Wet weather: 1,173 mm of rain and snow a year falls on Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, more than on 87% of Canadian towns
Deep winter brings January lows near −16.7°C. The gap between a January night and a July afternoon is 42°C. Winter nights are cold: in January they are colder than in 80% of Canadian towns. Windshields need scraping on about 170 mornings a year, the days the air reaches 0°C or below.
These are not Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures’s own readings: ECCC keeps no normals there, so the page uses Québec Jean Lesage (Airport), 7.6 km north-east.
A year in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
About 170 frosts and 100 warm days a year
The frost season runs October to May, and January freezes nearly every night. On about 27 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
1,173 mm of precipitation in a typical year
July is the wettest month and February the driest. About 135 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
331 cm of snow in a typical year
Expect snow from October to April, with about 89 cm in December, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snowfall: Beauséjour, 22 km away (Québec Jean Lesage (Airport) records no complete year of it).
Heating a home in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures
91% 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. That means homes here need more heating than 64% of Canadian towns.
Living with Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Between the last frost, near 10 May, and the first, near 5 October, lie about 148 frost-free days.
Highs of 17–27°C with nights of 8°C or more come in Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Frostbite weather, a wind chill under −20, turns up on about 56 days a year.
About 34 days a year feel above 30 on the humidex.
A normal year has no blizzard, flood or heat wave in it; Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures’s hazards page looks at those.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Québec Jean Lesage (Airport)
ECCC builds the Québec Jean Lesage (Airport) normals from 2 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 7.6 km north-east |
| Station altitude | 74 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Beauséjour, 22 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −36.7°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 34.2°C |
| Average wind | 13.2 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Ste-Foy (U. Laval), 9.8 km |
How Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures 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
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures’s own would show the same figures).
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures Québec Jean Lesage (Airport) | 25.0°C | −16.7°C | 1,173 mm |
| Cap-Rouge 6.5 km · Ste-Foy (U. Laval) | 25.1°C about the same | −15.6°C 1.1°C milder | 1,173 mm |
| L'Aéroport 6.5 km · Québec Jean Lesage (Airport) | 25.0°C about the same | −16.7°C about the same | 1,173 mm |
Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −7.1°C | −16.7°C | −11.9°C | 87 mm | 71 cm |
| February | −5.0°C | −15.7°C | −10.4°C | 66 mm | 71 cm |
| March | 0.4°C | −9.3°C | −4.5°C | 78 mm | 55 cm |
| April | 8.3°C | −1.2°C | 3.5°C | 94 mm | 16 cm |
| May | 17.5°C | 5.6°C | 11.6°C | 92 mm | under 1 cm |
| June | 22.5°C | 10.8°C | 16.7°C | 115 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.0°C | 13.9°C | 19.5°C | 119 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.0°C | 12.8°C | 18.4°C | 109 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 19.1°C | 8.3°C | 13.7°C | 111 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 11.3°C | 2.4°C | 6.8°C | 116 mm | 4 cm |
| November | 3.6°C | −3.8°C | −0.1°C | 91 mm | 25 cm |
| December | −3.3°C | −11.4°C | −7.3°C | 96 mm | 89 cm |
| Year | 9.7°C | −0.4°C | 4.7°C | 1,173 mm | 331 cm |
January varies most from one year to the next (2.9°C), August least
Records from 1991 to 2020: no month spans more than January, between −36.7°C (2015) and 17.7°C (1996).
Where Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: 1991–2020 normals for Québec Jean Lesage (Airport) 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: 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, 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-Augustin-de-Desmaures’s climate
How warm does Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures get in summer?
Peak warmth comes in July, at about 25.0°C by mid-afternoon.
How cold does Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures get in winter?
The year’s coldest nights belong to January, at about −16.7°C.
How much rain and snow does Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures get?
Around 1,173 mm a year in all, from 119 mm in July down to 66 mm in February.
Are these figures for Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures itself?
Not exactly. Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures lacks a normals station, so Québec Jean Lesage (Airport) supplies the figures.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures →
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