Few Canadian towns get more rain and snow than Sunrise Estates: 1,649 mm a year
Sunny July days climb to about 25.0°C. Temperatures cover 25°C across the year, low to high. Its January nights stay gentler than in 95% of Canadian towns. The furnace earns its keep from November to April, the months that average under 10°C.
ECCC publishes no normals for Sunrise Estates itself; the figures are those of Pitt Meadows, 12 km north.
A year in Sunrise Estates at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Sunrise Estates’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia beside it.
What a year in Sunrise Estates 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. 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
Rain and melted snow: about 1,649 mm a year
January is the wettest month and August the driest. 10th wettest of 255 towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia. On about 148 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 56 cm in a normal year
The snow season runs November to March; January brings the most, about 22 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snowfall: Abbotsford, 26 km away (Pitt Meadows records no complete year of it).
Heating a home in Sunrise Estates
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. Homes here need less heating than 96% of Canadian towns.
Living with Sunrise Estates’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Tender plants are usually safe from around 11 April until frost returns near 30 October: about 201 days.
The outdoor season by the averages is Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep, with highs of 17–27°C and lows of 8°C or more.
Parks & trails →Roughly 26 days a year feel hotter than 30 once humidity is counted.
Severe weather is a separate story from the averages: see Sunrise Estates’s 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 | 12 km north |
| Station altitude | 5 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Abbotsford, 26 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, 26 km |
How Sunrise Estates 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
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Sunrise Estates’s own would show the same figures). Distances here run 22–30 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Sunrise Estates.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunrise Estates 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 26 km · Vancouver (Harbour) | 23.0°C 2.0°C cooler | 3.3°C 2.8°C milder | 1,537 mm |
| Mission 29 km · Abbotsford | 24.4°C 0.6°C cooler | 0.6°C about the same | 1,505 mm |
Sunrise Estates 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 |
February varies most from one year to the next (1.7°C), October least
The thirty-year records stretch furthest in September: a low of 0.9°C in 2000 and a high of 34.4°C in 2017.
Where Sunrise Estates’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: the 2,500-plus towns and neighbourhoods of Canada, each read from its closest normals location; whole cities and reserves aren’t counted.
- 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 Sunrise Estates’s climate
How warm does Sunrise Estates get in summer?
Peak warmth comes in August, at about 25.1°C by mid-afternoon.
How cold does Sunrise Estates get in winter?
A typical December night falls to 0.1°C, the year’s low point.
How much rain and snow does Sunrise Estates get?
1,649 mm a year counting snow as water. The wettest month is January (252 mm); the driest, August (36 mm).
Are these figures for Sunrise Estates itself?
No. ECCC measures normals at Pitt Meadows, not in Sunrise Estates; the page uses the nearest it has.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Sunrise Estates →
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).