Photo: Nicolas Raymond from Bethesda, Maryland, USA · CC BY 2.0Rawdon is wetter than 82% of Canadian towns: 1,109 mm of rain and snow a year
Midwinter brings lows of about −16.0°C. Rain or snow is most frequent in August and least in February. Its January nights bite harder than in 75% of Canadian towns. Ice scrapers and block heaters earn their keep on roughly 161 days a year at 0°C or below.
Borrowed figures: Rawdon has no normals station, so these come from L'Assomption, 35 km south-east.
A year in Rawdon at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Rawdon’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Rawdon feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
About 161 frosts and 119 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 24 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
Rain and melted snow: about 1,109 mm a year
About 145 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Precipitation and snowfall: Fleury, 63 km away (L'Assomption records no complete year of either).
Snowfall: about 202 cm in a normal year
The snow season runs October to April; December brings the most, about 49 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Heating a home in Rawdon
93% 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.
Living with Rawdon’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Afternoons of 17–27°C and nights of at least 8°C arrive in Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →A wind chill below −20 is part of about 44 days a year here.
The air feels heavier than 30 on the humidex for about 49 days a year.
For blizzards, floods and wildfire, turn to Rawdon’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: L'Assomption
The page’s figures are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for L'Assomption, one of its 450 normals locations.
| Distance from the town | 35 km south-east |
| Station altitude | 21 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Fleury, 63 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −40.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 36.2°C |
| Average wind | 10.0 km/h on average, most often from the south-west |
| Next-nearest location | Fleury, 63 km |
How Rawdon 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
Places around Rawdon whose figures come from another normals location. Rawdon has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 22–27 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rawdon L'Assomption | 26.6°C | −16.0°C | 1,109 mm |
| Entrelacs 22 km · St-Jovite | 25.3°C 1.3°C cooler | −18.3°C 2.3°C colder | 1,178 mm |
| Saint-Hippolyte 27 km · Lachute | 26.5°C about the same | −14.7°C 1.3°C milder | 1,178 mm |
Rawdon 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 | −5.9°C | −16.0°C | −10.9°C | 81 mm | 45 cm |
| February | −4.0°C | −14.8°C | −9.4°C | 61 mm | 43 cm |
| March | 1.8°C | −8.3°C | −3.2°C | 71 mm | 38 cm |
| April | 10.8°C | 0.1°C | 5.5°C | 96 mm | 13 cm |
| May | 19.2°C | 7.2°C | 13.2°C | 98 mm | under 1 cm |
| June | 24.3°C | 12.4°C | 18.4°C | 102 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 26.6°C | 14.8°C | 20.7°C | 106 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.5°C | 13.7°C | 19.6°C | 114 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 21.1°C | 9.2°C | 15.2°C | 97 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 13.0°C | 3.2°C | 8.1°C | 108 mm | 2 cm |
| November | 5.4°C | −2.7°C | 1.3°C | 90 mm | 12 cm |
| December | −1.9°C | −10.2°C | −6.1°C | 85 mm | 49 cm |
| Year | 11.3°C | 0.7°C | 6.0°C | 1,109 mm | 202 cm |
The month with the widest range: March, −29.5°C to 26.0°C
Two years in three, January’s average falls within 3.1°C of its normal of −10.9°C; June keeps to within 1.0°C.
Where Rawdon’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s normals for L'Assomption, 1991–2020, chosen as the nearest location with a full temperature record.
- 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: a sunshine figure (ECCC published none for 1991–2020) and any lapse-rate correction for height, as the town has no elevation here.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Rawdon’s climate
How warm does Rawdon get in summer?
Expect highs near 26.6°C in July, the hottest month on average.
How cold does Rawdon get in winter?
Lows sink to −16.0°C on an average January night.
How much rain and snow does Rawdon get?
Count on roughly 1,109 mm a year, heaviest in August (114 mm) and lightest in February (61 mm).
Are these figures for Rawdon itself?
Not exactly. Rawdon lacks a normals station, so L'Assomption supplies the figures.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Rawdon →
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).