Hardly any Canadian towns collect more precipitation than Mount Currie: 2,344 mm a year
Nights in January average −4.9°C. Rain or snow is most frequent in November and least in July. In July, afternoons here are warmer than in 97% of Canadian towns. Expect about 118 frosty starts a year, days when the air falls to freezing.
The nearest ECCC normals location to Mount Currie is Pemberton, 6.6 km south-west, and every figure on this page is its.
A year in Mount Currie at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Mount Currie’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia beside it.
What a year in Mount Currie feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
About 118 frosts and 119 warm days a year
The frost season runs October to April, peaking in December at about 25 nights. Some 32 days a year climb past 30°C.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
About 2,344 mm of rain and snow a year
2nd wettest of 256 towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia. About 148 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Pemberton publishes no full year of precipitation, so these figures come from Squamish, 71 km away.
Heating a home in Mount Currie
91% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
ECCC sums, over the year, how many degrees each day’s average falls short of 18°C. A house here needs less heating than 88% of Canadian towns.
Living with Mount Currie’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Warm afternoons without cold nights, 17–27°C and 8°C or more, mark Jun.
Parks & trails →A wind chill below −20 is part of about 3 days a year here.
Count on some 38 humid days a year with the humidex past 30.
Averages smooth over blizzards, ice storms, floods and heat waves; Mount Currie’s hazards page covers the risks.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Pemberton
ECCC builds the Pemberton normals from 2 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 6.6 km south-west |
| Station altitude | 203 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Squamish, 71 km |
| Snowfall from | No location within 100 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −22.6°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 40.6°C |
| Average wind | 3.5 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Squamish, 71 km |
How Mount Currie 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 Mount Currie’s would only repeat its figures. No closer places have figures: these lie 66–76 km from Mount Currie.
Mount Currie weather by month
Average daily high and low, mean temperature and precipitation by month, 1991–2020.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −0.3°C | −4.9°C | −2.6°C | 379 mm |
| February | 4.1°C | −3.4°C | 0.4°C | 195 mm |
| March | 9.7°C | −0.8°C | 4.5°C | 246 mm |
| April | 15.5°C | 2.6°C | 9.1°C | 150 mm |
| May | 21.0°C | 6.2°C | 13.7°C | 88 mm |
| June | 23.7°C | 9.4°C | 16.6°C | 67 mm |
| July | 28.1°C | 11.5°C | 19.8°C | 48 mm |
| August | 27.7°C | 11.0°C | 19.4°C | 54 mm |
| September | 22.2°C | 7.7°C | 15.0°C | 125 mm |
| October | 12.9°C | 3.5°C | 8.2°C | 271 mm |
| November | 4.1°C | −0.7°C | 1.8°C | 383 mm |
| December | −0.3°C | −4.4°C | −2.3°C | 340 mm |
| Year | 14.1°C | 3.2°C | 8.6°C | 2,344 mm |
January varies most from one year to the next (2.4°C), August least
March has the widest record range, −15.2°C in 1991 to 24.7°C in 2016; the tick on each bar is the month’s normal.
Where Mount Currie’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 normals from ECCC for Pemberton, its nearest location with complete temperatures.
- Other locations: a location missing months of precipitation or snow is filled from the nearest that has them all, never mixed month by month.
- Comparisons: every Canadian town and neighbourhood of 2,500 or more, each read from its own nearest location; city totals and reserves are left out.
- Not on this page: snow, with no complete snowfall normals within 100 km, sunshine, which ECCC published for no location, and any height adjustment.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Mount Currie’s climate
How warm does Mount Currie get in summer?
Midsummer means July, with afternoons near 28.1°C on a typical day.
How cold does Mount Currie get in winter?
Lows sink to −4.9°C on an average January night.
How much rain and snow does Mount Currie get?
Measured as water, a year brings 2,344 mm: 383 mm in November, the wettest month, and 48 mm in July, the driest.
Are these figures for Mount Currie itself?
They are borrowed from Pemberton, the nearest place to Mount Currie where ECCC publishes 1991–2020 normals.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Mount Currie →
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).