More snow falls on Saint-Urbain than on 94% of Canadian towns: about 302 cm a year
January mornings start at about −15.3°C. The wettest month is October; the driest is February. Winter nights are cold: in January they are colder than in 72% of Canadian towns. Ice scrapers and block heaters earn their keep on roughly 170 days a year at 0°C or below.
No ECCC station in Saint-Urbain has 1991–2020 normals; the page reads La Pocatière, 45 km south-east, instead.
A year in Saint-Urbain at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Saint-Urbain’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Saint-Urbain feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
About 170 frosts and 92 warm days a year
Frost comes from October to May; in January almost every night freezes. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 18 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
906 mm of precipitation in a typical year
Some 129 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
302 cm of snow in a typical year
The snow season runs October to May; December brings the most, about 65 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snowfall: Bagotville, 92 km away (La Pocatière records no complete year of it).
Heating a home in Saint-Urbain
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. In heating terms, homes need more heating than 63% of Canadian towns.
Living with Saint-Urbain’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Mild days and mild nights together (17–27°C by day, 8°C or more at night) belong to Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Expect around 52 days a year when the wind chill sinks below −20.
Summer brings about 31 days when the humidex passes 30.
Thirty-year normals hide the storms and the extremes: the hazards page has Saint-Urbain’s risks.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: La Pocatière
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for La Pocatière are 2 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 45 km south-east |
| Station altitude | 31 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Bagotville, 92 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −33.5°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.7°C |
| Average wind | 14.8 km/h on average, most often from the south-west |
| Next-nearest location | Forêt Montmorency, 53 km |
How Saint-Urbain 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
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Saint-Urbain’s would only repeat its figures. No closer places have figures: these lie 27–58 km from Saint-Urbain.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Urbain La Pocatière | 24.2°C | −15.3°C | 906 mm |
| Petite-Rivière-Saint-François 27 km · Cap-Tourmente | 25.0°C 0.8°C warmer | −14.8°C 0.5°C milder | 906 mm |
| Saint-Siméon 58 km · Rivière-du-Loup/St-Antonin | 22.5°C 1.7°C cooler | −15.5°C about the same | 1,124 mm |
Saint-Urbain weather by month
Average daily high and low, mean temperature, rain and snow (as water) and snowfall by month, 1991–2020.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −6.5°C | −15.3°C | −10.9°C | 70 mm | 62 cm |
| February | −5.0°C | −14.3°C | −9.6°C | 61 mm | 52 cm |
| March | 0.1°C | −8.8°C | −4.4°C | 62 mm | 49 cm |
| April | 7.6°C | −1.5°C | 3.0°C | 69 mm | 23 cm |
| May | 16.2°C | 4.7°C | 10.4°C | 74 mm | 3 cm |
| June | 21.6°C | 10.0°C | 15.8°C | 85 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 24.2°C | 13.2°C | 18.7°C | 81 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 23.6°C | 12.4°C | 18.0°C | 82 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 18.9°C | 8.3°C | 13.6°C | 78 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 11.1°C | 2.7°C | 7.0°C | 99 mm | 8 cm |
| November | 4.3°C | −2.7°C | 0.8°C | 72 mm | 39 cm |
| December | −2.6°C | −10.1°C | −6.4°C | 74 mm | 65 cm |
| Year | 9.5°C | −0.1°C | 4.7°C | 906 mm | 302 cm |
The most changeable month: January, give or take 2.6°C; the steadiest, June
March has the widest record range, −27.2°C in 2007 to 21.8°C in 2012; the tick on each bar is the month’s normal.
Where Saint-Urbain’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals, La Pocatière, 1991–2020.
- Other locations: precipitation and snowfall come from the nearest location that publishes all twelve months of them, as named above.
- Comparisons: the towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ across Canada, each on its nearest normals location, without the city totals or the reserves.
- 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-Urbain’s climate
How warm does Saint-Urbain get in summer?
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 24.2°C.
How cold does Saint-Urbain get in winter?
Of all twelve months, January has the coldest nights, about −15.3°C.
How much rain and snow does Saint-Urbain get?
Rain and snow add up to about 906 mm of water a year; October brings the most (99 mm), February the least (61 mm).
Are these figures for Saint-Urbain itself?
They come from La Pocatière, which ECCC uses as the nearest normals location for Saint-Urbain.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Saint-Urbain →
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).