Precipitation in Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare tops that of 82% of Canadian towns: 1,109 mm a year
On a normal January night the air cools to about −16.0°C. Winter nights are cold: in January they are colder than in 75% of Canadian towns. The gap between a January night and a July afternoon is 43°C. Frost comes on about 161 days a year, so leave time to clear the car.
Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare has no ECCC normals station of its own: every figure here comes from L'Assomption, 31 km south.
A year in Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare 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
Frost comes from October to May; in January almost every night freezes. Some 24 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
Rain and melted snow: about 1,109 mm a year
The most falls in August, the least in February. Some 145 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
L'Assomption publishes no full year of precipitation or snowfall, so these figures, and the snow below, come from Fleury, 52 km away.
About 202 cm of snow a year
Snow falls from October to April, most of all in December (about 49 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Heating a home in Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare
93% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Warm days count for nothing; each colder day adds how far its mean sits below 18°C.
Living with Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
The outdoor season by the averages is Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep, with highs of 17–27°C and lows of 8°C or more.
Parks & trails →Plan for about 44 days a year with a wind chill below −20.
The air feels heavier than 30 on the humidex for about 49 days a year.
What averages leave out, the floods and ice storms, is on Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare’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 | 31 km south |
| Station altitude | 21 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Fleury, 52 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, 52 km |
How Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare 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
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare’s own would show the same figures). Distances here run 27–33 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare L'Assomption | 26.6°C | −16.0°C | 1,109 mm |
| Berthierville 27 km · Fleury | 26.0°C 0.6°C cooler | −14.8°C 1.2°C milder | 1,109 mm |
| Saint-Barthélemy 33 km · Nicolet | 25.7°C 0.9°C cooler | −16.4°C about the same | 948 mm |
Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and 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 |
In March, anything from −29.5°C to 26.0°C
January is the least predictable month: about two years in three its average lands within 3.1°C of the normal, −10.9°C. June is the steadiest, within 1.0°C.
Where Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals for L'Assomption, the nearest location with a full year of temperatures.
- 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: all Canadian places of 2,500 or more except city totals and reserves, each read the same way.
- Not on this page: sunshine, which none of ECCC’s 450 locations publishes for 1991–2020, and the town’s own height above sea level, so no figure is adjusted for altitude.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare’s climate
How warm does Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare get in summer?
A normal July afternoon tops out at about 26.6°C, the year’s high point.
How cold does Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare get in winter?
Deep winter means January, when nights average −16.0°C.
How much rain and snow does Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare get?
Count on roughly 1,109 mm a year, heaviest in August (114 mm) and lightest in February (61 mm).
Are these figures for Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare itself?
Not as such: L'Assomption is the nearest normals location, and Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare has none.
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