Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0Wet weather: 1,182 mm of rain and snow a year falls on Saint-Malachie, more than on 89% of Canadian towns
Midwinter brings lows of about −16.5°C. In January, nights here are colder than in 78% of Canadian towns. July is the wettest month, February the driest. The heating season runs October to April: each of those months averages under 10°C.
Borrowed figures: Saint-Malachie has no normals station, so these come from Scott, 24 km west.
A year in Saint-Malachie at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Saint-Malachie’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Saint-Malachie feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on 181 days, 20°C on 100
Frost comes from September to May; in January almost every night freezes. Some 27 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 1,182 mm a year
On about 158 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
About 287 cm of snow a year
Expect snow from October to May, with about 75 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-Malachie
90% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Each day the mean sits under 18°C adds its shortfall; a year’s total is its heating degree days. That means homes here need more heating than 63% of Canadian towns.
Living with Saint-Malachie’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
The frost-free stretch runs from about 18 May to about 27 September, some 130 days in a normal year.
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-Malachie’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Scott
Every temperature, frost, snow and degree-day figure on this page is the 1991–2020 normal ECCC publishes for Scott.
| Distance from the town | 24 km west |
| Station altitude | 145 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −42.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 34.5°C |
| Next-nearest location | Beauséjour, 35 km |
How Saint-Malachie 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
Places around Saint-Malachie whose figures come from another normals location.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Malachie Scott | 25.1°C | −16.5°C | 1,182 mm |
| Frampton 6.3 km · Scott | 25.1°C about the same | −16.5°C about the same | 1,182 mm |
| Saint-Léon-de-Standon 11 km · St Camille | 23.5°C 1.6°C cooler | −17.5°C 1.0°C colder | 1,284 mm |
| Saint-Damien-de-Buckland 14 km · Saint Michel | 25.1°C about the same | −16.0°C 0.5°C milder | 1,182 mm |
Saint-Malachie weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −6.6°C | −16.5°C | −11.9°C | 86 mm | 63 cm |
| February | −4.6°C | −15.5°C | −10.0°C | 75 mm | 64 cm |
| March | 1.1°C | −9.4°C | −4.3°C | 77 mm | 49 cm |
| April | 9.0°C | −1.6°C | 3.9°C | 93 mm | 13 cm |
| May | 17.7°C | 5.3°C | 11.4°C | 98 mm | 1 cm |
| June | 22.8°C | 10.8°C | 16.8°C | 121 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.1°C | 14.1°C | 19.4°C | 126 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.1°C | 13.0°C | 18.5°C | 111 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 19.6°C | 8.4°C | 13.8°C | 99 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 11.7°C | 2.4°C | 7.1°C | 109 mm | 4 cm |
| November | 4.3°C | −3.4°C | 0.6°C | 81 mm | 19 cm |
| December | −2.9°C | −11.1°C | −7.2°C | 106 mm | 75 cm |
| Year | 10.1°C | −0.3°C | 4.8°C | 1,182 mm | 287 cm |
January strays furthest from its normal year to year, by 3.1°C; August the least
Records from 1991 to 2020: no month spans more than January, between −42.0°C (1994) and 15.0°C (1995).
Where Saint-Malachie’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s normals for Scott, 1991–2020, chosen as the nearest location with a full temperature record.
- 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, 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-Malachie’s climate
How warm does Saint-Malachie get in summer?
Afternoons average 25.1°C in July, the warmest time of year.
How cold does Saint-Malachie get in winter?
In January, the coldest month, the typical low is −16.5°C.
How much rain and snow does Saint-Malachie get?
Precipitation totals 1,182 mm a year, with July the wettest month (126 mm) and February the driest (75 mm).
Are these figures for Saint-Malachie itself?
Not quite: they come from Scott, the closest ECCC normals location to Saint-Malachie.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Saint-Malachie →
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).