More snow falls on Saint-Paulin than on 90% of Canadian towns: about 274 cm a year
Expect July afternoons of about 25.1°C. Precipitation is plentiful here, more than falls on 80% of Canadian towns. July is the wettest month, February the driest. Warm coats and heating bills mark the months from October to April, when means dip under 10°C.
These are not Saint-Paulin’s own readings: ECCC keeps no normals there, so the page uses Trois-Rivières, 39 km east.
A year in Saint-Paulin at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Saint-Paulin’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Saint-Paulin feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
Frost on 145 days, 20°C on 104
Frost comes from October to April; in January almost every night freezes. Some 15 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 1,101 mm a year
Some 132 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
About 274 cm of snow a year
Snow falls from October to April, most of all in December (about 69 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Saint-Paulin
93% 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.
Living with Saint-Paulin’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Plan time outside for Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep: highs of 17–27°C and nights no colder than 8°C.
Parks & trails →Frostbite weather, a wind chill under −20, turns up on about 42 days a year.
A humidex above 30 marks about 37 days in a normal year.
Averages smooth over blizzards, ice storms, floods and heat waves; Saint-Paulin’s hazards page covers the risks.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Trois-Rivières
Trois-Rivières is a composite: ECCC joins 2 stations’ readings to make its 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 39 km east |
| Station altitude | 6 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −32.3°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 34.0°C |
| Average wind | 13.4 km/h on average, most often from the south-west |
| Next-nearest location | Nicolet, 39 km |
How Saint-Paulin 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-Paulin whose figures come from another normals location. The nearest place to Saint-Paulin with figures is 13 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Paulin Trois-Rivières | 25.1°C | −14.1°C | 1,101 mm |
| Sainte-Ursule 13 km · Nicolet | 25.7°C 0.6°C warmer | −16.4°C 2.3°C colder | 948 mm |
Saint-Paulin 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 | −5.6°C | −14.1°C | −9.9°C | 83 mm | 61 cm |
| February | −3.9°C | −13.1°C | −8.5°C | 66 mm | 53 cm |
| March | 1.2°C | −7.3°C | −3.1°C | 76 mm | 50 cm |
| April | 8.8°C | 0.3°C | 4.6°C | 87 mm | 14 cm |
| May | 17.3°C | 7.9°C | 12.6°C | 83 mm | under 1 cm |
| June | 22.5°C | 13.6°C | 18.1°C | 105 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.1°C | 16.7°C | 20.9°C | 125 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.1°C | 15.6°C | 19.9°C | 96 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 19.8°C | 11.0°C | 15.5°C | 97 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 12.2°C | 5.1°C | 8.5°C | 101 mm | 4 cm |
| November | 4.9°C | −1.3°C | 1.8°C | 88 mm | 24 cm |
| December | −2.0°C | −8.6°C | −5.3°C | 95 mm | 69 cm |
| Year | 10.4°C | 2.1°C | 6.2°C | 1,101 mm | 274 cm |
January has run from −32.3°C to 12.0°C in thirty years
The month to count on least is January: one year in three its average strays more than 2.8°C from −9.9°C. June moves least, typically by 1.0°C.
Where Saint-Paulin’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals, Trois-Rivières, 1991–2020.
- Comparisons: every Canadian town and neighbourhood of 2,500 or more, each read from its own nearest location; city totals and reserves are left out.
- 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-Paulin’s climate
How warm does Saint-Paulin get in summer?
Summer peaks in July: a typical afternoon reaches 25.1°C.
How cold does Saint-Paulin get in winter?
Midwinter means January, when a typical night reaches −14.1°C.
How much rain and snow does Saint-Paulin get?
July is the wettest month at 125 mm and February the driest at 66 mm, for 1,101 mm over the year.
Are these figures for Saint-Paulin itself?
Not quite: they come from Trois-Rivières, the closest ECCC normals location to Saint-Paulin.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Saint-Paulin →
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).