Photo: PhilippeDugas · CC BY-SA 4.0Frost comes to Saint-Michel-des-Saints more often than to 89% of Canadian towns
Expect July afternoons of about 25.3°C. It is a wet place: more rain and snow fall here than on 63% of Canadian towns. Winter and summer sit 44°C apart. Plan for rain or snow on about 128 days a year, the days with 1 mm or more.
Every figure here comes from St-Jovite, 83 km south-west; ECCC has no normals closer to Saint-Michel-des-Saints, so they describe the wider area.
A year in Saint-Michel-des-Saints at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Saint-Michel-des-Saints’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Saint-Michel-des-Saints feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
196 frost days and 111 days above 20°C a year
From September to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 41 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 948 mm a year
July is the wettest month and February the driest.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
St-Jovite publishes no full year of precipitation, so these figures come from Nicolet, 113 km away.
Heating a home in Saint-Michel-des-Saints
89% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Think of it as a year’s worth of daily shortfalls below 18°C, added up. Homes here need more heating than 80% of Canadian towns.
Living with Saint-Michel-des-Saints’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
On average the last spring frost comes around 28 May and the first autumn frost around 15 September: about 110 frost-free days between.
The outdoor season by the averages is Jun, Jul and Aug, with highs of 17–27°C and lows of 8°C or more.
Parks & trails →Plan for about 34 days a year with a wind chill below −20.
A humidex above 30 marks about 35 days in a normal year.
Thirty-year normals hide the storms and the extremes: the hazards page has Saint-Michel-des-Saints’s risks.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: St-Jovite
St-Jovite is one of the 450 places where ECCC publishes 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 83 km south-west |
| Station altitude | 234 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Nicolet, 113 km |
| Snowfall from | No location within 100 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −41.4°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.7°C |
| Average wind | 4.1 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | L'Assomption, 104 km |
How Saint-Michel-des-Saints 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-Michel-des-Saints’s own would show the same figures). The nearest place to Saint-Michel-des-Saints with figures is 46 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Michel-des-Saints St-Jovite | 25.3°C | −18.3°C | 948 mm |
| Saint-Côme 46 km · L'Assomption | 26.6°C 1.3°C warmer | −16.0°C 2.3°C milder | 1,109 mm |
Saint-Michel-des-Saints weather by month
Average daily high and low, mean temperature and precipitation by month, 1991–2020.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −5.5°C | −18.3°C | −11.9°C | 70 mm |
| February | −3.3°C | −17.9°C | −10.6°C | 49 mm |
| March | 2.6°C | −11.3°C | −4.4°C | 52 mm |
| April | 10.3°C | −3.2°C | 3.5°C | 82 mm |
| May | 18.5°C | 3.3°C | 11.0°C | 75 mm |
| June | 23.0°C | 8.5°C | 15.7°C | 95 mm |
| July | 25.3°C | 10.9°C | 18.2°C | 103 mm |
| August | 24.5°C | 9.8°C | 17.2°C | 86 mm |
| September | 20.1°C | 5.6°C | 12.9°C | 95 mm |
| October | 12.3°C | 0.5°C | 6.4°C | 90 mm |
| November | 4.6°C | −5.1°C | −0.2°C | 75 mm |
| December | −2.5°C | −12.9°C | −7.7°C | 76 mm |
| Year | 10.8°C | −2.5°C | 4.2°C | 948 mm |
From year to year, January moves by 3.2°C, more than any month, and August least
The thirty-year records stretch furthest in March: a low of −38.3°C in 2007 and a high of 27.1°C in 2012.
Where Saint-Michel-des-Saints’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals at St-Jovite, the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals.
- Other locations: ECCC blanks a month that fails its completeness rule, so the precipitation or snowfall here comes from the next location with all twelve months.
- 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: snowfall (no location within 100 km publishes a full year of it), sunshine (none for 1991–2020) and an altitude correction.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Saint-Michel-des-Saints’s climate
How warm does Saint-Michel-des-Saints get in summer?
On a normal day in July the thermometer climbs to 25.3°C, the warmest of the year.
How cold does Saint-Michel-des-Saints get in winter?
Deep winter means January, when nights average −18.3°C.
How much rain and snow does Saint-Michel-des-Saints get?
The year adds up to 948 mm. July is the peak month (103 mm) and February the low one (49 mm).
Are these figures for Saint-Michel-des-Saints itself?
No. The nearest normals are those of St-Jovite, a long way from Saint-Michel-des-Saints.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Saint-Michel-des-Saints →
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