Lac Clair
48.6268° N, 71.0871° W
Shoreline and neighbouring water from open government data.
Download the map (SVG)Lac Clair, Quebec. 48.6268° N, 71.0871° W
Not for navigation. Depths are from government surveys and may be outdated.
borealbound.ca/lakes/qc/lac-clair-near-saguenay/, compiled October 9, 2026
- Canadian Geographical Names Database, Natural Resources Canada. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
- HydroLAKES v1.0, Messager et al. 2016 / WWF HydroSHEDS. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census boundaries and population, 2021, Statistics Canada. Adapted from Statistics Canada. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada.
- Géobase des bathymétries de lac du Québec (GBLQ), Ministère de l’Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Source: Ministère de l’Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs (MELCCFP), Données Québec.
- États trophiques des lacs (RSVL), Ministère de l’Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Source: Ministère de l’Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs (MELCCFP), Données Québec.
- City page weather forecasts and alerts, Environment and Climate Change Canada. Contains data from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC Data Servers End-use Licence).
- Photographs, Wikimedia Commons contributors. Each photo carries its own licence (CC0, public domain, CC BY or CC BY-SA), credited where shown.
Lac Clair covers 1.5 km², making it larger than 80% of the 29,407 lakes in Quebec. It lies 2 km east of Lac-Sébastien.
- Area
- 1.5 km²
- larger than 80% of the 29,407 lakes in Quebec
- Shoreline
- 11.5 km
- longer than 80% of the 29,407 lakes in Quebec
- Water clarity
- 6.2 mSecchi depth, 2025
- clearer than 87% of the 805 monitored lakes in Quebec
- Elevation
- 184 m
Today on the water
6.4 °C
Observed at Saguenay, as of 4:00 a.m. EDT
choppy Estimated waves, next 12 hours: up to 0.2 m. Around 6 a.m., wind from the west: the west shore is sheltered, waves build toward the east shore.
| Time | 6 a.m. | 9 a.m. | 12 p.m. | 3 p.m. | 6 p.m. | 9 p.m. | 12 a.m. | 3 a.m. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wind km/h | W 20 | W 20 | W 20 | W 20 | W 20 | W 20 | W 20 | W 20 |
| Gusts km/h | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 |
| Waves (est.) m | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |||
| Temp. °C | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| Precip. % | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 |
Today: Mainly cloudy with 40 percent chance of showers. Wind west 20 km/h gusting to 40. High 7. UV index 3 or moderate.
Weather: Saguenay (local forecast), as of 5:05 a.m. EDT
Sun and moon
- Civil dawn
- 6:24 a.m.
- Sunrise
- 6:55 a.m.
- Sunset
- 6:06 p.m.
- Civil dusk
- 6:38 p.m.
- Moonrise
- 5:44 a.m.
- Moonset
- 5:24 p.m.
- Moon
- Waning crescent, 1% lit
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Depth
Not for navigation. Depths are from government surveys and may be outdated.
Water
Trophic status from the latest monitoring: oligotrophic.
Clarity was measured with a Secchi disk in 14 years between 2008 and 2025; the latest annual mean is 6.2 m.
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