Bathurst climate by month
What the weather is like
Bathurst has a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb): warm summers, cold winters and precipitation in every season.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 24° and nights 14°. January is the coolest month, with highs of -5° and lows of -15°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 29°, a large swing typical of continental interiors.
About 1,125 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. June is the wettest month (94 mm, 13 wet days) and January the driest (93 mm, 8 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 35% in August to 47% in April.
The sea reaches about 17° in August. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Ottawa, the capital, Bathurst is 2.7° cooler on a July afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 24° · July
- Coldest nights
- -15° · January
- Wettest month
- June
- Driest month
- January
- Clearest skies
- August · 35% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 17° · August
- Longest day
- 15 h 58 min
- Shortest day
- 8 h 27 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | -5° | -4° | 1° | 7° | 15° | 20° | 24° | 24° | 19° | 12° | 5° | -2° |
| Average low | -15° | -14° | -9° | -2° | 4° | 10° | 14° | 13° | 9° | 3° | -2° | -9° |
| Precipitation | 93 mm | 68 mm | 86 mm | 83 mm | 96 mm | 94 mm | 108 mm | 102 mm | 83 mm | 110 mm | 107 mm | 95 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 8.3 | 8.8 | 11.5 | 11.7 | 11.3 | 13 | 12.3 | 11.2 | 9 | 11.8 | 11.5 | 11.5 |
| Cloud cover | 43% | 44% | 44% | 47% | 45% | 41% | 38% | 35% | 37% | 42% | 47% | 45% |
| Sea temperature | 0° | -1° | -1° | 0° | 4° | 11° | 16° | 17° | 14° | 10° | 5° | 1° |
| Daylight | 8h 51 | 10h 16 | 11h 51 | 13h 37 | 15h 07 | 15h 58 | 15h 37 | 14h 18 | 12h 36 | 10h 55 | 9h 19 | 8h 27 |
| Month score | 33 | 31 | 25 | 23 | 49 | 65 | 68 | 72 | 76 | 34 | 24 | 25 |