Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainMore rain and snow fall on Saint-Hugues than on 82% of Canadian towns: 1,109 mm a year
January nights here settle around −14.8°C. Winter nights are cold: in January they are colder than in 71% of Canadian towns. August is the wettest month, February the driest. An umbrella or a shovel earns its place on about 145 days a year with 1 mm or more.
Borrowed figures: Saint-Hugues has no normals station, so these come from Fleury, 11 km west.
A year in Saint-Hugues at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Saint-Hugues’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Saint-Hugues feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
161 frost days and 115 days above 20°C a year
Frost comes from September to May; in January almost every night freezes. On about 20 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
1,109 mm of precipitation in a typical year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
About 202 cm of snow a year
Expect snow from October to April, with about 49 cm in December, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Saint-Hugues
92% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Every day colder than 18°C on average adds its gap in degrees to the year’s heating total.
Living with Saint-Hugues’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Count on about 136 frost-free days: the last frost averages 12 May, the first 27 September.
Warm afternoons without cold nights, 17–27°C and 8°C or more, mark Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →A normal year has no blizzard, flood or heat wave in it; Saint-Hugues’s hazards page looks at those.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Fleury
The page’s figures are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Fleury, one of its 450 normals locations.
| Distance from the town | 11 km west |
| Station altitude | 31 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −39.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.1°C |
| Next-nearest location | Drummondville, 31 km |
How Saint-Hugues 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-Hugues’s would only repeat its figures. No closer places have figures: these lie 14–25 km from Saint-Hugues.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Hugues Fleury | 26.0°C | −14.8°C | 1,109 mm |
| Saint-Eugène 14 km · Drummondville | 26.0°C about the same | −14.2°C 0.6°C milder | 1,070 mm |
| Saint-Dominique 24 km · Granby | 25.6°C about the same | −13.4°C 1.4°C milder | 1,226 mm |
Saint-Hugues 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 | −5.8°C | −14.8°C | −10.5°C | 81 mm | 45 cm |
| February | −3.8°C | −13.6°C | −8.6°C | 61 mm | 43 cm |
| March | 1.8°C | −7.3°C | −2.7°C | 71 mm | 38 cm |
| April | 10.5°C | 0.6°C | 5.8°C | 96 mm | 13 cm |
| May | 19.1°C | 7.4°C | 13.2°C | 98 mm | under 1 cm |
| June | 23.9°C | 12.7°C | 18.4°C | 102 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 26.0°C | 14.9°C | 20.2°C | 106 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.0°C | 13.7°C | 19.3°C | 114 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.7°C | 9.4°C | 15.1°C | 97 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 13.0°C | 3.6°C | 8.4°C | 108 mm | 2 cm |
| November | 5.5°C | −2.0°C | 1.9°C | 90 mm | 12 cm |
| December | −2.0°C | −9.3°C | −5.9°C | 85 mm | 49 cm |
| Year | 11.2°C | 1.3°C | 6.2°C | 1,109 mm | 202 cm |
In March, anything from −31.0°C to 25.5°C
January is the least predictable month: about two years in three its average lands within 3.1°C of the normal, −10.5°C. August is the steadiest, within 0.9°C.
Where Saint-Hugues’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals, Fleury: the nearest of its locations with every month’s temperatures.
- Comparisons: every place of 2,500+ in Canada but the city hubs and the reserves, each on its nearest ECCC location.
- 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-Hugues’s climate
How warm does Saint-Hugues get in summer?
At its warmest, in July, the normal high is 26.0°C.
How cold does Saint-Hugues get in winter?
The year’s coldest nights belong to January, at about −14.8°C.
How much rain and snow does Saint-Hugues get?
Count on roughly 1,109 mm a year, heaviest in August (114 mm) and lightest in February (61 mm).
How long does snow stay on the ground?
About 106 days a year have 1 cm of snow or more on the ground.
Are these figures for Saint-Hugues itself?
No, the station behind them is Fleury, beyond Saint-Hugues’s boundary.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Saint-Hugues →
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).