Photo: Gordalmighty · CC BY-SA 3.0Few Canadian towns get more snow than Saint-Aubert: about 349 cm a year
Midsummer highs settle at about 24.2°C. Some 40°C separates winter nights from summer afternoons. Its January nights bite harder than in 72% of Canadian towns. Plan for rain or snow on about 129 days a year, the days with 1 mm or more.
The nearest ECCC normals location to Saint-Aubert is La Pocatière, 23 km north-east, and every figure on this page is its.
A year in Saint-Aubert at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Saint-Aubert’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Saint-Aubert feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on 170 days, 20°C on 92
The frost season runs October to May, and January freezes nearly every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 18 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 906 mm a year
October is the wettest month and February the driest.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
About 349 cm of snow a year
The snow season runs October to May; December brings the most, about 83 cm. 9th snowiest of 494 towns of 2,500+ in Quebec.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
La Pocatière publishes no full year of snowfall, so these figures come from Ste Lucie, 51 km away.
Heating a home in Saint-Aubert
89% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
One degree below 18°C for one day makes one heating degree day; the year’s days are added together. In heating terms, homes need more heating than 63% of Canadian towns.
Living with Saint-Aubert’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 →About 52 days a year bring a wind chill under −20, when bare skin chills fast.
Plan shade and water for about 31 days a year above 30 on the humidex.
Ice storms, floods and heat waves are risks, not averages: they are on Saint-Aubert’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: La Pocatière
La Pocatière is a composite: ECCC joins 2 stations’ readings to make its 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 23 km north-east |
| Station altitude | 31 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Ste Lucie, 51 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 | Cap-Tourmente, 46 km |
How Saint-Aubert 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 Saint-Aubert whose figures come from another normals location. Distances here run 15–38 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Saint-Aubert.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Aubert La Pocatière | 24.2°C | −15.3°C | 906 mm |
| L'Islet 15 km · Cap-Tourmente | 25.0°C 0.8°C warmer | −14.8°C 0.5°C milder | 906 mm |
| Saint-Pamphile 38 km · Ste Lucie | 23.9°C about the same | −19.6°C 4.3°C colder | 906 mm |
Saint-Aubert weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −6.5°C | −15.3°C | −10.9°C | 70 mm | 62 cm |
| February | −5.0°C | −14.3°C | −9.6°C | 61 mm | 71 cm |
| March | 0.1°C | −8.8°C | −4.4°C | 62 mm | 61 cm |
| April | 7.6°C | −1.5°C | 3.0°C | 69 mm | 27 cm |
| May | 16.2°C | 4.7°C | 10.4°C | 74 mm | 2 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 | under 1 cm |
| October | 11.1°C | 2.7°C | 7.0°C | 99 mm | 11 cm |
| November | 4.3°C | −2.7°C | 0.8°C | 72 mm | 30 cm |
| December | −2.6°C | −10.1°C | −6.4°C | 74 mm | 83 cm |
| Year | 9.5°C | −0.1°C | 4.7°C | 906 mm | 349 cm |
January varies most from one year to the next (2.6°C), June least
The thirty-year records stretch furthest in March: a low of −27.2°C in 2007 and a high of 21.8°C in 2012.
Where Saint-Aubert’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: 1991–2020 normals for La Pocatière from ECCC’s climate data site, the nearest location with every month of temperature.
- Other locations: precipitation and snowfall come from the nearest location that publishes all twelve months of them, as named above.
- 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, not in ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals, and the effect of the town’s height, for which there is no figure.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Saint-Aubert’s climate
How warm does Saint-Aubert get in summer?
A normal July afternoon tops out at about 24.2°C, the year’s high point.
How cold does Saint-Aubert get in winter?
Of all twelve months, January has the coldest nights, about −15.3°C.
How much rain and snow does Saint-Aubert get?
The year adds up to 906 mm. October is the peak month (99 mm) and February the low one (61 mm).
Are these figures for Saint-Aubert itself?
No, the station behind them is La Pocatière, beyond Saint-Aubert’s boundary.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Saint-Aubert →
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).