Petit lac Saint-François
45.5384° N, 72.0374° W
Shoreline and neighbouring water from open government data.
Download the map (SVG)Petit lac Saint-François, Quebec. 45.5384° N, 72.0374° W
Not for navigation. Depths are from government surveys and may be outdated.
borealbound.ca/lakes/qc/petit-lac-saint-francois-near-sherbrooke/, 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).
Petit lac Saint-François covers 0.8 km², making it larger than 71% of the 29,407 lakes in Quebec. It lies 3.9 km south of Windsor.
- Area
- 0.8 km²
- larger than 71% of the 29,407 lakes in Quebec
- Shoreline
- 4.8 km
- longer than 59% of the 29,407 lakes in Quebec
- Water clarity
- 0.7 mSecchi depth, 2025
- less clear than 100% of the 805 monitored lakes in Quebec
- Elevation
- 201 m
Today on the water
3 °C
Observed at Val-des-Sources, as of 4:00 a.m. EDT
choppy Estimated waves, next 12 hours: up to 0.2 m. Around 9 a.m., wind from the west: the west shore is sheltered, waves build toward the east shore.
| Time | 5 a.m. | 8 a.m. | 11 a.m. | 2 p.m. | 5 p.m. | 8 p.m. | 11 p.m. | 2 a.m. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wind km/h | W 10 | W 10 | W 20 | W 20 | W 20 | W 20 | W 15 | W 10 |
| Gusts km/h | 40 | 40 | 40 | |||||
| Waves (est.) m | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | |||
| Temp. °C | 9 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 2 |
| Precip. % | 60 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 0 | 0 |
Tonight: Mainly cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers. Risk of a thunderstorm this evening. Wind west 20 km/h gusting to 40 becoming light this evening. Low 8.
Weather: Val-des-Sources (local forecast), as of 4:01 a.m. EDT
Sun and moon
- Civil dawn
- 6:27 a.m.
- Sunrise
- 6:56 a.m.
- Sunset
- 6:13 p.m.
- Civil dusk
- 6:42 p.m.
- Moonrise
- 5:47 a.m.
- Moonset
- 5:31 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: hypereutrophic.
Clarity was measured with a Secchi disk in 14 years between 2010 and 2025; the latest annual mean is 0.7 m.
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