Saint-Zénon gets more frosts than 89% of Canadian towns
In July the day’s top temperature is typically 25.3°C. Counting rain and snow together, it is wetter than 63% of Canadian towns. Rain or snow is most frequent in July and least in February. For walks and days out, the stretch from June to August brings highs of 23–25°C.
Every figure here comes from St-Jovite, 78 km south-west; ECCC has no normals closer to Saint-Zénon, so they describe the wider area.
A year in Saint-Zénon at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Saint-Zénon’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Saint-Zénon feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
About 196 frosts and 111 warm days a year
Frost comes from September to May; in January almost every night freezes. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 41 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
About 948 mm of rain and snow a year
On about 128 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Precipitation: Nicolet, 103 km away (St-Jovite records no complete year of it).
Heating a home in Saint-Zénon
89% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Warm days count for nothing; each colder day adds how far its mean sits below 18°C. By this count, homes here need more heating than 80% of Canadian towns.
Living with Saint-Zénon’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Between the last frost, near 28 May, and the first, near 15 September, lie about 110 frost-free days.
For long days outdoors, Jun, Jul and Aug bring highs of 17–27°C and lows of 8°C or more.
Parks & trails →Count on some 34 days a year when the wind makes it feel below −20.
Humid heat, a humidex over 30, comes on about 35 days a year.
What averages leave out, the floods and ice storms, is on Saint-Zénon’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: St-Jovite
The page’s figures are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for St-Jovite, one of its 450 normals locations.
| Distance from the town | 78 km south-west |
| Station altitude | 234 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Nicolet, 103 km |
| Snowfall from | No location within 100 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −41.4°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.7°C |
| Average wind | 4.1 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | L'Assomption, 91 km |
How Saint-Zénon 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
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Saint-Zénon’s own would show the same figures). Distances here run 33–44 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Saint-Zénon.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Zénon St-Jovite | 25.3°C | −18.3°C | 948 mm |
| Saint-Côme 33 km · L'Assomption | 26.6°C 1.3°C warmer | −16.0°C 2.3°C milder | 1,109 mm |
| Mandeville 44 km · Nicolet | 25.7°C about the same | −16.4°C 1.9°C milder | 948 mm |
Saint-Zénon weather by month
Average daily high and low, mean temperature and precipitation by month, 1991–2020.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −5.5°C | −18.3°C | −11.9°C | 70 mm |
| February | −3.3°C | −17.9°C | −10.6°C | 49 mm |
| March | 2.6°C | −11.3°C | −4.4°C | 52 mm |
| April | 10.3°C | −3.2°C | 3.5°C | 82 mm |
| May | 18.5°C | 3.3°C | 11.0°C | 75 mm |
| June | 23.0°C | 8.5°C | 15.7°C | 95 mm |
| July | 25.3°C | 10.9°C | 18.2°C | 103 mm |
| August | 24.5°C | 9.8°C | 17.2°C | 86 mm |
| September | 20.1°C | 5.6°C | 12.9°C | 95 mm |
| October | 12.3°C | 0.5°C | 6.4°C | 90 mm |
| November | 4.6°C | −5.1°C | −0.2°C | 75 mm |
| December | −2.5°C | −12.9°C | −7.7°C | 76 mm |
| Year | 10.8°C | −2.5°C | 4.2°C | 948 mm |
In March, anything from −38.3°C to 27.1°C
January is the least predictable month: about two years in three its average lands within 3.2°C of the normal, −11.9°C. August is the steadiest, within 1.0°C.
Where Saint-Zénon’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals for St-Jovite, the nearest location with a full year of temperatures.
- 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: every place of 2,500+ in Canada but the city hubs and the reserves, each on its nearest ECCC location.
- Not on this page: snow, with no complete snowfall normals within 100 km, sunshine, which ECCC published for no location, and any height adjustment.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Saint-Zénon’s climate
How warm does Saint-Zénon get in summer?
On a normal day in July the thermometer climbs to 25.3°C, the warmest of the year.
How cold does Saint-Zénon get in winter?
Of all twelve months, January has the coldest nights, about −18.3°C.
How much rain and snow does Saint-Zénon get?
Precipitation totals 948 mm a year, with July the wettest month (103 mm) and February the driest (49 mm).
Are these figures for Saint-Zénon itself?
No. The nearest normals are those of St-Jovite, a long way from Saint-Zénon.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Saint-Zénon →
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).