Montréal, a satellite campus for the university's faculty of medicine. Culture Trois-Rivières hosts the FestiVoix de Trois-Rivières, a 10-day summer music festival which attracts in excess of 300,000 visitors annually. The city also hosts the Festival International de la Poésie – an international poetry festival – as well as the Festival International Danse Encore, and the MetalFest de Trois-Rivières every November. In 2009, Trois-Rivières was designated as the 2009 Cultural Capital of Canada for cities having a population of 125,000 or more. Trois-Rivières is officially the "Poetry Capital of Quebec". Numerous plaques displaying poetic verses are installed throughout the centre of the city. An International Festival of Poetry is held annually in the first week of October. Climate The area has a humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb). Winters are long, cold, and snowy: the January high is , with lows dropping to on 27 nights per year and to on 2.9 nights. Snowfall averages , with reliable snow cover from December to March. Summers are warm, with an average July high of , and high temperatures reach on 5.5 days per summer. Spring and autumn are short and crisp. Precipitation averages , and is the greatest during summer. The highest temperature ever recorded in Trois-Rivières was on 17 July 1953. The coldest temperature ever recorded was on 5 February 1923. Demographics In the 2021 Canadian census conducted by Statistics Canada, Trois-Rivières had a population of 139,163 living in 66,822 of its 70,411 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 134,413. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. In 2021, the median age in Trois-Rivières was 47.2 compared to 41.6 in all of Canada. 26.3% of the population was of retirement age (65 and older) compared to 19% in all of Canada. The Trois-Rivières metropolitan area as defined by Statistics Canada comprises Trois-Rivières itself and six other municipalities. Saint-Maurice, Yamachiche, Champlain and Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes are all located on the North shore and except for Saint-Luc (which is separated from it by Saint-Maurice) are also directly adjacent to trois-Rivières. The city of Bécancour, Quebec and the enclaved indian reservation of Wôlinak are located opposite Trois-Rivières on the South shore of the Saint Lawrence River. In 2021 the population of the census metropolitan area was 161,489 in a land area of giving a population density of In 2021 the population centre had 128,057