Fraser Heights is among the wettest of Canadian towns: 1,649 mm of rain and snow a year
Peak summer warmth arrives in July, with afternoons near 25.0°C. A year here swings 25°C from midwinter lows to midsummer highs. 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.
The nearest ECCC normals location to Fraser Heights is Pitt Meadows, 5.9 km east, and every figure on this page is its.
A year in Fraser Heights at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Fraser Heights’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia beside it.
What a year in Fraser Heights 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
Frosts fall from October to April; December has the most, about 15. Some 11 days a year climb past 30°C.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
1,649 mm of precipitation in a typical year
January brings the most rain and snow; August, the least. 10th wettest of 255 towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
About 37 cm of snow a year
Expect snow from November to March, with about 14 cm in December, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Pitt Meadows publishes no full year of snowfall, so these figures come from Vancouver International (Airport), 30 km away.
Heating a home in Fraser 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. That means homes here need less heating than 96% of Canadian towns.
Living with Fraser 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.
Afternoons of 17–27°C and nights of at least 8°C arrive in Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Summer brings about 26 days when the humidex passes 30.
Bad-weather days, from blizzards to floods, get their own page for Fraser Heights: the hazards page.
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 | 5.9 km east |
| Station altitude | 5 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Vancouver International (Airport), 30 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 (Harbour), 28 km |
How Fraser Heights 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
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Fraser Heights’s own would show the same figures). The nearest places to Fraser Heights with figures are 16–25 km away.
Fraser Heights weather by month
Month by month, 1991–2020: the usual high, low and mean, the rain and snow, and the snowfall.
| 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 |
From 0.9°C to 34.4°C: September’s coldest and warmest days since 1991
From one year to the next, February’s average typically shifts by 1.7°C around its normal of 4.6°C, the widest of any month, while October’s shifts by 1.0°C.
Where Fraser Heights’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: a location missing months of precipitation or snow is filled from the nearest that has them all, never mixed month by month.
- 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 Fraser Heights’s climate
How warm does Fraser Heights get in summer?
Of all twelve months, August has the warmest afternoons, about 25.1°C.
How cold does Fraser Heights get in winter?
Winter bottoms out in December, with lows near 0.1°C.
How much rain and snow does Fraser Heights get?
Around 1,649 mm a year in all, from 252 mm in January down to 36 mm in August.
Are these figures for Fraser Heights itself?
No. ECCC measures normals at Pitt Meadows, not in Fraser Heights; the page uses the nearest it has.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Fraser 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).