The climate in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Climate zone: Moderate zone of the northern hemisphere

It rarely gets really warm here. Due to the warmer temperatures the best time for traveling is from June to October. Less attractive are the cold months from November to April.

Long-term development of temperatures from 1990 - 2021

In contrast to single record values, a long-term development cannot simply be brought about by all weather stations in the country. Both the number and the locations are constantly changing. A simply calculated average value would give a falsified result. If several measuring stations in particularly cold mountain or coastal regions are added in one year, the average would already decrease as a result of this alone. If a station fails during the summer or winter months, it does not provide any values and falsifies the average again. The subsequent long-term development was therefore reduced to only 1 measuring points in order to have actually comparable data over as long a period as possible.

In the years 1990 to 2021 there were only these 1 weather stations in the whole country, which reported continuous temperature values (St Pierre). From these weather reports we have created a long-term development that shows the monthly average temperatures. The hottest month in this entire period was August 2012 with 18.6 °C. February 1994 was the coldest month with an average temperature of -6.3 °C.

The average annual temperature was about 4.8 °C in the years after 1990 and about 6.1 °C in the last years before 2021. So in less than 32 years it has increased by about 1.3 °C. This trend only applies to the selected 1 weather stations in Saint Pierre and Miquelon. A considerably more comprehensive evaluation of the global warming has been provided separately.



Data basis: German Weather Service, individual values averaged and supplemented by own elements.