Photo: Dana2255 · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets is wetter than 84% of Canadian towns: 1,138 mm of rain and snow a year
The coldest hours of a January night bottom out at −16.9°C on average. Winter nights are cold: in January they are colder than in 81% of Canadian towns. Temperatures cover 42°C across the year, low to high. Ice scrapers and block heaters earn their keep on roughly 175 days a year at 0°C or below.
ECCC publishes no normals for Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets itself; the figures are those of Fortierville, 12 km east.
A year in Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on 175 days, 20°C on 107
The frost season runs September to May, and January freezes nearly every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 29 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 1,138 mm a year
July brings the most rain and snow; February, the least. On about 141 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 253 cm in a normal year
The snow season runs October to April; December brings the most, about 59 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets
91% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Degree days add up how far each day’s mean temperature falls below 18°C over a year. By this count, homes here need more heating than 61% of Canadian towns.
Living with Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Warm afternoons without cold nights, 17–27°C and 8°C or more, mark Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Storms, floods and heat waves sit outside these normals; Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets’s hazards page covers them.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Fortierville
The page’s figures are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Fortierville, one of its 450 normals locations.
| Distance from the town | 12 km east |
| Station altitude | 53 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −41.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.9°C |
| Next-nearest location | Trois-Rivières, 28 km |
How Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets 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
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets’s would only repeat its figures.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets Fortierville | 25.5°C | −16.9°C | 1,138 mm |
| Batiscan 3.3 km · Fortierville | 25.5°C about the same | −16.9°C about the same | 1,138 mm |
| Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan 14 km · Trois-Rivières | 25.1°C about the same | −14.1°C 2.8°C milder | 1,101 mm |
Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −6.9°C | −16.9°C | −12.0°C | 81 mm | 56 cm |
| February | −4.9°C | −15.9°C | −10.5°C | 69 mm | 55 cm |
| March | 1.2°C | −9.0°C | −4.0°C | 79 mm | 47 cm |
| April | 9.5°C | −1.0°C | 4.4°C | 94 mm | 15 cm |
| May | 18.4°C | 5.8°C | 12.1°C | 92 mm | 1 cm |
| June | 23.3°C | 11.1°C | 17.2°C | 108 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.5°C | 14.0°C | 19.6°C | 133 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.5°C | 12.9°C | 18.6°C | 103 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.0°C | 8.3°C | 14.2°C | 95 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 12.1°C | 2.5°C | 7.4°C | 105 mm | 3 cm |
| November | 4.6°C | −3.2°C | 0.9°C | 82 mm | 19 cm |
| December | −2.9°C | −10.9°C | −6.9°C | 100 mm | 59 cm |
| Year | 10.4°C | −0.2°C | 5.1°C | 1,138 mm | 253 cm |
In March, anything from −32.0°C to 23.5°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 (±3.2°C around −12.0°C), June the one that wanders least (±1.0°C).
Where Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals for Fortierville, the nearest location with a full year of temperatures.
- 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, 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-Pierre-les-Becquets’s climate
How warm does Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets get in summer?
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 25.5°C.
How cold does Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets get in winter?
Expect nights around −16.9°C in January; no month is colder.
How much rain and snow does Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets get?
Over twelve months, rain and melted snow come to 1,138 mm; the range runs from 69 mm in February to 133 mm in July.
How long does snow stay on the ground?
Snow covers the ground, 1 cm or more, on about 134 days a year.
Are these figures for Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets itself?
Not directly: Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets has no ECCC normals of its own, and Fortierville stands in for it.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets →
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