Photo: Amqui · CC BY-SA 3.0Afternoon heat in Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici trails that of 92% of Canadian towns
The depth of winter brings overnight lows near −15.4°C. Temperatures cover 38°C across the year, low to high. Winter nights are cold: in January they are colder than in 73% of Canadian towns. Frost comes on about 172 days a year, so leave time to clear the car.
No ECCC station in Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici has 1991–2020 normals; the page reads Mont-Joli, 14 km north-west, instead.
A year in Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
About 172 frosts and 72 warm days a year
The frost season runs October to May, and January freezes nearly every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 16 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
About 932 mm of rain and snow a year
October is the wettest month and April the driest. On about 132 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
323 cm of snow in a typical year
Snow falls from October to May, most of all in January (about 72 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Heating a home in Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici
87% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
The total grows by a degree for every degree a day’s mean sits under 18°C. In heating terms, homes need more heating than 81% of Canadian towns.
Living with Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Wait until about 16 May to plant out; frost tends to come back around 14 October, about 150 days later.
Warm afternoons without cold nights, 17–27°C and 8°C or more, mark Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Plan for about 59 days a year with a wind chill below −20.
Count on some 16 humid days a year with the humidex past 30.
Storms, floods and heat waves sit outside these normals; Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici’s hazards page covers them.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Mont-Joli
Mont-Joli is a composite: ECCC joins 2 stations’ readings to make its 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 14 km north-west |
| Station altitude | 52 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −34.7°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.1°C |
| Average wind | 17.3 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Rimouski, 34 km |
How Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici 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 Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici’s would only repeat its figures. Distances here run 28–47 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici Mont-Joli | 22.9°C | −15.4°C | 932 mm |
| Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard 28 km · Rimouski | 23.5°C 0.6°C warmer | −14.6°C 0.8°C milder | 965 mm |
| Amqui 47 km · Causapscal | 23.8°C 0.9°C warmer | −19.2°C 3.8°C colder | 932 mm |
Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici 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 | −7.2°C | −15.4°C | −11.3°C | 74 mm | 72 cm |
| February | −6.2°C | −14.4°C | −10.3°C | 65 mm | 66 cm |
| March | −0.9°C | −8.9°C | −4.9°C | 70 mm | 60 cm |
| April | 6.0°C | −1.9°C | 2.0°C | 64 mm | 22 cm |
| May | 14.0°C | 3.9°C | 9.0°C | 76 mm | 2 cm |
| June | 19.8°C | 9.2°C | 14.6°C | 76 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 22.9°C | 12.9°C | 17.9°C | 93 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 22.1°C | 12.1°C | 17.1°C | 78 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 17.3°C | 8.0°C | 12.7°C | 86 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 9.7°C | 2.5°C | 6.1°C | 97 mm | 4 cm |
| November | 3.5°C | −2.8°C | 0.4°C | 74 mm | 31 cm |
| December | −2.9°C | −9.6°C | −6.2°C | 81 mm | 67 cm |
| Year | 8.2°C | −0.4°C | 3.9°C | 932 mm | 323 cm |
The most changeable month: February, give or take 2.7°C; the steadiest, August
Over 1991–2020, March saw both −25.4°C (1992) and 23.3°C (2012), the widest span of any month.
Where Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals, Mont-Joli: the nearest of its locations with every month’s 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, 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 Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici’s climate
How warm does Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici get in summer?
A normal July afternoon tops out at about 22.9°C, the year’s high point.
How cold does Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici get in winter?
Winter bottoms out in January, with lows near −15.4°C.
How much rain and snow does Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici get?
Measured as water, a year brings 932 mm: 97 mm in October, the wettest month, and 64 mm in April, the driest.
Are these figures for Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici itself?
No. ECCC measures normals at Mont-Joli, not in Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici; the page uses the nearest it has.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Sainte-Angèle-de-Mérici →
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