Photo: Pierre-Paul Drouin · Public domainMore rain and snow fall on Val-des-Sources than on 84% of Canadian towns: 1,150 mm a year
The warmest part of a July day comes in at 25.6°C on average. Winter nights are cold: in January they are colder than in 71% of Canadian towns. The wettest month is July; the driest is February. Plan time outside from June to September, when highs sit at 20–26°C.
Borrowed figures: Val-des-Sources has no normals station, so these come from Richmond, 22 km south-west.
A year in Val-des-Sources at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Val-des-Sources’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Val-des-Sources feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
Frost on 170 days, 20°C on 114
Frost comes from September to May; in January almost every night freezes. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 23 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
About 1,150 mm of rain and snow a year
Some 148 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Precipitation and snowfall: Arthabaska, 27 km away (Richmond records no complete year of either).
220 cm of snow in a typical year
Snow falls from October to May, most of all in December (about 50 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Val-des-Sources
91% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Think of it as a year’s worth of daily shortfalls below 18°C, added up.
Living with Val-des-Sources’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Highs of 17–27°C with nights of 8°C or more come in Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →For blizzards, floods and wildfire, turn to Val-des-Sources’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Richmond
Richmond is one of the 450 places where ECCC publishes 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 22 km south-west |
| Station altitude | 123 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Arthabaska, 27 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −42.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 34.4°C |
| Next-nearest location | Arthabaska, 27 km |
How Val-des-Sources 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
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Val-des-Sources’s would only repeat its figures.
Val-des-Sources 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 | −4.7°C | −15.0°C | −10.0°C | 76 mm | 48 cm |
| February | −2.9°C | −14.3°C | −8.6°C | 67 mm | 47 cm |
| March | 2.6°C | −8.3°C | −2.9°C | 73 mm | 39 cm |
| April | 10.5°C | −0.7°C | 5.1°C | 84 mm | 14 cm |
| May | 18.8°C | 6.0°C | 12.4°C | 97 mm | 2 cm |
| June | 23.4°C | 11.3°C | 17.4°C | 117 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.6°C | 14.1°C | 19.5°C | 131 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.7°C | 13.1°C | 18.9°C | 108 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.4°C | 8.8°C | 14.6°C | 109 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 12.9°C | 3.0°C | 8.0°C | 115 mm | 3 cm |
| November | 5.7°C | −2.9°C | 1.6°C | 82 mm | 19 cm |
| December | −1.3°C | −9.8°C | −5.7°C | 90 mm | 50 cm |
| Year | 11.3°C | 0.4°C | 5.9°C | 1,150 mm | 220 cm |
In February, anything from −42.0°C to 17.2°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 (±3.3°C around −10.0°C), June the one that wanders least (±1.0°C).
Where Val-des-Sources’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals, Richmond: the nearest of its locations with every month’s 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: the towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ across Canada, each on its nearest normals location, without the city totals or the reserves.
- Not on this page: sunshine, absent from every 1991–2020 location, and an altitude correction, for want of the town’s own elevation.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Val-des-Sources’s climate
How warm does Val-des-Sources get in summer?
Midsummer means July, with afternoons near 25.6°C on a typical day.
How cold does Val-des-Sources get in winter?
A typical January night falls to −15.0°C, the year’s low point.
How much rain and snow does Val-des-Sources get?
Precipitation totals 1,150 mm a year, with July the wettest month (131 mm) and February the driest (67 mm).
Are these figures for Val-des-Sources itself?
No: Val-des-Sources has no normals location, so the figures come from Richmond, the nearest with 1991–2020 normals.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Val-des-Sources →
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).