Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Few Canadian towns have cooler summers than Saint-Modeste
January mornings start at about −15.5°C. October is the wettest month, January the driest. Precipitation is plentiful here, more than falls on 83% of Canadian towns. About 137 days a year bring 1 mm of precipitation or more.
Saint-Modeste has no ECCC normals station of its own: every figure here comes from Rivière-du-Loup/St-Antonin, 11 km west.
A year in Saint-Modeste at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Saint-Modeste’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Saint-Modeste feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
About 176 frosts and 74 warm days a year
The frost season runs October to May, and January freezes nearly every night. On about 17 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
Rain and melted snow: about 1,124 mm a year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Precipitation and snowfall: Grandes-Bergeronnes, 51 km away (Rivière-du-Loup/St-Antonin records no complete year of either).
281 cm of snow in a typical year
Expect snow from October to May, with about 66 cm in December, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Heating a home in Saint-Modeste
88% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
The total grows by a degree for every degree a day’s mean sits under 18°C. By this count, homes here need more heating than 81% of Canadian towns.
Living with Saint-Modeste’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Plan time outside for Jun, Jul and Aug: highs of 17–27°C and nights no colder than 8°C.
Parks & trails →On some 49 days a year the wind chill drops past −20; mitts and a scarf earn their place.
Humid summer days, the humidex above 30, number about 16 a year.
The normals describe a typical year, not its worst days; the hazards page covers Saint-Modeste’s.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Rivière-du-Loup/St-Antonin
ECCC builds the Rivière-du-Loup/St-Antonin normals from 2 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 11 km west |
| Station altitude | 147 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Grandes-Bergeronnes, 51 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −31.3°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 34.2°C |
| Average wind | 9.8 km/h on average, most often from the north |
| Next-nearest location | Grandes-Bergeronnes, 51 km |
How Saint-Modeste compares
Placed among 2,611 Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+, each on its nearest normals location; each dot is another location used in Quebec.
Nearby towns’ climate
Places around Saint-Modeste whose figures come from another normals location. The nearest places to Saint-Modeste with figures are 37–50 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Modeste Rivière-du-Loup/St-Antonin | 22.5°C | −15.5°C | 1,124 mm |
| Notre-Dame-des-Neiges 37 km · Grandes-Bergeronnes | 22.3°C about the same | −16.6°C 1.1°C colder | 1,124 mm |
| Témiscouata-sur-le-Lac 42 km · Edmundston | 25.0°C 2.5°C warmer | −19.1°C 3.6°C colder | 1,012 mm |
| Saint-Pascal 43 km · La Pocatière | 24.2°C 1.7°C warmer | −15.3°C about the same | 906 mm |
Saint-Modeste weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −7.3°C | −15.5°C | −11.4°C | 63 mm | 51 cm |
| February | −6.1°C | −14.4°C | −10.2°C | 68 mm | 64 cm |
| March | −0.8°C | −9.0°C | −4.9°C | 74 mm | 52 cm |
| April | 6.0°C | −1.9°C | 2.1°C | 98 mm | 21 cm |
| May | 14.2°C | 4.2°C | 9.3°C | 96 mm | 1 cm |
| June | 19.7°C | 9.4°C | 14.5°C | 101 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 22.5°C | 12.8°C | 17.7°C | 113 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 21.8°C | 12.2°C | 17.0°C | 111 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 17.2°C | 7.9°C | 12.5°C | 110 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 9.6°C | 2.2°C | 5.9°C | 124 mm | 5 cm |
| November | 2.8°C | −3.3°C | −0.3°C | 78 mm | 22 cm |
| December | −3.7°C | −10.4°C | −7.1°C | 86 mm | 66 cm |
| Year | 8.0°C | −0.5°C | 3.8°C | 1,124 mm | 281 cm |
February strays furthest from its normal year to year, by 2.8°C; August the least
The thirty-year records stretch furthest in March: a low of −25.8°C in 2003 and a high of 21.1°C in 2012.
Where Saint-Modeste’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals, Rivière-du-Loup/St-Antonin, 1991–2020.
- Other locations: where a location publishes no full year of precipitation or snowfall, the nearest one that does supplies it, named beside those figures.
- Comparisons: a pool of Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, read alike; whole cities and reserves stay out of it.
- Not on this page: sunshine, which none of ECCC’s 450 locations publishes for 1991–2020, and the town’s own height above sea level, so no figure is adjusted for altitude.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Saint-Modeste’s climate
How warm does Saint-Modeste get in summer?
In July, the warmest month, the typical high is 22.5°C.
How cold does Saint-Modeste get in winter?
The coldest nights come in January, averaging −15.5°C.
How much rain and snow does Saint-Modeste get?
Over twelve months, rain and melted snow come to 1,124 mm; the range runs from 63 mm in January to 124 mm in October.
Are these figures for Saint-Modeste itself?
Not as such: Rivière-du-Loup/St-Antonin is the nearest normals location, and Saint-Modeste has none.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Saint-Modeste →
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).