Today
Has it rained enough in Quebec City?
The last rain heavy enough to soak in fell over a week ago. What has fallen since wet the leaves and no more.
Quebec City has had 53.6mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 125mm, so that is about 43% of what the ground usually gets — and the driest October in 30 years was 49.4mm.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
17 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
2 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Quebec City through a normal year
Across a normal year Quebec City gets about 1249.3mm of rain, most of it in July (130.6mm) and least in February (72.8mm).
A normal October in Quebec City has rain on 15 days. Only 11 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Quebec City one of the wetter places this site covers in Canada in October — 3rd of 11, against Vancouver at the wet end (249.2mm) and Edmonton at the dry end (23.1mm).
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Average rainfall by month, 1995–2024
What it means
What that means for what you grow
- Pots and hanging basketsWorth checking by hand even so — a pot in the sun can dry out in a wet week, because there is so little soil to hold anything.
- Beds and bordersNothing needed. Watering soil that is already wet does more harm than good.
- New plantingsAnything planted within the last month is the exception; its roots have not spread far enough to find water on their own.