Climate in Crescent Heights · ECCC 1991–2020 normals

Crescent Heights sits near the top of Canadian towns for rain and snow, with 1,649 mm a year

In January the night’s low is typically 0.5°C. The year is lopsided: January gets about 7.0 times what August does. Winters are mild: January nights here are milder than in 95% of Canadian towns. An umbrella or a shovel earns its place on about 148 days a year with 1 mm or more.

July afternoons: cooler than 62% of Canadian towns

January nights: milder than 95% of Canadian towns

Rain and snow a year: wetter than almost every Canadian town

Crescent Heights has no ECCC normals station of its own: every figure here comes from Pitt Meadows, 22 km north-east.

July high

25.0°C

Typical Canadian town 25.5°C

January low

0.5°C

Typical Canadian town −13.5°C

Rain & snow a year

1,649 mm

Typical Canadian town 883 mm

Snowfall a year

37 cm

Typical Canadian town 141 cm

Frost days

a year at 0°C or below

Frost-free days

201

11 Apr to 30 Oct

A year in Crescent Heights at a glance

Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.

Jan7°C1°CWettest

Feb9°C0°C

Mar11°C2°C

Apr15°C5°CLast frost ~11 Apr

May19°C8°C

Jun21°C11°C

Jul25°C13°C

Aug25°C12°CWarmest

Sep22°C10°C

Oct15°C6°CFirst frost ~30 Oct

Nov now10°C2°C

Dec6°C0°CColdest nightsSnowiest

What stands out about Crescent Heights’s climate

Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia beside it.

Wetter than almost every Canadian townAbout 1,649 mm of rain and melted snow a year; January is the wettest month and August the driest. 10th wettest of 255 towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia.Less snowy than 98% of Canadian townsAbout 37 cm of snow falls in a year, most of it in December.Milder than 95% of Canadian townsJanuary nights average 0.5°C; December is colder still.

A normal year

What a year in Crescent Heights feels like

Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.

Winter

7°C / 0°C

600 mm, with 31 cm of snow: the wettest season

Spring

15°C / 5°C

373 mm of rain and snow

Summer

24°C / 12°C

153 mm of rain and snow

Autumn

15°C / 6°C

523 mm of rain and snow

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Best months to be outsideJunJulAugSepHighs of 17–27°C and nights of 8°C or more

Frost & warm days

Frost on 60 days, 20°C on 107

The frost season runs October to April, peaking in December at about 15 nights. Heat of 30°C or more comes on about 11 days a year.

201 frost-free days · average dates, 1991–2020

11 Apr 30 Oct

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Frost days a year (0°C or below)

Fewer frosts than 95% of Canadian towns

Days that stay below 0°C

107

Days a year above 20°C

Days a year above 30°C

Frost days by month

Average days at 0°C or below

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Days above 20°C by month

Average days

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Rain & snow

About 1,649 mm of rain and snow a year

10th wettest of 255 towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia.

1,649 mm

Rain and snow a year

Wetter than almost every Canadian town

252 mm

January, the wettest month

36 mm

August, the driest month

Rain and snow by month

Millimetres

252 mm

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Snow

37 cm of snow in a typical year

Snow falls from November to March, most of all in December (about 14 cm).

37 cm

Snowfall a year

Less snowy than 98% of Canadian towns

Days a year with 0.2 cm of snow or more

Snowfall by month

Centimetres

14 cm

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Pitt Meadows publishes no full year of snowfall, so these figures come from Vancouver International (Airport), 28 km away.

Heating

Heating a home in Crescent Heights

88% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: November to April.

2,824 heating degree days (below 18°C)a year, 1991–2020

2,266 growing degree days (above 5°C)a year, 1991–2020

Think of it as a year’s worth of daily shortfalls below 18°C, added up. By this count, homes here need less heating than 96% of Canadian towns.

Living here

Living with Crescent Heights’s climate

What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.

The garden window

Wait until about 11 April to plant out; frost tends to come back around 30 October, about 201 days later.

Get outside

Afternoons of 17–27°C and nights of at least 8°C arrive in Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.

Parks & trails →

Humidex

The humidex tops 30 on about 26 days a year: muggy days to plan around.

Storms and extremes

What averages leave out, the floods and ice storms, is on Crescent Heights’s hazards page.

Flood & hazards →

Weather station

ECCC’s normals location: Pitt Meadows

Every temperature, frost, snow and degree-day figure on this page is the 1991–2020 normal ECCC publishes for Pitt Meadows.

Distance from the town	22 km north-east
Station altitude	5 m
Completeness	meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule
WMO standard normals	No
Snowfall from	Vancouver International (Airport), 28 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	Vancouver International (Airport), 28 km

Compared with other towns

How Crescent Heights 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.

July afternoons25.0°C

Crescent HeightsMedian Canadian town

14°C18°C22°C26°C30°C

Cooler than 62% of Canadian towns

January nights0.5°C

Crescent HeightsMedian Canadian town

−25°C−20°C−15°C−10°C−5°C0°C5°C

Milder than 95% of Canadian towns

Rain and snow a year1,649 mm

Crescent HeightsMedian Canadian town

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Wetter than almost every Canadian town10th wettest of 255 towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia

Snowfall a year37 cm

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Less snowy than 98% of Canadian towns

Next door

Nearby towns’ climate

The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Crescent Heights’s would only repeat its figures. The nearest places to Crescent Heights with figures are 12–29 km away.

Town	July high	January low	Rain & snow
Crescent Heights Pitt Meadows	25.0°C	0.5°C	1,649 mm
Delta 12 km · Vancouver International (Airport)	22.4°C 2.6°C cooler	1.4°C 0.9°C milder	1,160 mm
Burnaby 23 km · Vancouver (Harbour)	23.0°C 2.0°C cooler	3.3°C 2.8°C milder	1,537 mm

Month by month

Crescent 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	12 cm
February	8.8°C	0.4°C	4.6°C	134 mm	5 cm
March	11.3°C	2.3°C	6.8°C	173 mm	3 cm
April	14.9°C	4.5°C	9.7°C	105 mm	under 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	under 1 cm
November	9.6°C	2.4°C	6.0°C	249 mm	3 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	37 cm

Year to year

From year to year, February moves by 1.7°C, more than any month, and October least

Each bar spans a month’s coldest and warmest readings over thirty years; September’s run from 0.9°C in 2000 to 34.4°C in 2017.

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Record low to record high, 1991–2020Normal

Sources

Where Crescent Heights’s numbers come from

Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.

Normals: Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals, Pitt Meadows: the nearest of its locations with every month’s 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: 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 Crescent Heights’s climate

How warm does Crescent Heights get in summer?

On a normal day in August the thermometer climbs to 25.1°C, the warmest of the year.

How cold does Crescent Heights get in winter?

Of all twelve months, December has the coldest nights, about 0.1°C.

How much rain and snow does Crescent Heights get?

A normal year brings 1,649 mm, snow included as water: January is wettest at 252 mm, August driest at 36 mm.

Are these figures for Crescent Heights itself?

They are borrowed from Pitt Meadows, the nearest place to Crescent Heights where ECCC publishes 1991–2020 normals.

Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Crescent 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).