Douglas is among the wettest of Canadian towns: 1,649 mm of rain and snow a year
July afternoons average 25.0°C. January is the wettest month, August the driest. Winters are mild: January nights here are milder than in 95% of Canadian towns. Ice scrapers and block heaters earn their keep on roughly 60 days a year at 0°C or below.
These are not Douglas’s own readings: ECCC keeps no normals there, so the page uses Pitt Meadows, 23 km north.
A year in Douglas at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Douglas’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia beside it.
What a year in Douglas feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
Frost on 60 days, 20°C on 107
The frost season runs October to April, peaking in December at about 15 nights. About 11 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 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
The snow season runs November to March; January brings the most, about 22 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Pitt Meadows publishes no full year of snowfall, so these figures come from Abbotsford, 29 km away.
Heating a home in Douglas
88% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: November to April.
A heating degree day is one degree of shortfall below 18°C for one day, summed over the year. In heating terms, homes need less heating than 96% of Canadian towns.
Living with Douglas’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Plant out after about 11 April; the first frost of autumn usually arrives near 30 October, leaving roughly 201 days without frost.
Highs of 17–27°C with nights of 8°C or more come in Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Summer brings about 26 days when the humidex passes 30.
Thirty-year normals hide the storms and the extremes: the hazards page has Douglas’s risks.
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 | 23 km north |
| Station altitude | 5 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Abbotsford, 29 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, 29 km |
How Douglas 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
Places around Douglas whose figures come from another normals location. No closer places have figures: these lie 21–33 km from Douglas.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Douglas Pitt Meadows | 25.0°C | 0.5°C | 1,649 mm |
| Delta 21 km · Vancouver International (Airport) | 22.4°C 2.6°C cooler | 1.4°C 0.9°C milder | 1,160 mm |
| Burnaby 31 km · Vancouver (Harbour) | 23.0°C 2.0°C cooler | 3.3°C 2.8°C milder | 1,537 mm |
| Abbotsford 32 km · Abbotsford | 24.4°C 0.6°C cooler | 0.6°C about the same | 1,505 mm |
Douglas 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 |
September: 0.9°C at its coldest, 34.4°C at its warmest
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 Douglas’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals for Pitt Meadows, the nearest location with a full year of temperatures.
- Other locations: precipitation and snowfall come from the nearest location that publishes all twelve months of them, as named above.
- 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, not in ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals, and the effect of the town’s height, for which there is no figure.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Douglas’s climate
How warm does Douglas get in summer?
Afternoons average 25.1°C in August, the warmest time of year.
How cold does Douglas get in winter?
December nights average 0.1°C, the coldest of the year.
How much rain and snow does Douglas get?
Measured as water, a year brings 1,649 mm: 252 mm in January, the wettest month, and 36 mm in August, the driest.
Are these figures for Douglas itself?
They describe Pitt Meadows, the nearest normals location, rather than Douglas itself.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Douglas →
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).