Photo: Dr Wilson · CC BY 3.0Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs gets more snow than 91% of Canadian towns: about 281 cm a year
In January the night’s low is typically −15.3°C. Winter nights are cold: in January they are colder than in 72% of Canadian towns. The gap between a January night and a July afternoon is 40°C. Plan for rain or snow on about 129 days a year, the days with 1 mm or more.
No ECCC station in Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs has 1991–2020 normals; the page reads La Pocatière, 43 km south-east, instead.
A year in Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
About 170 frosts and 92 warm days a year
From October to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. On about 18 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
906 mm of precipitation in a typical year
October is the wettest month and February the driest.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
About 281 cm of snow a year
Expect snow from October to May, with about 66 cm in December, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snowfall: Grandes-Bergeronnes, 87 km away (La Pocatière records no complete year of it).
Heating a home in Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs
89% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
ECCC sums, over the year, how many degrees each day’s average falls short of 18°C. Over a year, a home here needs more heating than 63% of Canadian towns.
Living with Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
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 →Roughly 52 days a year feel colder than −20 in the wind.
About 31 days a year feel above 30 on the humidex.
Ice storms, floods and heat waves are risks, not averages: they are on Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: La Pocatière
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for La Pocatière are 2 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 43 km south-east |
| Station altitude | 31 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Grandes-Bergeronnes, 87 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −33.5°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.7°C |
| Average wind | 14.8 km/h on average, most often from the south-west |
| Next-nearest location | Rivière-du-Loup/St-Antonin, 59 km |
How Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs 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
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs’s would only repeat its figures. Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 36–58 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs La Pocatière | 24.2°C | −15.3°C | 906 mm |
| Saint-Siméon 36 km · Rivière-du-Loup/St-Antonin | 22.5°C 1.7°C cooler | −15.5°C about the same | 1,124 mm |
| Petite-Rivière-Saint-François 45 km · Cap-Tourmente | 25.0°C 0.8°C warmer | −14.8°C 0.5°C milder | 906 mm |
| L'Anse-Saint-Jean 58 km · Grandes-Bergeronnes | 22.3°C 1.9°C cooler | −16.6°C 1.3°C colder | 1,124 mm |
Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs 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 | −6.5°C | −15.3°C | −10.9°C | 70 mm | 51 cm |
| February | −5.0°C | −14.3°C | −9.6°C | 61 mm | 64 cm |
| March | 0.1°C | −8.8°C | −4.4°C | 62 mm | 52 cm |
| April | 7.6°C | −1.5°C | 3.0°C | 69 mm | 21 cm |
| May | 16.2°C | 4.7°C | 10.4°C | 74 mm | 1 cm |
| June | 21.6°C | 10.0°C | 15.8°C | 85 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 24.2°C | 13.2°C | 18.7°C | 81 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 23.6°C | 12.4°C | 18.0°C | 82 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 18.9°C | 8.3°C | 13.6°C | 78 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 11.1°C | 2.7°C | 7.0°C | 99 mm | 5 cm |
| November | 4.3°C | −2.7°C | 0.8°C | 72 mm | 22 cm |
| December | −2.6°C | −10.1°C | −6.4°C | 74 mm | 66 cm |
| Year | 9.5°C | −0.1°C | 4.7°C | 906 mm | 281 cm |
March: −27.2°C at its coldest, 21.8°C at its warmest
From one year to the next, January’s average typically shifts by 2.6°C around its normal of −10.9°C, the widest of any month, while June’s shifts by 1.1°C.
Where Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the Canadian Climate Normals, 1991–2020, at La Pocatière (the closest location with all twelve months of temperatures).
- Other locations: where a location publishes no full year of precipitation or snowfall, the nearest one that does supplies it, named beside those figures.
- Comparisons: a pool of Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, read alike; whole cities and reserves stay out of it.
- 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 Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs’s climate
How warm does Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs get in summer?
On a normal day in July the thermometer climbs to 24.2°C, the warmest of the year.
How cold does Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs get in winter?
January nights average −15.3°C, the coldest of the year.
How much rain and snow does Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs get?
Around 906 mm a year in all, from 99 mm in October down to 61 mm in February.
Are these figures for Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs itself?
The figures are ECCC’s for La Pocatière; Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs has no normals station.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs →
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