Lac des Journalistes
46.7168° N, 75.4631° W
Shoreline and neighbouring water from open government data.
Download the map (SVG)Lac des Journalistes, Quebec. 46.7168° N, 75.4631° W
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borealbound.ca/lakes/qc/lac-des-journalistes/, 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.
- 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).
Lac des Journalistes covers 1.25 km², making it larger than 78% of the 29,407 lakes in Quebec. It lies 4 km southwest of Rapide-des-Chiens.
- Area
- 1.25 km²
- larger than 78% of the 29,407 lakes in Quebec
- Shoreline
- 7 km
- longer than 70% of the 29,407 lakes in Quebec
- Water clarity
- 2.2 mSecchi depth, 2024
- less clear than 83% of the 805 monitored lakes in Quebec
- Elevation
- 212 m
Today on the water
5.4 °C
Observed at Mont-Laurier, as of 7:00 a.m. EDT
choppy Estimated waves, next 12 hours: up to 0.2 m. Around 12 p.m., wind from the northwest: the northwest shore is sheltered, waves build toward the southeast shore.
| Time | 8 a.m. | 11 a.m. | 2 p.m. | 5 p.m. | 8 p.m. | 11 p.m. | 2 a.m. | 5 a.m. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wind km/h | W 10 | W 10 | NW 20 | NW 20 | NW 15 | NW 10 | var. 5 | var. 5 |
| Waves (est.) m | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |||
| Temp. °C | 6 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | -2 |
| Precip. % | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Today: A mix of sun and cloud with 30 percent chance of showers. Wind becoming northwest 20 km/h near noon. High 9. UV index 3 or moderate.
Weather: Mont-Laurier (local forecast), as of 7:02 a.m. EDT
Sun and moon
- Civil dawn
- 6:41 a.m.
- Sunrise
- 7:11 a.m.
- Sunset
- 6:25 p.m.
- Civil dusk
- 6:56 p.m.
- Moonrise
- 6:02 a.m.
- Moonset
- 5:44 p.m.
- Moon
- Waning crescent, 1% lit
Water
Trophic status from the latest monitoring: meso-eutrophic (transition).
Clarity was measured with a Secchi disk in 5 years between 2010 and 2024; the latest annual mean is 2.2 m.