Photo: Ferdilouw · CC BY-SA 4.0Hardly any Canadian towns see hotter July days than Keremeos
January nights here settle around −3.2°C. Counting rain and snow together, it is drier than almost every Canadian town. Temperatures cover 32°C across the year, low to high. Heating does most of its work from October to April, in months below 10°C on average.
The nearest ECCC normals location to Keremeos is Penticton, 32 km north-east, and every figure on this page is its.
A year in Keremeos at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Keremeos’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia beside it.
What a year in Keremeos feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
About 109 frosts and 133 warm days a year
Frosts fall from October to April; December has the most, about 21. Heat of 30°C or more comes on about 29 days a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
About 344 mm of rain and snow a year
June is the wettest month and February the driest. About 75 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
62 cm of snow in a typical year
From November to March snow is likely; December is the peak, at about 20 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Keremeos
92% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Each day the mean sits under 18°C adds its shortfall; a year’s total is its heating degree days. In heating terms, homes need less heating than 93% of Canadian towns.
Living with Keremeos’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
The frost-free stretch runs from about 30 April to about 8 October, some 160 days in a normal year.
Highs of 17–27°C with nights of 8°C or more come in Jun and Sep.
Parks & trails →Plan for about 4 days a year with a wind chill below −20.
Plan shade and water for about 38 days a year above 30 on the humidex.
Bad-weather days, from blizzards to floods, get their own page for Keremeos: the hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Penticton
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for Penticton are 2 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 32 km north-east |
| Station altitude | 344 m |
| Completeness | at least 25 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −21.6°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 38.6°C |
| Average wind | 11.5 km/h on average, most often from the north |
| Next-nearest location | Osoyoos, 34 km |
How Keremeos 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
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Keremeos’s would only repeat its figures. Keremeos has no close neighbour with figures; the nearest is 8 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keremeos Penticton | 29.2°C | −3.2°C | 344 mm |
| Electoral Area B, Okanagan-Similkameen 8.3 km · Osoyoos | 31.6°C 2.4°C warmer | −3.8°C 0.6°C colder | 344 mm |
Keremeos 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 | 1.6°C | −3.2°C | −0.8°C | 28 mm | 19 cm |
| February | 4.6°C | −3.1°C | 0.8°C | 19 mm | 9 cm |
| March | 10.2°C | −0.6°C | 4.9°C | 23 mm | 5 cm |
| April | 15.7°C | 2.4°C | 9.1°C | 26 mm | 1 cm |
| May | 21.4°C | 7.1°C | 14.3°C | 38 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 24.6°C | 10.6°C | 17.6°C | 44 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 29.2°C | 13.5°C | 21.4°C | 28 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 28.4°C | 12.8°C | 20.6°C | 27 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 22.6°C | 8.5°C | 15.6°C | 25 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 14.3°C | 3.5°C | 8.9°C | 29 mm | under 1 cm |
| November | 6.7°C | 0.0°C | 3.4°C | 28 mm | 8 cm |
| December | 2.1°C | −2.8°C | −0.4°C | 30 mm | 20 cm |
| Year | 15.1°C | 4.1°C | 9.6°C | 344 mm | 62 cm |
February strays furthest from its normal year to year, by 2.4°C; August the least
The thirty-year records stretch furthest in May: a low of −4.2°C in 2013 and a high of 33.8°C in 2006.
Where Keremeos’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals at Penticton, the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals.
- Comparisons: the 2,500-plus towns and neighbourhoods of Canada, each read from its closest normals location; whole cities and reserves aren’t counted.
- 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 Keremeos’s climate
How warm does Keremeos get in summer?
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 29.2°C.
How cold does Keremeos get in winter?
Of all twelve months, January has the coldest nights, about −3.2°C.
How much rain and snow does Keremeos get?
The yearly total is about 344 mm. June gets 44 mm, the most of any month; February gets 19 mm, the least.
How long does snow stay on the ground?
Snow lies on the ground for about 25 days in a normal year.
Are these figures for Keremeos itself?
They come from Penticton, which ECCC uses as the nearest normals location for Keremeos.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Keremeos →
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).