There is almost no snow left on the streets of Montreal—just a few mounds of hardened snow, soiled by dust from the windstorms of early April. As every year, the city’s sidewalks are thawing and revealing six months of accumulated trash and gravel.
In addition to a major spring cleaning campaign launched in early April 2026 by the City of Montreal, a little rain won’t hurt to wash the island’s streets and help the May tulips and forget-me-nots grow faster.
7-day weather forecast – nearly 50 mm of rain
Wednesday, April 15: 2 millimeters of rain expected / high 12°C, low 9°C
Thursday, April 16: 15 millimeters of rain expected / high 17°C, low 8°C
Friday, April 17: 4 millimeters of rain expected / high 16°C, low 7°C
Saturday, April 18: 5 millimeters of rain expected (with sunshine in the morning) / high 19°C, low 13°C
Sunday, April 19: 10 millimeters of rain expected and 1 cm of snow overnight / high 13°C, low -1°C
Monday, April 20: no rain expected / high 2°C, low -2°C
Tuesday, April 21: no rain expected / high 4°C, low 0°C
Late April—the first tulips of the year
The good news is that the following week—from April 21 to 28, 2026—will be a true spring weekwith plenty of sunshine, temperatures around 10–13°C, and cool but frost-free nights.
It will be during the last week of April that the flowers will bloom in Montreal…
- Daffodils(Narcissus)
- Tulips, orTulipa inLatin
We’re talking here about early-blooming tulips, the first to bloom in Quebec. They bloom throughout May and into early June.
The originof the word “tulip” is unclear, but one possible explanation is that it comes from the Turkish word for “turban” because it was fashionable to wear these flowers on one’s turban in the Ottoman Empire. It is traditional to give tulips to one’s mother for Mother’s Day, which falls on Sunday, May 10 this year (also worth noting in your calendar).
There are around 120 varieties of tulips, and they come in a range of colors, from white to yellow, pink to mauve, and orange to red
