Lac Mékinac
47.0549° N, 72.6735° W
Shoreline and neighbouring water from open government data.
Download the map (SVG)Lac Mékinac, Quebec. 47.0549° N, 72.6735° W
Not for navigation. Depths are from government surveys and may be outdated.
borealbound.ca/lakes/qc/lac-mekinac/, 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 Mékinac covers 22.8 km², making it larger than 98% of the 29,407 lakes in Quebec. It lies 4.4 km southwest of Doheny.
- Area
- 22.8 km²
- larger than 98% of the 29,407 lakes in Quebec
- Shoreline
- 56.1 km
- longer than 96% of the 29,407 lakes in Quebec
- Water clarity
- 3.2 mSecchi depth, 2025
- less clear than 63% of the 805 monitored lakes in Quebec
- Elevation
- 158 m
Today on the water
6.6 °C
Observed at Mauricie, as of 1:00 a.m. EDT
choppy Estimated waves, next 12 hours: up to 0.2 m.
| Time | 2 a.m. | 5 a.m. | 8 a.m. | 11 a.m. | 2 p.m. | 5 p.m. | 8 p.m. | 11 p.m. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wind km/h | W 10 | W 10 | W 10 | W 20 | W 20 | W 20 | NW 20 | NW 15 |
| Gusts | 40 | 40 | 40 | |||||
| Waves (est.) m | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |||
| Temp. °C | 10 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 8 |
| Precip. % | 40 | 40 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 0 | 0 |
Tonight: Partly cloudy with 40 percent chance of showers. Wind west 20 km/h becoming light this evening. Low 8.
Weather: Mauricie (local forecast), as of 1:03 a.m. EDT
Sun and moon
- Civil dawn
- 6:30 a.m.
- Sunrise
- 7:00 a.m.
- Sunset
- 6:14 p.m.
- Civil dusk
- 6:44 p.m.
- Moonrise
- 5:50 a.m.
- Moonset
- 5:32 p.m.
- Moon
- Waning crescent, 1% lit
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Water
Trophic status from the latest monitoring: mesotrophic.
Clarity was measured with a Secchi disk in 12 years between 2008 and 2025; the latest annual mean is 3.2 m.
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