Photo: Gordalmighty · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Valère is wetter than 84% of Canadian towns: 1,150 mm of rain and snow a year
High summer brings afternoon highs near 25.1°C. Rain or snow is most frequent in July and least in February. Winter nights are cold: in January they are colder than in 72% of Canadian towns. Expect about 169 frosty starts a year, days when the air falls to freezing.
The nearest ECCC normals location to Saint-Valère is Arthabaska, 10 km south-east, and every figure on this page is its.
A year in Saint-Valère at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Saint-Valère’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Saint-Valère feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
Frost on 169 days, 20°C on 104
From September to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. On about 22 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
1,150 mm of precipitation in a typical year
On about 148 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
220 cm of snow in a typical year
Snow falls from October to May, most of all in December (about 50 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Living with Saint-Valère’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
The comfortable months for a day outside, highs of 17–27°C and nights of 8°C or more: Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Extremes don’t show in averages: floods, wildfire smoke and ice storms are on Saint-Valère’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Arthabaska
Every temperature, frost, snow and degree-day figure on this page is the 1991–2020 normal ECCC publishes for Arthabaska.
| Distance from the town | 10 km south-east |
| Station altitude | 140 m |
| Completeness | at least 15 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −39.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 34.5°C |
| Next-nearest location | Drummondville, 38 km |
How Saint-Valère 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-Valère’s would only repeat its figures. The nearest places to Saint-Valère with figures are 22–25 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Valère Arthabaska | 25.1°C | −15.3°C | 1,150 mm |
| Saint-Wenceslas 22 km · Nicolet | 25.7°C 0.6°C warmer | −16.4°C 1.1°C colder | 948 mm |
| Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil 23 km · Drummondville | 26.0°C 0.9°C warmer | −14.2°C 1.1°C milder | 1,070 mm |
| Saint-Louis-de-Blandford 25 km · Fortierville | 25.5°C about the same | −16.9°C 1.6°C colder | 1,138 mm |
Saint-Valère 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 | −5.8°C | −15.3°C | −10.8°C | 76 mm | 48 cm |
| February | −4.2°C | −13.8°C | −8.9°C | 67 mm | 47 cm |
| March | 1.5°C | −8.2°C | −3.5°C | 73 mm | 39 cm |
| April | 9.8°C | −0.5°C | 4.8°C | 84 mm | 14 cm |
| May | 18.1°C | 6.4°C | 12.2°C | 97 mm | 2 cm |
| June | 22.9°C | 11.5°C | 17.2°C | 117 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.1°C | 14.3°C | 19.4°C | 131 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.2°C | 13.2°C | 18.6°C | 108 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 19.7°C | 9.0°C | 14.5°C | 109 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 12.2°C | 3.3°C | 7.8°C | 115 mm | 3 cm |
| November | 5.0°C | −2.9°C | 1.2°C | 82 mm | 19 cm |
| December | −2.1°C | −10.0°C | −6.1°C | 90 mm | 50 cm |
| Year | 10.5°C | 0.6°C | 5.5°C | 1,150 mm | 220 cm |
A January here can run warm or cold, its average moving by about 3.3°C; the steadiest month is June
Over 1991–2020, January saw both −39.0°C (2004) and 16.0°C (1996), the widest span of any month.
Where Saint-Valère’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the Canadian Climate Normals, 1991–2020, at Arthabaska (the closest location with all twelve months of temperatures).
- Comparisons: the 2,500-plus towns and neighbourhoods of Canada, each read from its closest normals location; whole cities and reserves aren’t counted.
- 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-Valère’s climate
How warm does Saint-Valère get in summer?
In July, the warmest month, the typical high is 25.1°C.
How cold does Saint-Valère get in winter?
Midwinter means January, when a typical night reaches −15.3°C.
How much rain and snow does Saint-Valère get?
July is the wettest month at 131 mm and February the driest at 67 mm, for 1,150 mm over the year.
Are these figures for Saint-Valère itself?
They describe Arthabaska, the nearest normals location, rather than Saint-Valère itself.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Saint-Valère →
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).