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Has the climate in Sept-Îles changed?

Sept-Îles has warmed about 0.8°F since 1996.

About 0.3°F per decade, measured from Sept-Îles's official daily weather records, 1996–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Sept-Îles's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Canada — neither unusually fast nor unusually slow.

What has actually changed

Each card compares the 1970s (the first ten years of the record) with recent years (the last ten) — the same span the headline and the chart use.

Freezing nights
1 fewer night
1970s
177 / yr
Recent
176 / yr
Milder winters — fewer frosts
Average temperature
+0.6°F
1970s
37.3°F
Recent
37.9°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
about the same
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
About the same number of heat days
Rainy days
59 more days
1970s
109 / yr
Recent
168 / yr
Wetter on average

Sept-Îles's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1996 to 2025.

34°36°38°40°42°44°1996: 40.1°F1997: 36.3°F1998: 38.4°F1999: 39.8°F2000: 36.6°F2001: 37.6°F2002: 35.4°F2003: 36.3°F2004: 35.5°F2005: 37.5°F2006: 39.0°F2007: 36.3°F2008: 36.8°F2009: 37.2°F2010: 42.2°F2011: 37.0°F2012: 39.6°F2014: 38.4°F2015: 36.9°F2016: 37.5°F2017: 37.3°F2018: 36.0°F2019: 35.4°F2020: 37.7°F2021: 40.2°F2022: 38.2°F2023: 40.1°F2025: 38.9°Flong-term trend19962000201020202025
a warmer-than-average year a cooler-than-average year

Each bar is one year. Most recent years sit above the older ones. Some recent years still came in cool — warming is a slope, not a straight climb.

In day-to-day terms, that long-term shift shows up as about 8 more freezing nights a year compared with the 1970s.

When in the year the change shows up

How much warmer each month is now than in the 1970s. Useful if you garden or care about a particular season — otherwise the headline above already has the answer.

-4.0°-3.5°-3.0°-2.5°-2.0°-1.5°-1.0°-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°January: +0.4°F+0.4JFebruary: -3.5°F-3.5FMarch: -1.1°F-1.1MApril: -1.0°F-1.0AMay: -0.0°F-0.0MJune: -0.6°F-0.6JJuly: +0.5°F+0.5JAugust: +0.7°F+0.7ASeptember: +0.2°F+0.2SOctober: +1.8°F+1.8ONovember: +0.4°F+0.4NDecember: -0.4°F-0.4D

February has cooled the most — about 3.6°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 24 years of daily observations at Baie-comeau, a weather station, about 164 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →