Precipitation in Vieux-Bourg tops that of 90% of Canadian towns: 1,216 mm a year
Nights in January average −16.6°C. July is the wettest month, March the driest. Winter nights are cold: in January they are colder than in 79% of Canadian towns. About 142 days a year bring 1 mm of precipitation or more.
Borrowed figures: Vieux-Bourg has no normals station, so these come from Lauzon, 8.5 km south-east.
A year in Vieux-Bourg at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Vieux-Bourg’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Vieux-Bourg feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on 179 days, 20°C on 95
The frost season runs September to May, and January freezes nearly every night. Some 25 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
About 1,216 mm of rain and snow a year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
About 299 cm of snow a 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 Vieux-Bourg
90% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Think of it as a year’s worth of daily shortfalls below 18°C, added up. By this count, homes here need more heating than 71% of Canadian towns.
Living with Vieux-Bourg’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
The comfortable months for a day outside, highs of 17–27°C and nights of 8°C or more: Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →What averages leave out, the floods and ice storms, is on Vieux-Bourg’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 | 8.5 km south-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), 14 km |
How Vieux-Bourg 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
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Vieux-Bourg’s would only repeat its figures. Vieux-Bourg has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 9–14 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vieux-Bourg Lauzon | 24.9°C | −16.6°C | 1,216 mm |
| Québec 8.7 km · Ste-Foy (U. Laval) | 25.1°C about the same | −15.6°C 1.0°C milder | 1,173 mm |
| Lac-Beauport 12 km · Québec Jean Lesage (Airport) | 25.0°C about the same | −16.7°C about the same | 1,173 mm |
Vieux-Bourg 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 | −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 |
From year to year, January moves by 3.1°C, more than any month, and August least
Each bar spans a month’s coldest and warmest readings over thirty years; January’s run from −39.0°C in 1994 to 12.5°C in 1996.
Where Vieux-Bourg’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals at Lauzon, the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals.
- Comparisons: every Canadian town and neighbourhood of 2,500 or more, each read from its own nearest location; city totals and reserves are left out.
- Not on this page: sunshine, absent from every 1991–2020 location, and an altitude correction, for want of the town’s own elevation.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Vieux-Bourg’s climate
How warm does Vieux-Bourg get in summer?
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 24.9°C.
How cold does Vieux-Bourg get in winter?
Of all twelve months, January has the coldest nights, about −16.6°C.
How much rain and snow does Vieux-Bourg get?
Over twelve months, rain and melted snow come to 1,216 mm; the range runs from 78 mm in March to 129 mm in July.
How long does snow stay on the ground?
Snow lies on the ground for about 143 days in a normal year.
Are these figures for Vieux-Bourg itself?
Only indirectly: the readings are made at Lauzon, outside Vieux-Bourg.
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