Climate and average weather in Sainte-Thérèse

In Sainte-Thérèse, the summers are warm, showery, and partly cloudy and the winters are very cold, snowy, and partly cloudy.

Best: mid May to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Sainte-Thérèse typically varies from -15°C to 26°C, and is rarely below -26°C or above 30°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Sainte-Thérèse for warm-weather activities is from mid May to late September.

Hottest
Jul
26°
Coldest
Jan
-15°
Wettest
Oct
107 mm
Driest
Feb
62 mm
Rain / yr
1077 mm
132 wet days
Daylight
8.5–15.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
36 m
45.6°N
Clearest
Sep
58% cloud

Sainte-Thérèse is town in Québec, Canada.

Density
2,683/km²
people per km²
Founded
1849

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Sainte-Thérèse weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around mid May to late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Sainte-Thérèse, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 4.5 months, from May 12 to September 26, with daily high temperatures above 18°C. The hottest month of the year in Sainte-Thérèse is July, with an average high of 26°C and low of 16°C.

The cool season lasts 3.1 months, from December 5 to March 8, with daily high temperatures below 0°C. The coldest month of the year in Sainte-Thérèse is January, with an average low of -15°C and high of -6°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in May.

-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan-6-15
Feb-4-13
Mar2-7
Apr111
May188
Jun2413
Jul2616
Aug2515
Sep2010
Oct134
Nov5-2
Dec-2-10

How hot and cold Sainte-Thérèse really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -23°C (around January 23), with roughly 186 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C) 116 of them bitterly cold — worst in January.

-20°-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan-6-6-21-15
Feb-4-4-20-13
Mar22-12-7
Apr1111-31
May181868
Jun23241313
Jul26261616
Aug25251515
Sep2020910
Oct121314
Nov55-7-2
Dec-2-2-15-10

Average hourly temperature in Sainte-Thérèse

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on July afternoons, near 26°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near -15°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Sainte-Thérèse weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan-6° / -15°7610.29.68.90.0
Feb-4° / -13°628.78.110.10.0
Mar / -7°7410.4711.60.0
Apr11° / 10311.33.213.32.5
May18° / 9511.50.214.75.6
Jun24° / 13°10111.7015.46.4
Jul26° / 16°9512.3015.16.3
Aug25° / 15°9611.6013.96.7
Sep20° / 10°9410012.36.3
Oct13° / 10711.40.910.73.2
Nov / -2°8711.14.29.30.4
Dec-2° / -10°8611.69.58.60.0

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Sainte-Thérèse gets about 1077 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 3.0 months, from around May 20 to Aug 18, peaking in July at about 41% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 31.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 107 mm over about 11 wet days; February is the driest, with 62 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 2 · 41%Jan 31 · 29%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3310
Feb329
Mar3410
Apr3711
May3612
Jun3912
Jul4112
Aug3712
Sep3410
Oct3711
Nov3611
Dec3812

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Sainte-Thérèse collects about 1077 mm of rain across 132 wet days — roughly 90 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 107 mm, while February is the driest at just 62 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 29% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec766274103951019596941078786
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan761010
Feb6298
Mar74107
Apr103113
May95120
Jun101120
Jul95120
Aug96120
Sep94100
Oct107111
Nov87114
Dec861210

Snow in Sainte-Thérèse

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

Sainte-Thérèse averages about 43 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 13 to May 5 — about 6.7 months.

January is snowiest, with roughly 9 days of snow and an estimated 51 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 249 cm of snow.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonJan 1
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan1051
Feb852
Mar746
Apr320
May01
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct13
Nov421
Dec1057

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Sainte-Thérèse, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around June 4 and lasts for 4.3 months, ending around October 11. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 51% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 12 and lasts for 3.4 months, ending around January 24. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 70% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 21 · 52%Nov 30 · 28%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3565
Feb3763
Mar3565
Apr3565
May3961
Jun4357
Jul5050
Aug5149
Sep4852
Oct3862
Nov3268
Dec3070

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 13, brings about 15 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around December 13, only 8 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 7 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.97:394:31
Feb10.17:085:12
Mar11.66:175:53
Apr13.35:176:34
May14.74:307:13
Jun15.44:117:40
Jul15.14:267:36
Aug13.95:016:58
Sep12.35:405:59
Oct10.76:205:01
Nov9.37:034:18
Dec8.67:364:07

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Sainte-Thérèse averages about 7 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 4 and 10 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.3 months, from around Jul 7 to Oct 13. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 10 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is November, down near 5 sunny days — about 47% fewer than the September peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedSep 310 daysNov 284 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan7Gloomy
Feb7Gloomy
Mar7Gloomy
Apr7Gloomy
May7Gloomy
Jun7Gloomy
Jul8Mixed
Aug9Mixed
Sep10Mixed
Oct7Gloomy
Nov5Gloomy
Dec6Gloomy

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Sainte-Thérèse, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.5 months, from around June 5 to September 20. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 47% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 21 to June 4, and April is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 8 · 100%Jul 25 · 48%muggyhumiddrycomfortablecomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan1000000
Feb1000000
Mar1000000
Apr991000
May907200
Jun56221571
Jul252830152
Aug312829111
Sep66191140
Oct963100
Nov1000000
Dec1000000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Sainte-Thérèse is steady company: average speeds sit near 12 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeApr 10 · 13 km/hAug 6 · 10 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan12light breeze
Feb12light breeze
Mar12light breeze
Apr12light breeze
May12calm
Jun11calm
Jul10calm
Aug10calm
Sep11calm
Oct12light breeze
Nov12light breeze
Dec12calm

Best time to visit Sainte-Thérèse

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Sainte-Thérèse throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around late May, Sainte-Thérèse is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Sainte-Thérèse for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid May to late September, with a peak score in the last week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 27 · 7.0

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan0.0poor
Feb0.0poor
Mar0.1poor
Apr2.5poor
May5.6good
Jun6.4good
Jul6.3good
Aug6.7good
Sep6.2good
Oct3.3poor
Nov0.4poor
Dec0.0poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Sainte-Thérèse for hot-weather activities is from mid June to early September, with a peak score in the last week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 23 · 6.0

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Sainte-Thérèse, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around July (highs near 26°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near -6°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Sainte-Thérèse sees daytime highs around 26°C and nights near 16°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 12 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Sainte-Thérèse by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Sainte-Thérèse peaks around July 13 at about 8 (very high) — sunscreen and a hat are worth it in the middle of the day. It bottoms out near January 10 at about 1 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 7 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighModerateLowJul 13UV 8Jan 10UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Low
Mar4Moderate
Apr4Moderate
May6High
Jun6High
Jul8Very high
Aug4Moderate
Sep5High
Oct3Moderate
Nov2Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Sainte-Thérèse

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in July the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 4 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan00
Feb00
Mar30
Apr4.50
May6.50
Jun7.52
Jul84
Aug50
Sep50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayTypical season (≥50%)

The growing season in Sainte-Thérèse typically lasts about 207 days, from around April 12 to November 4 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from May 4 to October 10.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 810%Apr 1250%May 490%Oct 1090%Nov 450%Dec 1310%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan431
Feb428
Mar1531
Apr5930
May961
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep990
Oct8220
Nov3330
Dec1031

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Sainte-Thérèse banks about 1,131 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around July.

02505007501,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May94
Jun248
Jul331
Aug297
Sep154
Oct7
Nov0
Dec0

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Sainte-Thérèse receives about 3.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 1.2 and 6.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Mar 13 to Sep 18. The brightest month is June, averaging about 5.9 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is December, down near 1.3 kWh/m² — roughly 79% less than the June peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJun 236.1 kWhDec 161.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.6Dim
Feb2.6Moderate
Mar3.8Moderate
Apr4.8Bright
May5.6Bright
Jun5.9Bright
Jul5.9Bright
Aug5.1Bright
Sep3.9Moderate
Oct2.5Moderate
Nov1.6Dim
Dec1.2Dim

Where is Sainte-Thérèse?

Sainte-Thérèse sits at 45.6°N, 73.8°W, 36 m above sea level, in Canada. The nearest listed city is Boisbriand, 3.0 km away.

Topography around Sainte-Thérèse

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Sainte-Thérèse.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Sainte-Thérèse has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 68 m around an average of 45 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 133 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 924 m.

The land around Sainte-Thérèse is covered by trees (46%) and artificial surfaces (41%) within 3 km, trees (36%), artificial surfaces (25%) and cropland (23%) within 16 km, and trees (48%) and cropland (36%) within 80 km.

3 km
68 m
16 km
133 m
80 km
924 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Boisbriand 3.0 km · Blainville 5.0 km · Saint-Louis-de-Terrebonne 8.0 km · Saint-Eustache 10 km · Val-des-Arbres 13 km · Deux-Montagnes 13 km · Laval 13 km · Chomedey 13 km

Canada travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type A / B
120 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 83% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$55,698
2025
Happiness
6.7 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
97%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
2
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
5.3
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
Religion
Christian 53%none 35%Muslim 5%Hindu 2%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Sainte-Thérèse (45.6392°, -73.8276°, elevation 36 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).