Lac Prévost
47.7306° N, 79.2935° W
Shoreline and neighbouring water from open government data.
Download the map (SVG)Lac Prévost, Quebec. 47.7306° N, 79.2935° W
Not for navigation. Depths are from government surveys and may be outdated.
borealbound.ca/lakes/qc/lac-prevost/, 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 Prévost covers 2.09 km², making it larger than 84% of the 29,407 lakes in Quebec. It lies 8.7 km north of Paquin.
- Area
- 2.09 km²
- larger than 84% of the 29,407 lakes in Quebec
- Shoreline
- 11 km
- longer than 80% of the 29,407 lakes in Quebec
- Water clarity
- 1.1 mSecchi depth, 2023
- less clear than 98% of the 805 monitored lakes in Quebec
- Elevation
- 289 m
Today on the water
4.1 °C
Observed at Earlton, as of 5:00 a.m. EDT
choppy Estimated waves, next 12 hours: up to 0.2 m. Around 8 a.m., wind from the northwest: the northwest shore is sheltered, waves build toward the southeast 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 | var. 5 | NW 20 | W 20 | NW 20 | W 10 | var. 5 | S 10 | S 10 |
| Gusts km/h | 40 | 40 | ||||||
| Waves (est.) m | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |||
| Temp. °C | 3 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 1 | -1 |
| Precip. % | 30 | 30 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tonight: Cloudy with 30 percent chance of showers. Wind west 20 km/h gusting to 40 becoming light late this evening. Low plus 3.
Weather: Earlton (local forecast), as of 5:02 a.m. EDT
Sun and moon
- Civil dawn
- 6:56 a.m.
- Sunrise
- 7:27 a.m.
- Sunset
- 6:40 p.m.
- Civil dusk
- 7:11 p.m.
- Moonrise
- 6:18 a.m.
- Moonset
- 5:58 p.m.
- Moon
- Waning crescent, 1% lit
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Water
Trophic status from the latest monitoring: meso-eutrophic (transition).
Clarity was measured with a Secchi disk in 6 years between 2016 and 2023; the latest annual mean is 1.1 m.
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