Lac Papineau
45.8136° N, 74.7611° W
Shoreline and neighbouring water from open government data.
Download the map (SVG)Lac Papineau, Quebec. 45.8136° N, 74.7611° W
Not for navigation. Depths are from government surveys and may be outdated.
borealbound.ca/lakes/qc/lac-papineau/, 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 Papineau covers 12.8 km², making it larger than 96% of the 29,407 lakes in Quebec. It lies beside Vernet.
- Area
- 12.8 km²
- larger than 96% of the 29,407 lakes in Quebec
- Shoreline
- 77.8 km
- longer than 97% of the 29,407 lakes in Quebec
- Water clarity
- 6.7 mSecchi depth, 2025
- clearer than 90% of the 805 monitored lakes in Quebec
- Elevation
- 172 m
Today on the water
3.7 °C
Observed at Sainte-Agathe, as of 3:00 a.m. EDT
choppy Estimated waves, next 12 hours: up to 0.2 m. Around 12 p.m., wind from the west: the west shore is sheltered, waves build toward the east shore.
| Time | 4 a.m. | 7 a.m. | 10 a.m. | 1 p.m. | 4 p.m. | 7 p.m. | 10 p.m. | 1 a.m. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wind km/h | W 10 | W 10 | W 10 | W 20 | W 20 | W 10 | W 10 | NW 10 |
| Waves (est.) m | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | ||||
| Temp. °C | 6 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 |
| Precip. % | 60 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tonight: Partly cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers. Wind west 20 km/h becoming light this evening. Low 6.
Weather: Sainte-Agathe (local forecast), as of 3:02 a.m. EDT
Sun and moon
- Civil dawn
- 6:38 a.m.
- Sunrise
- 7:07 a.m.
- Sunset
- 6:23 p.m.
- Civil dusk
- 6:53 p.m.
- Moonrise
- 5:58 a.m.
- Moonset
- 5:42 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 10 years between 2016 and 2025; the latest annual mean is 6.7 m.
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