Midwinter lows in Val-des-Bois sink below those of 78% of Canadian towns
The warmest part of a July day comes in at 26.2°C on average. Counting rain and snow together, it is wetter than 63% of Canadian towns. Precipitation peaks in October and eases off in February. Homes need heating from October to April, the months averaging under 10°C.
ECCC publishes no normals for Val-des-Bois itself; the figures are those of Angers, 38 km south.
A year in Val-des-Bois at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Val-des-Bois’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Val-des-Bois feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
About 179 frosts and 112 warm days a year
Frost comes from September to May; in January almost every night freezes. On about 29 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
Rain and melted snow: about 939 mm a year
On about 141 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Angers publishes no full year of precipitation, so these figures come from Maniwaki, 48 km away.
Snowfall: about 180 cm in a normal year
Snow falls from October to April, most of all in January (about 47 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Val-des-Bois
91% 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. Homes here need more heating than 60% of Canadian towns.
Living with Val-des-Bois’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Between the last frost, near 26 May, and the first, near 22 September, lie about 119 frost-free days.
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 →Storms, floods and heat waves sit outside these normals; Val-des-Bois’s hazards page covers them.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Angers
The page’s figures are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Angers, one of its 450 normals locations.
| Distance from the town | 38 km south |
| Station altitude | 91 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Maniwaki, 48 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −39.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 36.0°C |
| Next-nearest location | Maniwaki, 48 km |
How Val-des-Bois 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 Val-des-Bois’s would only repeat its figures. No closer places have figures: these lie 26–39 km from Val-des-Bois.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Val-des-Bois Angers | 26.2°C | −16.5°C | 939 mm |
| Notre-Dame-du-Laus 26 km · Maniwaki | 25.6°C 0.6°C cooler | −17.4°C 0.9°C colder | 939 mm |
| Low 37 km · Luskville | 26.9°C 0.7°C warmer | −16.0°C 0.5°C milder | 968 mm |
| Lac-Simon 37 km · St-Jovite | 25.3°C 0.9°C cooler | −18.3°C 1.8°C colder | 1,178 mm |
Val-des-Bois weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −5.6°C | −16.5°C | −11.2°C | 76 mm | 47 cm |
| February | −3.3°C | −15.5°C | −9.5°C | 56 mm | 35 cm |
| March | 2.3°C | −8.7°C | −3.7°C | 71 mm | 27 cm |
| April | 10.7°C | −1.0°C | 5.0°C | 72 mm | 7 cm |
| May | 19.1°C | 5.6°C | 12.2°C | 73 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 23.8°C | 10.9°C | 17.4°C | 80 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 26.2°C | 13.4°C | 19.6°C | 87 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.1°C | 12.5°C | 18.7°C | 95 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.4°C | 8.1°C | 14.2°C | 87 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 12.6°C | 2.2°C | 7.4°C | 96 mm | 2 cm |
| November | 5.2°C | −3.5°C | 1.0°C | 72 mm | 16 cm |
| December | −2.1°C | −11.0°C | −7.0°C | 76 mm | 46 cm |
| Year | 11.2°C | −0.3°C | 5.3°C | 939 mm | 180 cm |
January varies most from one year to the next (3.5°C), August least
March has the widest record range, −33.5°C in 2007 to 27.0°C in 2012; the tick on each bar is the month’s normal.
Where Val-des-Bois’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 normals from ECCC for Angers, 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, which none of ECCC’s 450 locations publishes for 1991–2020, and the town’s own height above sea level, so no figure is adjusted for altitude.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Val-des-Bois’s climate
How warm does Val-des-Bois get in summer?
Afternoons average 26.2°C in July, the warmest time of year.
How cold does Val-des-Bois get in winter?
January nights average −16.5°C, the coldest of the year.
How much rain and snow does Val-des-Bois get?
A normal year brings 939 mm, snow included as water: October is wettest at 96 mm, February driest at 56 mm.
How long does snow stay on the ground?
A layer of at least 1 cm stays down on about 121 days a year.
Are these figures for Val-des-Bois itself?
Not exactly. Val-des-Bois lacks a normals station, so Angers supplies the figures.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Val-des-Bois →
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