Photo: (WT-shared) Kazbar at wts wikivoyage · Public domainCache Creek is among the driest of Canadian towns: 273 mm of rain and snow a year
Nights in January average −9.8°C. By frosts alone, it ranks colder than 91% of Canadian towns. Rain or snow is most frequent in June and least in February. The heating season runs October to May: each of those months averages under 10°C.
These are not Cache Creek’s own readings: ECCC keeps no normals there, so the page uses Clinton, 39 km north.
A year in Cache Creek at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Cache Creek’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia beside it.
What a year in Cache Creek feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
Frost on 203 days, 20°C on 80
From September to May frost is routine, and in December it comes on almost every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 11 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
273 mm of precipitation in a typical year
252nd wettest of 256 towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia. On about 62 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Precipitation and snowfall: Kamloops, 63 km away (Clinton records no complete year of either).
63 cm of snow in a typical year
The snow season runs November to March; December brings the most, about 20 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Heating a home in Cache Creek
84% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
The count adds up, day by day, how far the mean temperature falls short of 18°C. In heating terms, homes need more heating than 63% of Canadian towns.
Living with Cache Creek’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Plan time outside for Jul: highs of 17–27°C and nights no colder than 8°C.
Parks & trails →Bitter wind chill, under −20, comes on about 19 days a year.
About 7 days a year turn sultry, with the humidex past 30.
A normal year has no blizzard, flood or heat wave in it; Cache Creek’s hazards page looks at those.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Clinton
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for Clinton are 3 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 39 km north |
| Station altitude | 1,057 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Kamloops, 63 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −35.9°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.2°C |
| Average wind | 7.6 km/h on average, most often from the south |
| Next-nearest location | Kamloops, 63 km |
How Cache Creek compares
Placed among 2,611 Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+, each on its nearest normals location; each dot is another location used in British Columbia.
Nearby towns’ climate
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Cache Creek’s own would show the same figures). Cache Creek has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 23–74 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cache Creek Clinton | 23.9°C | −9.8°C | 273 mm |
| Electoral Area I (Blue Sky Country), Thompson-Nicola 23 km · Lytton | 29.5°C 5.6°C warmer | −4.1°C 5.7°C milder | 273 mm |
| Electoral Area J (Copper Desert Country), Thompson-Nicola 48 km · Kamloops | 29.3°C 5.4°C warmer | −5.7°C 4.1°C milder | 273 mm |
Cache Creek weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −3.2°C | −9.8°C | −6.5°C | 22 mm | 19 cm |
| February | 0.2°C | −9.0°C | −4.4°C | 12 mm | 8 cm |
| March | 5.2°C | −5.7°C | −0.2°C | 15 mm | 5 cm |
| April | 11.0°C | −2.2°C | 4.4°C | 13 mm | under 1 cm |
| May | 16.5°C | 2.2°C | 9.3°C | 28 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 19.8°C | 5.7°C | 12.7°C | 36 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 23.9°C | 8.4°C | 16.2°C | 30 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 23.7°C | 7.7°C | 15.7°C | 19 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 18.0°C | 3.7°C | 10.9°C | 24 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 9.4°C | −1.1°C | 4.2°C | 23 mm | 1 cm |
| November | 1.2°C | −5.7°C | −2.3°C | 26 mm | 10 cm |
| December | −3.6°C | −9.6°C | −6.6°C | 26 mm | 20 cm |
| Year | 10.2°C | −1.3°C | 4.5°C | 273 mm | 63 cm |
February strays furthest from its normal year to year, by 3.4°C; June the least
Each bar spans a month’s coldest and warmest readings over thirty years; March’s run from −28.2°C in 2009 to 18.9°C in 2016.
Where Cache Creek’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals, Clinton: the nearest of its locations with every month’s temperatures.
- 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 Cache Creek’s climate
How warm does Cache Creek get in summer?
Expect highs near 23.9°C in July, the hottest month on average.
How cold does Cache Creek get in winter?
A typical January night falls to −9.8°C, the year’s low point.
How much rain and snow does Cache Creek get?
Measured as water, a year brings 273 mm: 36 mm in June, the wettest month, and 12 mm in February, the driest.
Are these figures for Cache Creek itself?
No, they come from Clinton; ECCC keeps no 1991–2020 normals in Cache Creek itself.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Cache Creek →
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).