Photo: Kayoty · CC BY-SA 3.0Hardly any Canadian towns collect less precipitation than Barriere: 273 mm a year
On a normal January night the air cools to about −5.7°C. Its July heat outdoes that of almost every Canadian town. June is the wettest month, February the driest. Ice scrapers and block heaters earn their keep on roughly 116 days a year at 0°C or below.
Barriere has no ECCC normals station nearby: the figures come from Kamloops, 58 km south, so read them as the wider area’s climate.
A year in Barriere at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Barriere’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia beside it.
What a year in Barriere feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on 116 days, 20°C on 135
Frost comes from October to April, most of all in December (about 26 nights). Heat of 30°C or more comes on about 36 days a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
About 273 mm of rain and snow a year
252nd wettest of 256 towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia. Some 62 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 63 cm in a normal year
Expect snow from November to March, with about 20 cm in December, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Barriere
93% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Heating degree days total each day’s gap between its mean temperature and 18°C. Over a year, a home here needs less heating than 92% of Canadian towns.
Living with Barriere’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Plant out after about 25 April; the first frost of autumn usually arrives near 12 October, leaving roughly 170 days without frost.
Warm afternoons without cold nights, 17–27°C and 8°C or more, mark May, Jun and Sep.
Parks & trails →About 9 days a year bring a wind chill under −20, when bare skin chills fast.
Expect around 37 sticky days a year with the humidex above 30.
Thirty-year normals hide the storms and the extremes: the hazards page has Barriere’s risks.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Kamloops
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for Kamloops are 3 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 58 km south |
| Station altitude | 345 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −28.6°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 40.4°C |
| Average wind | 10.7 km/h on average, most often from the east |
| Next-nearest location | Salmon Arm, 84 km |
How Barriere compares
Compared with 2,611 towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more across Canada; the dots mark the other normals locations in British Columbia.
Nearby towns’ climate
Places around Barriere whose figures come from another normals location. No closer places have figures: these lie 47–64 km from Barriere.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barriere Kamloops | 29.3°C | −5.7°C | 273 mm |
| Electoral Area A (Wells Gray Country), Thompson-Nicola 47 km · Blue River | 24.6°C 4.7°C cooler | −10.6°C 4.9°C colder | 1,040 mm |
| Chase 51 km · Salmon Arm | 28.3°C 1.0°C cooler | −5.6°C about the same | 654 mm |
Barriere weather by month
Month by month, 1991–2020: the usual high, low and mean, the rain and snow, and the snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 0.4°C | −5.7°C | −2.7°C | 22 mm | 19 cm |
| February | 3.9°C | −4.3°C | −0.2°C | 12 mm | 8 cm |
| March | 10.7°C | −0.5°C | 5.2°C | 15 mm | 5 cm |
| April | 16.5°C | 3.2°C | 9.9°C | 13 mm | under 1 cm |
| May | 22.0°C | 8.1°C | 15.0°C | 28 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 25.1°C | 11.6°C | 18.4°C | 36 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 29.3°C | 14.5°C | 21.9°C | 30 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 28.8°C | 13.7°C | 21.3°C | 19 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 22.8°C | 9.2°C | 16.0°C | 24 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 13.6°C | 3.5°C | 8.6°C | 23 mm | 1 cm |
| November | 5.8°C | −1.1°C | 2.3°C | 26 mm | 10 cm |
| December | 1.0°C | −5.0°C | −2.0°C | 26 mm | 20 cm |
| Year | 15.0°C | 3.9°C | 9.5°C | 273 mm | 63 cm |
A January here can run warm or cold, its average moving by about 3.2°C; the steadiest month is April
The thirty-year records stretch furthest in November: a low of −24.9°C in 2006 and a high of 21.3°C in 2016.
Where Barriere’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: 1991–2020 normals for Kamloops from ECCC’s climate data site, the nearest location with every month of temperature.
- Comparisons: all Canadian places of 2,500 or more except city totals and reserves, each read the same way.
- Not on this page: sunshine, which none of ECCC’s 450 locations publishes for 1991–2020, and the town’s own height above sea level, so no figure is adjusted for altitude.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Barriere’s climate
How warm does Barriere get in summer?
Afternoons average 29.3°C in July, the warmest time of year.
How cold does Barriere get in winter?
Winter bottoms out in January, with lows near −5.7°C.
How much rain and snow does Barriere get?
The year adds up to 273 mm. June is the peak month (36 mm) and February the low one (12 mm).
How long does snow stay on the ground?
There is 1 cm of snow or more on the ground on roughly 48 days a year.
Are these figures for Barriere itself?
Not really: Kamloops, the closest location with normals, lies well away from Barriere.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Barriere →
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).