Photo: abdallahh from Montréal, Canada · CC BY 2.0Wet weather: 1,109 mm of rain and snow a year falls on Sorel-Tracy, more than on 82% of Canadian towns
July afternoons average 26.0°C. Its January nights bite harder than in 71% of Canadian towns. A year here swings 41°C from midwinter lows to midsummer highs. An umbrella or a shovel earns its place on about 145 days a year with 1 mm or more.
Sorel-Tracy has no ECCC normals station of its own: every figure here comes from Fleury, 27 km south.
A year in Sorel-Tracy at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Sorel-Tracy’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Sorel-Tracy feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on 161 days, 20°C on 115
The frost season runs September to May, and January freezes nearly every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 20 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
About 1,109 mm of rain and snow a year
August brings the most rain and snow; February, the least.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
About 202 cm of snow a year
The snow season runs October to April; December brings the most, about 49 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Sorel-Tracy
92% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Every day colder than 18°C on average adds its gap in degrees to the year’s heating total.
Living with Sorel-Tracy’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
A normal year gives the garden about 136 frost-free days, roughly 12 May to 27 September.
Mild days and mild nights together (17–27°C by day, 8°C or more at night) belong to Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →A typical year is calm by definition; Sorel-Tracy’s hazards page covers the exceptions.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Fleury
The page’s figures are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Fleury, one of its 450 normals locations.
| Distance from the town | 27 km south |
| Station altitude | 31 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −39.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.1°C |
| Next-nearest location | L'Assomption, 34 km |
How Sorel-Tracy 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
Places around Sorel-Tracy whose figures come from another normals location. Sorel-Tracy has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 10–20 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sorel-Tracy Fleury | 26.0°C | −14.8°C | 1,109 mm |
| Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier 10 km · L'Assomption | 26.6°C 0.6°C warmer | −16.0°C 1.2°C colder | 1,109 mm |
| Saint-Barthélemy 20 km · Nicolet | 25.7°C about the same | −16.4°C 1.6°C colder | 948 mm |
Sorel-Tracy 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 | −5.8°C | −14.8°C | −10.5°C | 81 mm | 45 cm |
| February | −3.8°C | −13.6°C | −8.6°C | 61 mm | 43 cm |
| March | 1.8°C | −7.3°C | −2.7°C | 71 mm | 38 cm |
| April | 10.5°C | 0.6°C | 5.8°C | 96 mm | 13 cm |
| May | 19.1°C | 7.4°C | 13.2°C | 98 mm | under 1 cm |
| June | 23.9°C | 12.7°C | 18.4°C | 102 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 26.0°C | 14.9°C | 20.2°C | 106 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.0°C | 13.7°C | 19.3°C | 114 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.7°C | 9.4°C | 15.1°C | 97 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 13.0°C | 3.6°C | 8.4°C | 108 mm | 2 cm |
| November | 5.5°C | −2.0°C | 1.9°C | 90 mm | 12 cm |
| December | −2.0°C | −9.3°C | −5.9°C | 85 mm | 49 cm |
| Year | 11.2°C | 1.3°C | 6.2°C | 1,109 mm | 202 cm |
January strays furthest from its normal year to year, by 3.1°C; August the least
The thirty-year records stretch furthest in March: a low of −31.0°C in 1992 and a high of 25.5°C in 2012.
Where Sorel-Tracy’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals, Fleury: 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 Sorel-Tracy’s climate
How warm does Sorel-Tracy get in summer?
On a normal day in July the thermometer climbs to 26.0°C, the warmest of the year.
How cold does Sorel-Tracy get in winter?
Winter bottoms out in January, with lows near −14.8°C.
How much rain and snow does Sorel-Tracy get?
Rain and snow, with snow counted as water, total 1,109 mm a year; August leads with 114 mm and February trails with 61 mm.
How long does snow stay on the ground?
Count on about 106 days of snow cover a year, 1 cm or deeper.
Are these figures for Sorel-Tracy itself?
No. ECCC measures normals at Fleury, not in Sorel-Tracy; the page uses the nearest it has.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Sorel-Tracy →
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).