Lauzon, one of its 450 normals locations.
| Distance from the town | 9.7 km east |
| Station altitude | 69 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −39.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.0°C |
| Next-nearest location | Ste-Foy (U. Laval), 9.9 km |
How Maizerets compares
Compared with 2,611 towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more across Canada; the dots mark the other normals locations in Quebec.
Nearby towns’ climate
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Maizerets’s own would show the same figures).
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maizerets Lauzon | 24.9°C | −16.6°C | 1,216 mm |
| Vieux-Limoilou 1.6 km · Ste-Foy (U. Laval) | 25.1°C about the same | −15.6°C 1.0°C milder | 1,216 mm |
| Vieux-Moulin 1.9 km · Lauzon | 24.9°C about the same | −16.6°C about the same | 1,216 mm |
Maizerets 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 | −7.1°C | −16.6°C | −12.1°C | 80 mm | 62 cm |
| February | −5.0°C | −15.4°C | −10.1°C | 80 mm | 71 cm |
| March | 0.3°C | −9.2°C | −4.6°C | 78 mm | 51 cm |
| April | 7.8°C | −1.9°C | 3.3°C | 95 mm | 12 cm |
| May | 17.1°C | 5.3°C | 11.2°C | 98 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 22.3°C | 10.6°C | 16.6°C | 120 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 24.9°C | 13.7°C | 19.2°C | 129 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 23.8°C | 12.7°C | 18.2°C | 117 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 19.0°C | 8.2°C | 13.7°C | 123 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 11.0°C | 2.4°C | 6.8°C | 112 mm | 2 cm |
| November | 3.9°C | −3.6°C | 0.4°C | 84 mm | 24 cm |
| December | −3.4°C | −11.5°C | −7.8°C | 101 mm | 77 cm |
| Year | 9.6°C | −0.4°C | 4.6°C | 1,216 mm | 299 cm |
In January, anything from −39.0°C to 12.5°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 (±3.1°C around −12.1°C), August the one that wanders least (±0.8°C).
Where Maizerets’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the Canadian Climate Normals, 1991–2020, at Lauzon (the closest location with all twelve months of temperatures).
- Comparisons: all Canadian places of 2,500 or more except city totals and reserves, each read the same way.
- Not on this page: sunshine (no 1991–2020 normals exist for it) and any altitude adjustment, since there is no elevation for the town itself.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Maizerets’s climate
How warm does Maizerets get in summer?
Expect highs near 24.9°C in July, the hottest month on average.
How cold does Maizerets get in winter?
A typical January night falls to −16.6°C, the year’s low point.
How much rain and snow does Maizerets get?
Count on roughly 1,216 mm a year, heaviest in July (129 mm) and lightest in March (78 mm).
How long does snow stay on the ground?
Around 143 days a year see 1 cm of snow or more lying.
Are these figures for Maizerets itself?
They come from Lauzon, which ECCC uses as the nearest normals location for Maizerets.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Maizerets →
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).