Wet weather: 1,109 mm of rain and snow a year falls on Verchères, more than on 82% of Canadian towns
January mornings start at about −16.0°C. Precipitation peaks in August and eases off in February. Winter nights are cold: in January they are colder than in 75% of Canadian towns. About 145 days a year bring 1 mm of precipitation or more.
Borrowed figures: Verchères has no normals station, so these come from L'Assomption, 6.9 km north-west.
A year in Verchères at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Verchères’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Verchères feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
About 161 frosts and 119 warm days a year
Frost comes from October to May; in January almost every night freezes. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 24 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
1,109 mm of precipitation in a typical year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Precipitation and snowfall: Fleury, 28 km away (L'Assomption records no complete year of either).
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
Heating a home in Verchères
93% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
A day averaging 10 degrees under 18°C adds 10 to the total; warm days add nothing.
Living with Verchères’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
The outdoor season by the averages is Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep, with highs of 17–27°C and lows of 8°C or more.
Parks & trails →Count on some 44 days a year when the wind makes it feel below −20.
Roughly 49 days a year feel hotter than 30 once humidity is counted.
A typical year is calm by definition; Verchères’s hazards page covers the exceptions.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: L'Assomption
L'Assomption is one of the 450 places where ECCC publishes 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 6.9 km north-west |
| Station altitude | 21 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Fleury, 28 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −40.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 36.2°C |
| Average wind | 10.0 km/h on average, most often from the south-west |
| Next-nearest location | Fleury, 28 km |
How Verchères 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
Places around Verchères whose figures come from another normals location. The nearest place to Verchères with figures is 14 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Verchères L'Assomption | 26.6°C | −16.0°C | 1,109 mm |
| Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu 14 km · Fleury | 26.0°C 0.6°C cooler | −14.8°C 1.2°C milder | 1,109 mm |
Verchères 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 | −5.9°C | −16.0°C | −10.9°C | 81 mm | 45 cm |
| February | −4.0°C | −14.8°C | −9.4°C | 61 mm | 43 cm |
| March | 1.8°C | −8.3°C | −3.2°C | 71 mm | 38 cm |
| April | 10.8°C | 0.1°C | 5.5°C | 96 mm | 13 cm |
| May | 19.2°C | 7.2°C | 13.2°C | 98 mm | under 1 cm |
| June | 24.3°C | 12.4°C | 18.4°C | 102 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 26.6°C | 14.8°C | 20.7°C | 106 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.5°C | 13.7°C | 19.6°C | 114 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 21.1°C | 9.2°C | 15.2°C | 97 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 13.0°C | 3.2°C | 8.1°C | 108 mm | 2 cm |
| November | 5.4°C | −2.7°C | 1.3°C | 90 mm | 12 cm |
| December | −1.9°C | −10.2°C | −6.1°C | 85 mm | 49 cm |
| Year | 11.3°C | 0.7°C | 6.0°C | 1,109 mm | 202 cm |
From year to year, January moves by 3.1°C, more than any month, and June least
The thirty-year records stretch furthest in March: a low of −29.5°C in 1992 and a high of 26.0°C in 2012.
Where Verchères’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals, L'Assomption, 1991–2020.
- 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: hours of sunshine, missing from the 1991–2020 normals, and a height correction: the town has no elevation on file.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Verchères’s climate
How warm does Verchères get in summer?
On a normal day in July the thermometer climbs to 26.6°C, the warmest of the year.
How cold does Verchères get in winter?
Deep winter means January, when nights average −16.0°C.
How much rain and snow does Verchères 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.
Are these figures for Verchères itself?
Not exactly. Verchères lacks a normals station, so L'Assomption supplies the figures.
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