Photo: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0Sainte-Claire is wetter than 89% of Canadian towns: 1,182 mm of rain and snow a year
Peak summer warmth arrives in July, with afternoons near 25.1°C. Rain or snow is most frequent in July and least in February. In January, nights here are colder than in 78% of Canadian towns. Wet days, with 1 mm of rain or snow or more, come about 158 times a year.
Sainte-Claire has no ECCC normals station of its own: every figure here comes from Scott, 20 km south-west.
A year in Sainte-Claire at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Sainte-Claire’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Sainte-Claire feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on 181 days, 20°C on 100
From September to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 27 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
Rain and melted snow: about 1,182 mm a year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
287 cm of snow in a typical year
From October to May snow is likely; December is the peak, at about 75 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Sainte-Claire
90% 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. That means homes here need more heating than 63% of Canadian towns.
Living with Sainte-Claire’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
The growing season between frosts lasts about 130 days, roughly 18 May to 27 September.
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 →Severe weather is a separate story from the averages: see Sainte-Claire’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Scott
Scott is one of the 450 places where ECCC publishes 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 20 km south-west |
| Station altitude | 145 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −42.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 34.5°C |
| Next-nearest location | Beauséjour, 24 km |
How Sainte-Claire 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-Claire’s would only repeat its figures.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Claire Scott | 25.1°C | −16.5°C | 1,182 mm |
| Saint-Lazare-de-Bellechasse 7.9 km · Saint Michel | 25.1°C about the same | −16.0°C 0.5°C milder | 1,182 mm |
| Sainte-Hénédine 8.3 km · Scott | 25.1°C about the same | −16.5°C about the same | 1,182 mm |
| Saint-Anselme 8.6 km · Beauséjour | 25.5°C about the same | −16.8°C about the same | 1,299 mm |
Sainte-Claire 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 | −6.6°C | −16.5°C | −11.9°C | 86 mm | 63 cm |
| February | −4.6°C | −15.5°C | −10.0°C | 75 mm | 64 cm |
| March | 1.1°C | −9.4°C | −4.3°C | 77 mm | 49 cm |
| April | 9.0°C | −1.6°C | 3.9°C | 93 mm | 13 cm |
| May | 17.7°C | 5.3°C | 11.4°C | 98 mm | 1 cm |
| June | 22.8°C | 10.8°C | 16.8°C | 121 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.1°C | 14.1°C | 19.4°C | 126 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.1°C | 13.0°C | 18.5°C | 111 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 19.6°C | 8.4°C | 13.8°C | 99 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 11.7°C | 2.4°C | 7.1°C | 109 mm | 4 cm |
| November | 4.3°C | −3.4°C | 0.6°C | 81 mm | 19 cm |
| December | −2.9°C | −11.1°C | −7.2°C | 106 mm | 75 cm |
| Year | 10.1°C | −0.3°C | 4.8°C | 1,182 mm | 287 cm |
In January, anything from −42.0°C to 15.0°C
Bars run from each month’s record low to its record high over 1991–2020; January is the month whose average wanders most from year to year (±3.1°C around −11.9°C), August the one that wanders least (±1.0°C).
Where Sainte-Claire’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals for Scott, the nearest location with a full year of temperatures.
- 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: 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-Claire’s climate
How warm does Sainte-Claire get in summer?
Midsummer means July, with afternoons near 25.1°C on a typical day.
How cold does Sainte-Claire get in winter?
A typical January night falls to −16.5°C, the year’s low point.
How much rain and snow does Sainte-Claire get?
1,182 mm a year counting snow as water. The wettest month is July (126 mm); the driest, February (75 mm).
Are these figures for Sainte-Claire itself?
They come from Scott, which ECCC uses as the nearest normals location for Sainte-Claire.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Sainte-Claire →
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).