Few Canadian towns get fewer frosts than Heights
Expect July afternoons of about 23.0°C. By precipitation alone, it ranks wetter than 97% of Canadian towns. A year here swings 20°C from midwinter lows to midsummer highs. Plan for rain or snow on about 142 days a year, the days with 1 mm or more.
ECCC publishes no normals for Heights itself; the figures are those of Vancouver (Harbour), 8.6 km west.
A year in Heights at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Heights’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia beside it.
What a year in Heights feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
17 frost days and 87 days above 20°C a year
Frosts fall from November to March; January has the most, about 6.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
Rain and melted snow: about 1,537 mm a year
The most falls in November, the least in July.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 37 cm in a normal year
The snow season runs November to March; December brings the most, about 14 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Vancouver (Harbour) publishes no full year of snowfall, so these figures come from Vancouver International (Airport), 16 km away.
Heating a home in Heights
89% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: November to March.
Behind the figure: the degrees each day’s mean falls under 18°C, summed for the year. Over a year, a home here needs less heating than almost every Canadian town.
Living with Heights’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Afternoons of 17–27°C and nights of at least 8°C arrive in May, Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Extremes don’t show in averages: floods, wildfire smoke and ice storms are on Heights’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Vancouver (Harbour)
The page’s figures are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Vancouver (Harbour), one of its 450 normals locations.
| Distance from the town | 8.6 km west |
| Station altitude | 3 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Vancouver International (Airport), 16 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −9.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 34.9°C |
| Next-nearest location | Vancouver International (Airport), 16 km |
How Heights compares
Against the 2,611 Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, each read from its own normals location; the dots are the other locations those towns use in British Columbia.
Nearby towns’ climate
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Heights’s own would show the same figures). The nearest places to Heights with figures are 10–16 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heights Vancouver (Harbour) | 23.0°C | 3.3°C | 1,537 mm |
| New Westminster 10 km · Pitt Meadows | 25.0°C 2.0°C warmer | 0.5°C 2.8°C colder | 1,649 mm |
| Musqueam 2 16 km · Vancouver International (Airport) | 22.4°C 0.6°C cooler | 1.4°C 1.9°C colder | 1,160 mm |
Heights weather by month
Average daily high and low, mean temperature, rain and snow (as water) and snowfall by month, 1991–2020.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.4°C | 3.3°C | 5.3°C | 237 mm | 12 cm |
| February | 8.4°C | 3.3°C | 5.9°C | 117 mm | 5 cm |
| March | 10.5°C | 4.6°C | 7.6°C | 163 mm | 3 cm |
| April | 13.9°C | 6.9°C | 10.4°C | 118 mm | under 1 cm |
| May | 17.8°C | 10.2°C | 14.0°C | 73 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 20.2°C | 12.8°C | 16.5°C | 66 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 23.0°C | 14.9°C | 19.0°C | 44 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 23.0°C | 14.8°C | 18.9°C | 49 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 19.4°C | 12.1°C | 15.8°C | 71 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 13.9°C | 8.6°C | 11.2°C | 157 mm | under 1 cm |
| November | 9.7°C | 5.3°C | 7.5°C | 245 mm | 3 cm |
| December | 7.1°C | 3.2°C | 5.2°C | 200 mm | 14 cm |
| Year | 14.5°C | 8.3°C | 11.4°C | 1,537 mm | 37 cm |
The month with the widest range: June, −2.8°C to 30.6°C
Two years in three, January’s average falls within 1.5°C of its normal of 5.3°C; July keeps to within 0.8°C.
Where Heights’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s normals for Vancouver (Harbour), 1991–2020, chosen as the nearest location with a full temperature record.
- Other locations: precipitation and snowfall come from the nearest location that publishes all twelve months of them, as named above.
- Comparisons: Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of at least 2,500, each placed by its nearest location (city totals and reserves excluded).
- Not on this page: a sunshine figure (ECCC published none for 1991–2020) and any lapse-rate correction for height, as the town has no elevation here.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Heights’s climate
How warm does Heights get in summer?
Midsummer means July, with afternoons near 23.0°C on a typical day.
How cold does Heights get in winter?
Overnight lows average 3.2°C in December, the coldest month.
How much rain and snow does Heights get?
1,537 mm a year counting snow as water. The wettest month is November (245 mm); the driest, July (44 mm).
Are these figures for Heights itself?
Not as such: Vancouver (Harbour) is the nearest normals location, and Heights has none.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Heights →
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).