Wet weather: 1,173 mm of rain and snow a year falls on Val-Bélair, more than on 87% of Canadian towns
On a normal January night the air cools to about −16.7°C. The year swings widely: the coldest month’s nights and the warmest month’s afternoons are 42°C apart. Winter nights are cold: in January they are colder than in 80% of Canadian towns. The furnace earns its keep from October to April, the months that average under 10°C.
Figures: ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Québec Jean Lesage (Airport) (6.8 km south-east).
A year in Val-Bélair at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Val-Bélair’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Val-Bélair feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
About 170 frosts and 100 warm days a year
The frost season runs October to May, and January freezes nearly every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 27 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
1,173 mm of precipitation in a typical year
July is the wettest month and February the driest. Some 135 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 299 cm in a normal year
The snow season runs October to April; December brings the most, about 77 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
ECCC’s Québec Jean Lesage (Airport) normals leave snowfall out; the figures here come from Lauzon, 25 km away.
Heating a home in Val-Bélair
91% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
The total grows by a degree for every degree a day’s mean sits under 18°C. A house here needs more heating than 64% of Canadian towns.
Living with Val-Bélair’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
On average the last spring frost comes around 10 May and the first autumn frost around 5 October: about 148 frost-free days between.
Highs of 17–27°C with nights of 8°C or more come in Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Winter brings about 56 days with a wind chill below −20.
About 34 days a year turn sultry, with the humidex past 30.
A normal year has no blizzard, flood or heat wave in it; Val-Bélair’s hazards page looks at those.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Québec Jean Lesage (Airport)
ECCC builds the Québec Jean Lesage (Airport) normals from 2 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 6.8 km south-east |
| Station altitude | 74 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Lauzon, 25 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −36.7°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 34.2°C |
| Average wind | 13.2 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Ste-Foy (U. Laval), 11 km |
How Val-Bélair 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 Val-Bélair’s own would show the same figures). The nearest places to Val-Bélair with figures are 10–24 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Val-Bélair Québec Jean Lesage (Airport) | 25.0°C | −16.7°C | 1,173 mm |
| Québec 10 km · Ste-Foy (U. Laval) | 25.1°C about the same | −15.6°C 1.1°C milder | 1,173 mm |
| Boischatel 22 km · Lauzon | 24.9°C about the same | −16.6°C about the same | 1,216 mm |
Val-Bélair 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 | −7.1°C | −16.7°C | −11.9°C | 87 mm | 62 cm |
| February | −5.0°C | −15.7°C | −10.4°C | 66 mm | 71 cm |
| March | 0.4°C | −9.3°C | −4.5°C | 78 mm | 51 cm |
| April | 8.3°C | −1.2°C | 3.5°C | 94 mm | 12 cm |
| May | 17.5°C | 5.6°C | 11.6°C | 92 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 22.5°C | 10.8°C | 16.7°C | 115 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.0°C | 13.9°C | 19.5°C | 119 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.0°C | 12.8°C | 18.4°C | 109 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 19.1°C | 8.3°C | 13.7°C | 111 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 11.3°C | 2.4°C | 6.8°C | 116 mm | 2 cm |
| November | 3.6°C | −3.8°C | −0.1°C | 91 mm | 24 cm |
| December | −3.3°C | −11.4°C | −7.3°C | 96 mm | 77 cm |
| Year | 9.7°C | −0.4°C | 4.7°C | 1,173 mm | 299 cm |
January has run from −36.7°C to 17.7°C in thirty years
From one year to the next, January’s average typically shifts by 2.9°C around its normal of −11.9°C, the widest of any month, while August’s shifts by 0.9°C.
Where Val-Bélair’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals, Québec Jean Lesage (Airport), 1991–2020.
- 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: the 2,500-plus towns and neighbourhoods of Canada, each read from its closest normals location; whole cities and reserves aren’t counted.
- 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 Val-Bélair’s climate
How warm does Val-Bélair get in summer?
In July, the warmest month, the typical high is 25.0°C.
How cold does Val-Bélair get in winter?
The coldest nights come in January, averaging −16.7°C.
How much rain and snow does Val-Bélair get?
Measured as water, a year brings 1,173 mm: 119 mm in July, the wettest month, and 66 mm in February, the driest.
Are these figures for Val-Bélair itself?
Nearly: Québec Jean Lesage (Airport), the location behind them, sits just beyond Val-Bélair’s boundary.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Val-Bélair →
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).