Photo: Michael Santschi · Public domainMore rain and snow fall on Sainte-Sabine than on 91% of Canadian towns: 1,226 mm a year
Midsummer highs settle at about 25.6°C. July is the wettest month, February the driest. Expect about 151 frosty starts a year, days when the air falls to freezing.
These are not Sainte-Sabine’s own readings: ECCC keeps no normals there, so the page uses Frelighsburg, 27 km south-east.
A year in Sainte-Sabine at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Sainte-Sabine’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Sainte-Sabine feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
151 frost days and 117 days above 20°C a year
Frost comes from October to May; in January almost every night freezes. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 13 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
About 1,226 mm of rain and snow a year
On about 145 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Precipitation and snowfall: Granby, 27 km away (Frelighsburg records no complete year of either).
About 262 cm of snow a year
Expect snow from October to April, with about 59 cm in January, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Heating a home in Sainte-Sabine
92% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
One degree below 18°C for one day makes one heating degree day; the year’s days are added together. A house here needs less heating than 66% of Canadian towns.
Living with Sainte-Sabine’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Afternoons of 17–27°C and nights of at least 8°C arrive in Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →The wind chill passes −20 on about 28 days in a normal year.
Plan shade and water for about 45 days a year above 30 on the humidex.
Ice storms, floods and heat waves are risks, not averages: they are on Sainte-Sabine’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Frelighsburg
Every temperature, frost, snow and degree-day figure on this page is the 1991–2020 normal ECCC publishes for Frelighsburg.
| Distance from the town | 27 km south-east |
| Station altitude | 224 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Granby, 27 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −37.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 34.4°C |
| Average wind | 8.2 km/h on average, most often from the south |
| Next-nearest location | L'Acadie, 27 km |
How Sainte-Sabine compares
Compared with 2,611 towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more across Canada; the dots mark the other normals locations in Quebec.
Nearby towns’ climate
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Sainte-Sabine’s would only repeat its figures.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Sabine Frelighsburg | 25.6°C | −12.9°C | 1,226 mm |
| Farnham 5.3 km · Granby | 25.6°C about the same | −13.4°C 0.5°C colder | 1,226 mm |
| Saint-Alexandre 8.9 km · L'Acadie | 26.6°C 1.0°C warmer | −13.6°C 0.7°C colder | 1,226 mm |
| Bedford 14 km · Frelighsburg | 25.6°C about the same | −12.9°C about the same | 1,340 mm |
Sainte-Sabine weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −3.4°C | −12.9°C | −8.1°C | 95 mm | 59 cm |
| February | −1.9°C | −11.8°C | −6.8°C | 74 mm | 58 cm |
| March | 3.0°C | −6.6°C | −1.8°C | 88 mm | 48 cm |
| April | 11.0°C | 0.5°C | 5.8°C | 101 mm | 17 cm |
| May | 18.7°C | 7.4°C | 13.1°C | 100 mm | 1 cm |
| June | 23.0°C | 12.4°C | 17.7°C | 121 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.6°C | 15.1°C | 20.3°C | 122 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.6°C | 14.2°C | 19.4°C | 113 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.5°C | 10.0°C | 15.3°C | 113 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 13.2°C | 4.3°C | 8.7°C | 109 mm | 4 cm |
| November | 6.5°C | −1.6°C | 2.5°C | 92 mm | 22 cm |
| December | −0.2°C | −8.4°C | −4.3°C | 98 mm | 54 cm |
| Year | 11.7°C | 1.9°C | 6.8°C | 1,226 mm | 262 cm |
January has run from −37.0°C to 18.4°C in thirty years
From one year to the next, January’s average typically shifts by 3.1°C around its normal of −8.1°C, the widest of any month, while June’s shifts by 1.0°C.
Where Sainte-Sabine’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 normals from ECCC for Frelighsburg, its nearest location with complete temperatures.
- Other locations: a location missing months of precipitation or snow is filled from the nearest that has them all, never mixed month by month.
- Comparisons: all Canadian places of 2,500 or more except city totals and reserves, each read the same way.
- 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-Sabine’s climate
How warm does Sainte-Sabine get in summer?
Of all twelve months, July has the warmest afternoons, about 25.6°C.
How cold does Sainte-Sabine get in winter?
Winter bottoms out in January, with lows near −12.9°C.
How much rain and snow does Sainte-Sabine get?
Measured as water, a year brings 1,226 mm: 122 mm in July, the wettest month, and 74 mm in February, the driest.
Are these figures for Sainte-Sabine itself?
Not directly: Sainte-Sabine has no ECCC normals of its own, and Frelighsburg stands in for it.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Sainte-Sabine →
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).