Photo: Harfang · CC BY-SA 3.0Ragueneau sits near the bottom of Canadian towns for July heat
The coldest hours of a January night bottom out at −18.8°C on average. Temperatures cover 40°C across the year, low to high. Frost is common: about 194 nights a year drop below freezing, more than in 88% of Canadian towns. Warm coats and heating bills mark the months from October to May, when means dip under 10°C.
These are not Ragueneau’s own readings: ECCC keeps no normals there, so the page uses Baie-Comeau, 21 km east.
A year in Ragueneau at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Ragueneau’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Ragueneau 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
Frost comes from September to May; in January almost every night freezes. On about 38 nights a year the air falls below −20°C.
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
July is the wettest month and February the driest. On about 124 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
About 323 cm of snow a year
Snow falls from October to May, most of all in January (about 72 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
ECCC’s Baie-Comeau normals leave snowfall out; the figures here come from Mont-Joli, 59 km away.
Heating a home in Ragueneau
85% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
Measured against 18°C: each day’s shortfall in mean temperature, added over twelve months. A house here needs more heating than 96% of Canadian towns.
Living with Ragueneau’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Frost usually lets go around 29 May and returns near 21 September, about 114 days apart.
Mild days and mild nights together (17–27°C by day, 8°C or more at night) belong to Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Winter brings about 69 days with a wind chill below −20.
Summer brings about 4 days when the humidex passes 30.
Extremes don’t show in averages: floods, wildfire smoke and ice storms are on Ragueneau’s hazards page.
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 | 21 km east |
| Station altitude | 22 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Mont-Joli, 59 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, 59 km |
How Ragueneau compares
Placed among 2,611 Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+, each on its nearest normals location; each dot is another location used in Quebec.
Nearby towns’ climate
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Ragueneau’s would only repeat its figures. Ragueneau has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 59–67 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ragueneau Baie-Comeau | 21.3°C | −18.8°C | 966 mm |
| Forestville 59 km · Rimouski | 23.5°C 2.2°C warmer | −14.6°C 4.2°C milder | 965 mm |
| Mont-Joli 61 km · Mont-Joli | 22.9°C 1.6°C warmer | −15.4°C 3.4°C milder | 932 mm |
Ragueneau 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 |
A February here can run warm or cold, its average moving by about 2.9°C; the steadiest month is July
Over 1991–2020, January saw both −40.1°C (1991) and 11.4°C (1996), the widest span of any month.
Where Ragueneau’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: 1991–2020 normals for Baie-Comeau from ECCC’s climate data site, the nearest location with every month of temperature.
- 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: 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 Ragueneau’s climate
How warm does Ragueneau get in summer?
Expect highs near 21.3°C in July, the hottest month on average.
How cold does Ragueneau get in winter?
Overnight lows average −18.8°C in January, the coldest month.
How much rain and snow does Ragueneau get?
The year adds up to 966 mm. July is the peak month (111 mm) and February the low one (61 mm).
Are these figures for Ragueneau itself?
They come from Baie-Comeau, which ECCC uses as the nearest normals location for Ragueneau.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Ragueneau →
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).