Photo: Bertrand Latour - Groupe Facebook : Je viens de Saint-Joseph · Public domainWet weather: 1,109 mm of rain and snow a year falls on Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel, more than on 82% of Canadian towns
Expect July afternoons of about 26.0°C. The year swings widely: the coldest month’s nights and the warmest month’s afternoons are 41°C apart. In January, nights here are colder than in 71% of Canadian towns. Windshields need scraping on about 161 mornings a year, the days the air reaches 0°C or below.
Borrowed figures: Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel has no normals station, so these come from Fleury, 29 km south.
A year in Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
161 frost days and 115 days above 20°C a year
From September to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. 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
About 1,109 mm of rain and snow a year
August is the wettest month and February the driest. About 145 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
202 cm of snow in a typical year
Snow falls from October to April, most of all in December (about 49 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel
92% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
The count adds up, day by day, how far the mean temperature falls short of 18°C.
Living with Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
About 136 days a year pass without frost, from an average last frost of 12 May to a first of 27 September.
Afternoons of 17–27°C and nights of at least 8°C arrive in Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Ice storms, floods and heat waves are risks, not averages: they are on Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel’s hazards page.
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 | 29 km south |
| 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 | L'Assomption, 35 km |
How Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel 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
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel’s would only repeat its figures. No closer places have figures: these lie 9–18 km from Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel Fleury | 26.0°C | −14.8°C | 1,109 mm |
| Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier 9.1 km · L'Assomption | 26.6°C 0.6°C warmer | −16.0°C 1.2°C colder | 1,109 mm |
| Saint-Barthélemy 18 km · Nicolet | 25.7°C about the same | −16.4°C 1.6°C colder | 948 mm |
Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and 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 |
A March here can run from −31.0°C to 25.5°C
Bars run from each month’s record low to its record high over 1991–2020; January is the month whose average wanders most from year to year (±3.1°C around −10.5°C), August the one that wanders least (±0.9°C).
Where Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals at Fleury, the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals.
- Comparisons: the towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ across Canada, each on its nearest normals location, without the city totals or the reserves.
- Not on this page: hours of sunshine, missing from the 1991–2020 normals, and a height correction: the town has no elevation on file.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel’s climate
How warm does Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel get in summer?
Afternoons average 26.0°C in July, the warmest time of year.
How cold does Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel get in winter?
In January, the coldest month, the typical low is −14.8°C.
How much rain and snow does Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel get?
Rain and snow, with snow counted as water, total 1,109 mm a year; August leads with 114 mm and February trails with 61 mm.
How long does snow stay on the ground?
Snow covers the ground, 1 cm or more, on about 106 days a year.
Are these figures for Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel itself?
They come from Fleury, which ECCC uses as the nearest normals location for Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel →
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