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Maple sugaring in La Côte-de-Beaupré, Quebec

La Côte-de-Beaupré is a regional county municipality (MRC) in Quebec. Statistics Canada's 2021 Census of Agriculture counted 33 farms reporting maple taps here (taps withheld by Statistics Canada). Around Boischatel, sap usually runs from March 22 to April 25. Here's the long-run pattern, 35 seasons of sap weather, and the outlook this week.
Too early to tapAbout 166 days until the usual start.
Sap starts
Mar 22
producers' record
Season ends
Apr 25
about 5 weeks
Sap days / season
25.1
1991–2025 average
Taps, 2021
withheld
by Statistics Canada

Sap-flow outlook at Boischatel right now

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Forecast for Boischatel, QC

Updated Oct 7, 11:30 AM EDT

Off-season for now. Sap needs freezing nights, and none are in sight. La Côte-de-Beaupré's season usually opens around March 22, which is 166 days away.

No freeze-thaw days in the forecast

freeze thaw 0 °C

  1. ThuOct 8
    7° / 14°
    No refreeze forecast
  2. FriOct 9
    6° / 12°
    No refreeze forecast
  3. SatOct 10
    2° / 11°
    No refreeze forecast
  4. SunOct 11
    5° / 18°
    No refreeze forecast
  5. MonOct 12
    11° / 15°
    No refreeze forecast
  6. TueOct 13
    8° / 12°
    No refreeze forecast

Data: Environment and Climate Change Canada. Verdicts use freeze-thaw thresholds from maple field research; your woods may run a little differently.

When the sap runs

The sugaring calendar at Boischatel

Freeze-thaw weather at Boischatel peaks in the weeks of Mar 23 to Apr 20, which hold about 55% of a season's sap days. April is the busiest month. Typical dates are anchored to producers' reported season in the region (Houle et al. 2015, 1999–2011): this division's weather signals, moved 6.8 days earlier for the opening and 1.4 for the closing, the average gap to that record. The spread and the year-by-year bars below are the unadjusted weather signal.
Typical season: Mar 22 – Apr 250246Week of Dec 1: 0.6 sap days on averageWeek of Dec 8: 0.6 sap days on averageWeek of Dec 15: 0.5 sap days on averageWeek of Dec 22: 0.5 sap days on averageWeek of Dec 29: 0.2 sap days on averageWeek of Jan 5: 0.2 sap days on averageWeek of Jan 12: 0.5 sap days on averageWeek of Jan 19: 0.1 sap days on averageWeek of Jan 26: 0.2 sap days on averageWeek of Feb 2: 0.3 sap days on averageWeek of Feb 9: 0.1 sap days on averageWeek of Feb 16: 0.5 sap days on averageWeek of Feb 23: 0.8 sap days on averageWeek of Mar 2: 0.9 sap days on averageWeek of Mar 9: 1.5 sap days on averageWeek of Mar 16: 1.7 sap days on averageWeek of Mar 23: 2.7 sap days on averageWeek of Mar 30: 3.0 sap days on averageWeek of Apr 6: 2.9 sap days on averageWeek of Apr 13: 2.9 sap days on averageWeek of Apr 20: 2.3 sap days on averageWeek of Apr 27: 1.4 sap days on averageWeek of May 4: 0.6 sap days on averageWeek of May 11: 0.3 sap days on averageWeek of May 18: 0.1 sap days on averageWeek of May 25: 0.0 sap days on averageDecJanFebMarAprMaytaps in ~Mar 22
Average number of freeze-thaw sap days in each week of the season at Boischatel, 1991–2025 (Daymet temperatures). A sap day is an overnight low under −1 °C (30.2 °F) followed by an afternoon high over +3 °C (37.4 °F). The shaded band is the typical season.

Year-to-year spread

Opening signal
Median Mar 29; the middle half of seasons fell between Mar 26 and Apr 1. Earliest Mar 12 (2010), latest Apr 7 (1997).
Closing signal
Median Apr 26; middle half between Apr 22 and Apr 30. Earliest Apr 5 (2021), latest May 10 (2020).
Sap days by month
Dec9%Jan4%Feb6%Mar31%Apr44%May5%

35 seasons of sap weather

La Côte-de-Beaupré seasons, 1991–2025

The best sap year at Boischatel was 2020 with 41 freeze-thaw days; the leanest was 2015 with 13. Seasons that start early tend to end early too: the trees run on the swing between freezing nights and mild days, and heat ends it.
JanFebMarAprMaysap days20252025: Mar 25 – Apr 21, 27 sap days2720242024: Mar 18 – Apr 22, 34 sap days3420232023: Mar 26 – Apr 21, 28 sap days2820222022: Mar 29 – Apr 24, 26 sap days2620212021: Mar 17 – Apr 5, 18 sap days1820202020: Apr 6 – May 10, 41 sap days4120192019: Apr 1 – May 1, 27 sap days2720182018: Mar 31 – Apr 24, 29 sap days2920172017: Mar 26 – Apr 25, 29 sap days2920162016: Apr 3 – May 2, 34 sap days3420152015: Apr 3 – Apr 22, 13 sap days1320142014: Apr 1 – Apr 25, 18 sap days1820132013: Mar 26 – Apr 27, 27 sap days2720122012: Mar 14 – Apr 14, 20 sap days2020112011: Mar 30 – Apr 25, 25 sap days2520102010: Mar 12 – Apr 15, 23 sap days2320092009: Mar 24 – Apr 20, 25 sap days2520082008: Apr 4 – May 3, 14 sap days1420072007: Mar 29 – Apr 26, 29 sap days2920062006: Mar 19 – Apr 11, 25 sap days2520052005: Mar 27 – Apr 22, 26 sap days2620042004: Mar 29 – Apr 30, 25 sap days2520032003: Apr 1 – May 3, 17 sap days1720022002: Mar 29 – Apr 30, 22 sap days2220012001: Mar 28 – Apr 29, 24 sap days2420002000: Mar 26 – Apr 27, 28 sap days2819991999: Mar 27 – Apr 28, 31 sap days3119981998: Apr 5 – Apr 21, 19 sap days1919971997: Apr 7 – May 5, 25 sap days2519961996: Mar 29 – Apr 30, 26 sap days2619951995: Mar 31 – Apr 25, 28 sap days2819941994: Apr 1 – May 3, 27 sap days2719931993: Mar 26 – Apr 28, 18 sap days1819921992: Apr 3 – May 8, 26 sap days2619911991: Mar 27 – Apr 29, 23 sap days23
Each bar runs from the season's opening signal to its closing signal, estimated from daily Daymet temperatures at Boischatel. Dashed lines mark the typical dates. The right column counts freeze-thaw sap days from December through May.

Maple production

La Côte-de-Beaupré in the Census of Agriculture

Statistics Canada counts the farms that report maple taps in its Census of Agriculture every five years. In 2021 it counted 33 in La Côte-de-Beaupré; in 2016, 20 farms and 51,506 taps.

Over the five years the farm count changed +65%. Statistics Canada cautions that 2021 and 2016 are not strictly comparable: the census-farm definition changed in 2021, and farms were assigned to their main location more strictly.

Statistics Canada doesn't publish syrup volume by census division, so the Canadian pages show farms and taps, not gallons or litres.

La Côte-de-Beaupré maple production, 2016 and 2021 (Statistics Canada, Census of Agriculture)
Census yearFarms reporting tapsTaps
202133withheld by Statistics Canada
20162051,506
  • "Withheld by Statistics Canada": Statistics Canada suppressed the value as too unreliable to publish (F). The farm count is still published.

A separate, newer source

PPAQ regional fact sheet, 2026

The Producteurs et productrices acéricoles du Québec (PPAQ) publish a fact sheet for each sugaring region, with figures for every MRC. These are from the 2026 Québec – Rive-Nord sheet. They count enterprises registered under the joint marketing plan, by where the sugarbush is; the census above counts 2021 farms by their main location. The two sit side by side here and are never added together.

Enterprises
17
under the joint marketing plan
Taps
74,229
as printed
Annual production
280,586 lb
estimate, pounds of syrup
Value
$936,961
Canadian dollars

Taps by forest ownership

Private forest 100%Public forest 0%

Nearby

Neighboring maple divisions

Distances are between reference towns; typical dates are each division's own estimate.

About these numbers

The season dates are estimated from 35 seasons of daily high and low temperatures for the Daymet 1-km grid cell at Boischatel, the division's most populous municipality in the 2021 Census; the cell sits at 123 m (404 ft). Each day is scored with the same freeze-thaw rule as our live forecast: a sap day is an overnight low under −1 °C (30.2 °F) followed by an afternoon high over +3 °C (37.4 °F). A season's closing signal is the last sap day before accumulated warmth reaches a threshold, and the opening signal sits 35 days before that, never earlier than the first real freeze-thaw week. The rule was calibrated on 117 state-seasons of USDA-reported dates in the US and is applied here unchanged. In Quebec it reproduces the pattern between regions in producers' reported seasons (Houle et al. 2015), and the typical dates are anchored to that record. Production figures are copied from Statistics Canada as published; the PPAQ figures, from its 2026 regional fact sheet, are shown separately. Full method, the Daymet checks and the Quebec validation → Run a sugarhouse here? Put this sap forecast on your own website →

Sources · 9

  1. 1.Maple taps, Census of Agriculture, 2021 (Table 32-10-0362-01) · Statistics Canada
  2. 2.Maple taps, Census of Agriculture, 2011 and 2016 (Table 32-10-0423-01) · Statistics Canada
  3. 3.Fiche région 2026 : Québec – Rive-Nord · Producteurs et productrices acéricoles du Québec
  4. 4.Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 4 R1 · ORNL DAAC
  5. 5.Impacts of climate change on the timing of the production season of maple syrup in eastern Canada (PLOS ONE 10(12): e0144844, 2015) · Houle et al.
  6. 6.Sap flow in sugar maple: timing and weather drivers (Frontiers in Agronomy, 2025) · de Lima Santos et al.
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  1. 7.2021 Census cartographic boundary files (census divisions, population centres) · Statistics Canada
  2. 8.Population and dwelling counts, 2021 Census (Tables 98-10-0002-01 and 98-10-0011-01) · Statistics Canada
  3. 9.GeoNames geographical database (CA) · GeoNames

Licences and attribution

  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Census of Agriculture 2021 and 2016 (Tables 32-10-0362-01 and 32-10-0423-01), 2021 Census population and dwelling counts (Tables 98-10-0002-01 and 98-10-0011-01) and 2021 Census cartographic boundary files. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
  • Thornton, M.M., R. Shrestha, Y. Wei, P.E. Thornton, S-C. Kao, and B.E. Wilson. 2022. Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 4 R1. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2129
  • Place coordinates: GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.
  • Québec MRC figures: Producteurs et productrices acéricoles du Québec, Fiches région 2026 (production estimates from Groupe AGÉCO).

FAQ

La Côte-de-Beaupré sugaring questions

When should I tap maple trees in La Côte-de-Beaupré, Quebec?
In a typical year the sap starts running around March 22 near Boischatel and the season winds down around April 25. Have your taps in a day or two before the first forecast string of nights below −1 °C and days above +3 °C. In the past 35 seasons the weather signal came as early as Mar 12 and as late as Apr 7.
How much maple syrup does La Côte-de-Beaupré produce?
Statistics Canada doesn't publish syrup volume by census division. Its 2021 Census of Agriculture counted 33 farms reporting maple taps in La Côte-de-Beaupré; the tap count was withheld by Statistics Canada. Separately, the PPAQ's 2026 fact sheet for the Québec – Rive-Nord region estimates annual production at 280,586 lb of syrup from 74,229 taps.
How many sap days does La Côte-de-Beaupré get in a season?
On average 25.1 freeze-thaw sap days from December through May at Boischatel, of which about 10.9 are textbook days with a night between about −7 and −2 °C and a day between 4 and 9 °C. The best season since 1991 was 2020 (41 sap days); the leanest was 2015 (13).
Where do these dates come from?
From 35 seasons of daily high and low temperatures at Boischatel (Daymet 1-km grid), scored with the same freeze-thaw rule as our live forecast. In Quebec they are anchored to producers' reported season in the region (Houle et al. 2015, 1999–2011). They describe a typical year at one point in the division; your sugarbush, slope and elevation can shift them by days.

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