Photo: Alasdair McLellan · CC BY-SA 3.0Few Canadian towns have milder winter nights than Cobble Hill
July afternoons average 22.7°C. Of all months, January brings the most precipitation and July the least. Summers stay cool: July afternoons here are cooler than in 94% of Canadian towns. Have the furnace checked before November to April, the months that average under 10°C.
These are not Cobble Hill’s own readings: ECCC keeps no normals there, so the page uses Victoria (Airport), 12 km south-east.
A year in Cobble Hill at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Cobble Hill’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia beside it.
What a year in Cobble Hill feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on 45 days, 20°C on 83
Frosts fall from November to April; January has the most, about 10.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
Rain and melted snow: about 901 mm a year
Some 119 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 39 cm in a normal year
Snow falls from November to March, most of all in December (about 12 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Cobble Hill
84% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: November to April.
One degree below 18°C for one day makes one heating degree day; the year’s days are added together. By this count, homes here need less heating than 95% of Canadian towns.
Living with Cobble Hill’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Seedlings can go out once the average last frost, around 4 April, has passed; autumn’s first, near 4 November, ends a season of about 213 days.
Warm afternoons without cold nights, 17–27°C and 8°C or more, mark Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →About 6 days a year turn sultry, with the humidex past 30.
Storms, floods and heat waves sit outside these normals; Cobble Hill’s hazards page covers them.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Victoria (Airport)
ECCC builds the Victoria (Airport) normals from 2 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 12 km south-east |
| Station altitude | 20 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −10.5°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 36.3°C |
| Average wind | 9.7 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Victoria (University), 33 km |
How Cobble Hill 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 Cobble Hill’s own would show the same figures). Cobble Hill has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 24–30 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cobble Hill Victoria (Airport) | 22.7°C | 1.6°C | 901 mm |
| Southern Gulf Islands 24 km · Saturna CAPMON | 21.6°C 1.1°C cooler | 2.3°C 0.7°C milder | 802 mm |
| View Royal 28 km · Victoria Gonzales (City) | 20.6°C 2.1°C cooler | 3.8°C 2.2°C milder | 675 mm |
| Saanich 29 km · Victoria (University) | 23.7°C 1.0°C warmer | 3.4°C 1.8°C milder | 661 mm |
Cobble Hill 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 | 7.5°C | 1.6°C | 4.6°C | 155 mm | 11 cm |
| February | 8.7°C | 1.4°C | 5.0°C | 85 mm | 7 cm |
| March | 10.8°C | 2.7°C | 6.8°C | 80 mm | 4 cm |
| April | 13.7°C | 4.6°C | 9.1°C | 48 mm | 1 cm |
| May | 17.5°C | 7.6°C | 12.6°C | 37 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 20.2°C | 10.1°C | 15.2°C | 29 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 22.7°C | 11.7°C | 17.2°C | 20 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 22.6°C | 11.6°C | 17.1°C | 24 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 19.7°C | 9.2°C | 14.5°C | 36 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 14.3°C | 6.0°C | 10.2°C | 96 mm | under 1 cm |
| November | 9.9°C | 3.0°C | 6.5°C | 146 mm | 4 cm |
| December | 7.3°C | 1.5°C | 4.4°C | 146 mm | 12 cm |
| Year | 14.6°C | 5.9°C | 10.3°C | 901 mm | 39 cm |
From 2.1°C to 33.5°C: June’s coldest and warmest days since 1991
The month to count on least is February: one year in three its average strays more than 1.5°C from 5.0°C. August moves least, typically by 0.7°C.
Where Cobble Hill’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the Canadian Climate Normals, 1991–2020, at Victoria (Airport) (the closest location with all twelve months of temperatures).
- Comparisons: every place of 2,500+ in Canada but the city hubs and the reserves, each on its nearest ECCC location.
- Not on this page: sunshine, not in ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals, and the effect of the town’s height, for which there is no figure.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Cobble Hill’s climate
How warm does Cobble Hill get in summer?
A normal July afternoon tops out at about 22.7°C, the year’s high point.
How cold does Cobble Hill get in winter?
At its coldest, in February, the normal low is 1.4°C.
How much rain and snow does Cobble Hill get?
Some 901 mm falls in a year. Most of it comes in January (155 mm), the least in July (20 mm).
How long does snow stay on the ground?
Snow lies on the ground for about 8 days in a normal year.
Are these figures for Cobble Hill itself?
Not directly: Cobble Hill has no ECCC normals of its own, and Victoria (Airport) stands in for it.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Cobble Hill →
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).