Photo: Jarcardo · CC BY-SA 3.0Few Canadian towns get more rain and snow than Pitt Meadows: 1,649 mm a year
The warmest part of a July day comes in at 25.0°C on average. Precipitation peaks in January and eases off in August. By January nights alone, it runs milder than 95% of Canadian towns. Have the furnace checked before November to April, the months that average under 10°C.
Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals, measured at Pitt Meadows, 1.6 km south.
A year in Pitt Meadows at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Pitt Meadows’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia beside it.
What a year in Pitt Meadows feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on 60 days, 20°C on 107
Frosts fall from October to April; December has the most, about 15. Heat of 30°C or more comes on about 11 days a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
Rain and melted snow: about 1,649 mm a year
10th wettest of 255 towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia. About 148 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
56 cm of snow in a typical year
Snow falls from November to March, most of all in January (about 22 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
ECCC’s Pitt Meadows normals leave snowfall out; the figures here come from Abbotsford, 32 km away.
Heating a home in Pitt Meadows
88% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: November to April.
Think of it as a year’s worth of daily shortfalls below 18°C, added up. A house here needs less heating than 96% of Canadian towns.
Living with Pitt Meadows’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Wait until about 11 April to plant out; frost tends to come back around 30 October, about 201 days later.
The comfortable months for a day outside, highs of 17–27°C and nights of 8°C or more: Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →A humidex above 30 marks about 26 days in a normal year.
The normals describe a typical year, not its worst days; the hazards page covers Pitt Meadows’s.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Pitt Meadows
The page’s figures are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Pitt Meadows, one of its 450 normals locations.
| Distance from the town | 1.6 km south |
| Station altitude | 5 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Abbotsford, 32 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −16.3°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 37.6°C |
| Average wind | 4.8 km/h on average, most often from the east |
| Next-nearest location | Abbotsford, 32 km |
How Pitt Meadows 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
Places around Pitt Meadows whose figures come from another normals location. Pitt Meadows has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 21–29 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pitt Meadows | 25.0°C | 0.5°C | 1,649 mm |
| Burnaby 21 km · Vancouver (Harbour) | 23.0°C 2.0°C cooler | 3.3°C 2.8°C milder | 1,537 mm |
| Delta 26 km · Vancouver International (Airport) | 22.4°C 2.6°C cooler | 1.4°C 0.9°C milder | 1,160 mm |
| Mission 28 km · Abbotsford | 24.4°C 0.6°C cooler | 0.6°C about the same | 1,505 mm |
Pitt Meadows 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 | 6.8°C | 0.5°C | 3.6°C | 252 mm | 22 cm |
| February | 8.8°C | 0.4°C | 4.6°C | 134 mm | 7 cm |
| March | 11.3°C | 2.3°C | 6.8°C | 173 mm | 5 cm |
| April | 14.9°C | 4.5°C | 9.7°C | 105 mm | 1 cm |
| May | 19.0°C | 7.9°C | 13.5°C | 95 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 21.3°C | 10.8°C | 16.1°C | 69 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.0°C | 12.6°C | 18.8°C | 48 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.1°C | 12.4°C | 18.8°C | 36 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 21.5°C | 9.8°C | 15.7°C | 94 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 15.0°C | 5.9°C | 10.5°C | 180 mm | 0 cm |
| November | 9.6°C | 2.4°C | 6.0°C | 249 mm | 7 cm |
| December | 6.1°C | 0.1°C | 3.1°C | 214 mm | 14 cm |
| Year | 15.4°C | 5.8°C | 10.6°C | 1,649 mm | 56 cm |
From 0.9°C to 34.4°C: September’s coldest and warmest days since 1991
The month to count on least is February: one year in three its average strays more than 1.7°C from 4.6°C. October moves least, typically by 1.0°C.
Where Pitt Meadows’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals at Pitt Meadows, the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals.
- Other locations: ECCC blanks a month that fails its completeness rule, so the precipitation or snowfall here comes from the next location with all twelve months.
- 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: hours of sunshine, missing from the 1991–2020 normals, and a height correction: the town has no elevation on file.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Pitt Meadows’s climate
How warm does Pitt Meadows get in summer?
In August, the warmest month, the typical high is 25.1°C.
How cold does Pitt Meadows get in winter?
Lows sink to 0.1°C on an average December night.
How much rain and snow does Pitt Meadows get?
Rain and snow add up to about 1,649 mm of water a year; January brings the most (252 mm), August the least (36 mm).
Are these figures for Pitt Meadows itself?
Yes: ECCC’s normals station is inside Pitt Meadows itself.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Pitt Meadows →
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).