Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainFew Canadian towns have warmer summer afternoons than Electoral Area B, North Okanagan
In January the night’s low is typically −6.4°C. Winters are mild: January nights here are milder than in 89% of Canadian towns. Winter and summer sit 35°C apart. Have the furnace checked before October to April, the months that average under 10°C.
These are not Electoral Area B, North Okanagan’s own readings: ECCC keeps no normals there, so the page uses Vernon, 6.7 km south-west.
A year in Electoral Area B, North Okanagan at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Electoral Area B, North Okanagan’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia beside it.
What a year in Electoral Area B, North Okanagan feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on 135 days, 20°C on 123
Frost comes from October to April; in January almost every night freezes. Some 29 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
Rain and melted snow: about 447 mm a year
The most falls in June, the least in March. About 97 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
About 93 cm of snow a year
The snow season runs November to March; December brings the most, about 31 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Heating a home in Electoral Area B, North Okanagan
91% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Heating degree days total each day’s gap between its mean temperature and 18°C. Over a year, a home here needs less heating than 86% of Canadian towns.
Living with Electoral Area B, North Okanagan’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Mild days and mild nights together (17–27°C by day, 8°C or more at night) belong to Jun and Sep.
Parks & trails →Wind chill falls below −20 on about 6 days a year: cover skin and dress in layers.
About 37 days a year turn sultry, with the humidex past 30.
For blizzards, floods and wildfire, turn to Electoral Area B, North Okanagan’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Vernon
ECCC builds the Vernon normals from 4 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 6.7 km south-west |
| Station altitude | 427 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −30.5°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 39.5°C |
| Average wind | 6.0 km/h on average, most often from the east |
| Next-nearest location | Kelowna, 40 km |
How Electoral Area B, North Okanagan compares
Compared with 2,611 towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more across Canada; the dots mark the other normals locations in British Columbia.
Nearby towns’ climate
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Electoral Area B, North Okanagan’s would only repeat its figures. No closer places have figures: these lie 26–39 km from Electoral Area B, North Okanagan.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area B, North Okanagan Vernon | 28.4°C | −6.4°C | 447 mm |
| Electoral Area D, Columbia-Shuswap 26 km · Salmon Arm | 28.3°C about the same | −5.6°C 0.8°C milder | 654 mm |
| Lake Country 30 km · Kelowna | 28.5°C about the same | −5.9°C 0.5°C milder | 447 mm |
Electoral Area B, North Okanagan weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −0.5°C | −6.4°C | −3.5°C | 37 mm | 28 cm |
| February | 2.8°C | −5.0°C | −1.1°C | 25 mm | 9 cm |
| March | 9.0°C | −1.2°C | 3.9°C | 25 mm | 6 cm |
| April | 15.1°C | 2.3°C | 8.7°C | 26 mm | under 1 cm |
| May | 20.9°C | 6.8°C | 13.9°C | 45 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 23.8°C | 10.2°C | 17.0°C | 55 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 28.4°C | 12.7°C | 20.6°C | 37 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 27.9°C | 12.1°C | 20.0°C | 30 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 21.7°C | 8.2°C | 15.0°C | 34 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 12.4°C | 2.9°C | 7.6°C | 41 mm | 0 cm |
| November | 4.5°C | −1.8°C | 1.4°C | 49 mm | 18 cm |
| December | −0.2°C | −5.8°C | −3.0°C | 44 mm | 31 cm |
| Year | 13.8°C | 2.9°C | 8.4°C | 447 mm | 93 cm |
Two years in three, January’s average lands within 2.8°C of normal, against the steadier April
The thirty-year records stretch furthest in February: a low of −28.0°C in 1996 and a high of 13.8°C in 2016.
Where Electoral Area B, North Okanagan’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the Canadian Climate Normals, 1991–2020, at Vernon (the closest location with all twelve months of temperatures).
- Comparisons: the towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ across Canada, each on its nearest normals location, without the city totals or the reserves.
- 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 Electoral Area B, North Okanagan’s climate
How warm does Electoral Area B, North Okanagan get in summer?
Midsummer means July, with afternoons near 28.4°C on a typical day.
How cold does Electoral Area B, North Okanagan get in winter?
The year’s coldest nights belong to January, at about −6.4°C.
How much rain and snow does Electoral Area B, North Okanagan get?
Measured as water, a year brings 447 mm: 55 mm in June, the wettest month, and 25 mm in March, the driest.
Are these figures for Electoral Area B, North Okanagan itself?
Not exactly. Electoral Area B, North Okanagan lacks a normals station, so Vernon supplies the figures.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Electoral Area B, North Okanagan →
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).