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Gatineau weather

Quebec · 300,045 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 13:01

Air: Fair

2°

Clear sky

Feels like -0°C

Wind

9 km/h

Gusts

9 km/h

Humidity

94 %

Pressure

1019 hPa

Clouds

2 %

Storm

Rise 07:38 Set 17:54 Day 10 h 16 min UV 3 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Afternoon

Drizzle

17°16°

Feels like 17°

Wind ↑ SSW 18 km/h

Gusts 46 km/h

Humidity 64 %

💧 0.5 mm

Evening

Drizzle

15°11°

Feels like 15°

Wind ↑ WSW 15 km/h

Gusts 46 km/h

Humidity 83 %

💧 0.9 mm

14:00

17°

SSW 18

17:00

16°

0.5mm

SSW 16

Gatineau forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +6.2° warmer than usual

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Gatineau climate: what a normal year looks like

Nights typically freeze from November to March, the coldest averaging −15 °C in January.

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 26 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −15 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 31 °C.

From 15 h 41 min of daylight in late June to 8 h 42 min in late December.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 63 mm and 103 mm on average.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 15 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (13 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	−6 °C	−15 °C	79 mm
Feb	−3 °C	−13 °C	63 mm
Mar	2 °C	−7 °C	77 mm
Apr	11 °C	0 °C	94 mm
May	19 °C	8 °C	93 mm
Jun	23 °C	12 °C	103 mm
Jul	26 °C	15 °C	102 mm
Aug	25 °C	15 °C	95 mm
Sep	21 °C	10 °C	97 mm
Oct	13 °C	5 °C	103 mm
Nov	6 °C	−2 °C	88 mm
Dec	−1 °C	−8 °C	86 mm
Whole year	11 °C	2 °C	1,080 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 45.48° N, 75.70° W, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Gatineau: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.513µg/m³

PM1014µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Gatineau

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Gatineau, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Moon over Gatineau

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 15:57 Set 08:09

Fri 30/10 79%

Sat 31/10 69%

Sun 1/11 59%

Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter

Tue 3/11 38%

Wed 4/11 28%

Thu 5/11 19%

Fri 6/11 12%

Sat 7/11 6%

Sun 8/11 2%

Mon 9/11 0%

Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (America/Toronto); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Gatineau

Curious about the weather in Gatineau on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Gatineau weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Gatineau, Quebec: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 2 °C (feels like -0 °C) and the wind blows at 9 km/h.

Expected range today: 1 °C to 17 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

Other big cities nearby

Ottawa 7 km 2°

Laval 157 km 4°

Montreal 165 km 3°

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