Few Canadian towns get more rain and snow than Clayton Heights: 1,649 mm a year
On a normal July day the thermometer tops out near 25.0°C. By January nights alone, it runs milder than 95% of Canadian towns. From frozen January to warm July, readings climb 25°C. The heating season runs November to April: each of those months averages under 10°C.
Borrowed figures: Clayton Heights has no normals station, so these come from Pitt Meadows, 8.6 km north.
A year in Clayton Heights at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Clayton Heights’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia beside it.
What a year in Clayton Heights feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
About 60 frosts and 107 warm days a year
Frost comes from October to April, most of all in December (about 15 nights). 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
About 1,649 mm of rain and snow a year
January brings the most rain and snow; August, the least. 10th wettest of 255 towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia. Some 148 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
About 56 cm of snow a year
From November to March snow is likely; January is the peak, at about 22 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
ECCC’s Pitt Meadows normals leave snowfall out; the figures here come from Abbotsford, 27 km away.
Heating a home in Clayton Heights
88% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: November to April.
Heating degree days total each day’s gap between its mean temperature and 18°C. In heating terms, homes need less heating than 96% of Canadian towns.
Living with Clayton Heights’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Between the last frost, near 11 April, and the first, near 30 October, lie about 201 frost-free days.
Warm afternoons without cold nights, 17–27°C and 8°C or more, mark Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Humid heat, a humidex over 30, comes on about 26 days a year.
A normal year has no blizzard, flood or heat wave in it; Clayton Heights’s hazards page looks at those.
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 | 8.6 km north |
| Station altitude | 5 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Abbotsford, 27 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, 27 km |
How Clayton Heights 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 Clayton Heights’s would only repeat its figures. The nearest places to Clayton Heights with figures are 22–29 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clayton Heights Pitt Meadows | 25.0°C | 0.5°C | 1,649 mm |
| Delta 22 km · Vancouver International (Airport) | 22.4°C 2.6°C cooler | 1.4°C 0.9°C milder | 1,160 mm |
| Burnaby 24 km · Vancouver (Harbour) | 23.0°C 2.0°C cooler | 3.3°C 2.8°C milder | 1,537 mm |
| Mission 28 km · Abbotsford | 24.4°C 0.6°C cooler | 0.6°C about the same | 1,505 mm |
Clayton Heights 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 |
In September, anything from 0.9°C to 34.4°C
Two years in three, February’s average falls within 1.7°C of its normal of 4.6°C; October keeps to within 1.0°C.
Where Clayton Heights’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the Canadian Climate Normals, 1991–2020, at Pitt Meadows (the closest location with all twelve months of temperatures).
- Other locations: where a location publishes no full year of precipitation or snowfall, the nearest one that does supplies it, named beside those figures.
- Comparisons: all Canadian places of 2,500 or more except city totals and reserves, each read the same way.
- 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 Clayton Heights’s climate
How warm does Clayton Heights get in summer?
Peak warmth comes in August, at about 25.1°C by mid-afternoon.
How cold does Clayton Heights get in winter?
The coldest nights come in December, averaging 0.1°C.
How much rain and snow does Clayton Heights get?
Precipitation totals 1,649 mm a year, with January the wettest month (252 mm) and August the driest (36 mm).
Are these figures for Clayton Heights itself?
Not as such: Pitt Meadows is the nearest normals location, and Clayton Heights has none.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Clayton Heights →
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).