Photo: waferboard · CC BY 2.0Sechelt sits near the bottom of Canadian towns for frosts
Sunny July days climb to about 23.0°C. A year here swings 20°C from midwinter lows to midsummer highs. It is a wet place: more rain and snow fall here than on 97% of Canadian towns. Homes need heating from November to March, the months averaging under 10°C.
Every figure here comes from Vancouver (Harbour), 51 km east; ECCC has no normals closer to Sechelt, so they describe the wider area.
A year in Sechelt at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Sechelt’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia beside it.
What a year in Sechelt feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
About 17 frosts and 87 warm days a year
Frosts fall from November to March; January has the most, about 6.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
About 1,537 mm of rain and snow a year
About 142 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
37 cm of snow in a typical year
The snow season runs November to March; December brings the most, about 14 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
ECCC’s Vancouver (Harbour) normals leave snowfall out; the figures here come from Vancouver International (Airport), 53 km away.
Heating a home in Sechelt
89% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: November to March.
Measured against 18°C: each day’s shortfall in mean temperature, added over twelve months. In heating terms, homes need less heating than almost every Canadian town.
Living with Sechelt’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
The outdoor season by the averages is May, Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep, with highs of 17–27°C and lows of 8°C or more.
Parks & trails →What averages leave out, the floods and ice storms, is on Sechelt’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Vancouver (Harbour)
Every temperature, frost, snow and degree-day figure on this page is the 1991–2020 normal ECCC publishes for Vancouver (Harbour).
| Distance from the town | 51 km east |
| Station altitude | 3 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Vancouver International (Airport), 53 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −9.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 34.9°C |
| Next-nearest location | Vancouver International (Airport), 53 km |
How Sechelt 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 Sechelt’s would only repeat its figures. The nearest places to Sechelt with figures are 25–36 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sechelt Vancouver (Harbour) | 23.0°C | 3.3°C | 1,537 mm |
| Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast 25 km · Comox | 23.1°C about the same | 1.5°C 1.8°C colder | 1,152 mm |
| Electoral Area B, Nanaimo 34 km · Vancouver International (Airport) | 22.4°C 0.6°C cooler | 1.4°C 1.9°C colder | 1,160 mm |
Sechelt weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7.4°C | 3.3°C | 5.3°C | 237 mm | 12 cm |
| February | 8.4°C | 3.3°C | 5.9°C | 117 mm | 5 cm |
| March | 10.5°C | 4.6°C | 7.6°C | 163 mm | 3 cm |
| April | 13.9°C | 6.9°C | 10.4°C | 118 mm | under 1 cm |
| May | 17.8°C | 10.2°C | 14.0°C | 73 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 20.2°C | 12.8°C | 16.5°C | 66 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 23.0°C | 14.9°C | 19.0°C | 44 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 23.0°C | 14.8°C | 18.9°C | 49 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 19.4°C | 12.1°C | 15.8°C | 71 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 13.9°C | 8.6°C | 11.2°C | 157 mm | under 1 cm |
| November | 9.7°C | 5.3°C | 7.5°C | 245 mm | 3 cm |
| December | 7.1°C | 3.2°C | 5.2°C | 200 mm | 14 cm |
| Year | 14.5°C | 8.3°C | 11.4°C | 1,537 mm | 37 cm |
In June, anything from −2.8°C to 30.6°C
Two years in three, January’s average falls within 1.5°C of its normal of 5.3°C; July keeps to within 0.8°C.
Where Sechelt’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: 1991–2020 normals for Vancouver (Harbour) from ECCC’s climate data site, the nearest location with every month of temperature.
- Other locations: precipitation and snowfall come from the nearest location that publishes all twelve months of them, as named above.
- 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: sunshine, which none of ECCC’s 450 locations publishes for 1991–2020, and the town’s own height above sea level, so no figure is adjusted for altitude.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Sechelt’s climate
How warm does Sechelt get in summer?
The year’s warmest days come in July, with highs averaging 23.0°C.
How cold does Sechelt get in winter?
In December, the coldest month, the typical low is 3.2°C.
How much rain and snow does Sechelt get?
Over twelve months, rain and melted snow come to 1,537 mm; the range runs from 44 mm in July to 245 mm in November.
Are these figures for Sechelt itself?
They are the figures for Vancouver (Harbour), which read better as the region’s climate than Sechelt’s own.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Sechelt →
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).