Photo: Eastmain · CC BY-SA 3.0More rain and snow fall on Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs than on 88% of Canadian towns: 1,178 mm a year
Midsummer highs settle at about 26.5°C. Winter and summer sit 41°C apart. In January, nights here are colder than in 67% of Canadian towns. Ice scrapers and block heaters earn their keep on roughly 159 days a year at 0°C or below.
The nearest ECCC normals location to Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs is Lachute, 28 km south-west, and every figure on this page is its.
A year in Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
Frost on 159 days, 20°C on 115
The frost season runs October to May, and January freezes nearly every night. On about 19 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
About 1,178 mm of rain and snow a year
October is the wettest month and February the driest. Some 143 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 218 cm in a normal year
From October to April snow is likely; January is the peak, at about 56 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs
93% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
A heating degree day is one degree of shortfall below 18°C for one day, summed over the year.
Living with Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Between the last frost, near 12 May, and the first, near 3 October, lie about 143 frost-free days.
Afternoons of 17–27°C and nights of at least 8°C arrive in Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Storms, floods and heat waves sit outside these normals; Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs’s hazards page covers them.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Lachute
Every temperature, frost, snow and degree-day figure on this page is the 1991–2020 normal ECCC publishes for Lachute.
| Distance from the town | 28 km south-west |
| Station altitude | 91 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −36.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 36.0°C |
| Next-nearest location | St-Jovite, 42 km |
How Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs 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 Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs’s own would show the same figures). The one place listed is 11 km from Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs, the nearest with figures.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs Lachute | 26.5°C | −14.7°C | 1,178 mm |
| Sainte-Adèle 11 km · St-Jovite | 25.3°C 1.2°C cooler | −18.3°C 3.6°C colder | 1,178 mm |
Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs 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 | −5.5°C | −14.7°C | −10.2°C | 97 mm | 56 cm |
| February | −3.6°C | −13.6°C | −8.3°C | 72 mm | 47 cm |
| March | 2.4°C | −7.2°C | −2.5°C | 74 mm | 34 cm |
| April | 11.0°C | 0.5°C | 5.9°C | 100 mm | 8 cm |
| May | 19.4°C | 7.4°C | 13.3°C | 89 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 24.1°C | 12.6°C | 18.4°C | 111 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 26.5°C | 15.1°C | 20.5°C | 112 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.4°C | 14.3°C | 19.8°C | 104 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.8°C | 9.9°C | 15.4°C | 114 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 12.8°C | 3.7°C | 8.4°C | 120 mm | 2 cm |
| November | 5.2°C | −2.3°C | 1.6°C | 93 mm | 17 cm |
| December | −1.9°C | −9.5°C | −6.0°C | 94 mm | 53 cm |
| Year | 11.4°C | 1.4°C | 6.4°C | 1,178 mm | 218 cm |
A January here can run warm or cold, its average moving by about 3.2°C; the steadiest month is August
The thirty-year records stretch furthest in March: a low of −30.5°C in 2007 and a high of 26.5°C in 2012.
Where Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals for Lachute, the nearest location with a full year of temperatures.
- Comparisons: every Canadian town and neighbourhood of 2,500 or more, each read from its own nearest location; city totals and reserves are left out.
- Not on this page: sunshine (no 1991–2020 normals exist for it) and any altitude adjustment, since there is no elevation for the town itself.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs’s climate
How warm does Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs get in summer?
Afternoons average 26.5°C in July, the warmest time of year.
How cold does Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs get in winter?
At its coldest, in January, the normal low is −14.7°C.
How much rain and snow does Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs get?
Some 1,178 mm falls in a year. Most of it comes in October (120 mm), the least in February (72 mm).
How long does snow stay on the ground?
A layer of at least 1 cm stays down on about 128 days a year.
Are these figures for Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs itself?
The figures are ECCC’s for Lachute; Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs has no normals station.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs →
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