Okanagan Falls sits near the top of Canadian towns for July heat
Deep winter brings January lows near −3.2°C. The gap between a January night and a July afternoon is 32°C. By precipitation alone, it ranks drier than almost every Canadian town. Plan time outside for June and September, when highs sit at 23–25°C.
Borrowed figures: Okanagan Falls has no normals station, so these come from Penticton, 11 km north.
A year in Okanagan Falls at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Okanagan Falls’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia beside it.
What a year in Okanagan Falls feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
Frost on 109 days, 20°C on 133
Frost comes from October to April, most of all in December (about 21 nights). About 29 days a year top 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 344 mm a year
June is the wettest month and February the driest. Some 75 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 62 cm in a normal year
Snow falls from November to March, most of all in December (about 20 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Okanagan Falls
92% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Measured against 18°C: each day’s shortfall in mean temperature, added over twelve months. In heating terms, homes need less heating than 93% of Canadian towns.
Living with Okanagan Falls’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Plant out after about 30 April; the first frost of autumn usually arrives near 8 October, leaving roughly 160 days without frost.
Afternoons of 17–27°C and nights of at least 8°C arrive in Jun and Sep.
Parks & trails →A wind chill below −20 is part of about 4 days a year here.
On some 38 days a year the humidex climbs past 30.
Thirty years of averages say little about one bad storm; Okanagan Falls’s hazards page does.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Penticton
Penticton is a composite: ECCC joins 2 stations’ readings to make its 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 11 km north |
| 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, 38 km |
How Okanagan Falls 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 Okanagan Falls’s would only repeat its figures. Okanagan Falls has no close neighbour with figures; the nearest is 16 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Okanagan Falls Penticton | 29.2°C | −3.2°C | 344 mm |
| Electoral Area C, Okanagan-Similkameen 16 km · Osoyoos | 31.6°C 2.4°C warmer | −3.8°C 0.6°C colder | 344 mm |
Okanagan Falls 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 |
The month with the widest range: May, −4.2°C to 33.8°C
Two years in three, February’s average falls within 2.4°C of its normal of 0.8°C; August keeps to within 0.9°C.
Where Okanagan Falls’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: 1991–2020 normals for Penticton from ECCC’s climate data site, the nearest location with every month of temperature.
- Comparisons: Canada’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ (no city totals, no reserves), each through its own nearest location.
- Not on this page: sunshine, absent from every 1991–2020 location, and an altitude correction, for want of the town’s own elevation.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Okanagan Falls’s climate
How warm does Okanagan Falls get in summer?
Midsummer means July, with afternoons near 29.2°C on a typical day.
How cold does Okanagan Falls get in winter?
Lows sink to −3.2°C on an average January night.
How much rain and snow does Okanagan Falls get?
About 344 mm a year, rain and melted snow together. June is the wettest month (44 mm) and February the driest (19 mm).
How long does snow stay on the ground?
The ground is white, with 1 cm or more, on some 25 days a year.
Are these figures for Okanagan Falls itself?
They are borrowed from Penticton, the nearest place to Okanagan Falls where ECCC publishes 1991–2020 normals.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Okanagan Falls →
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).