Hardly any Canadian towns collect more precipitation than Tzeachten 13: 1,734 mm a year
January nights here settle around 0.8°C. Frost is rarer than in 98% of Canadian towns: about 35 nights a year drop below freezing. November is the wettest month, July the driest. Picnics, hikes and garden evenings come into their own from May to September, with highs of 19–25°C.
Tzeachten 13 has no ECCC normals station of its own: every figure here comes from Agassiz, 20 km north-east.
A year in Tzeachten 13 at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Tzeachten 13’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia beside it.
What a year in Tzeachten 13 feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
About 35 frosts and 106 warm days a year
Frosts fall from November to March; January has the most, about 10. 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 1,734 mm of rain and snow a year
7th wettest of 256 towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia. Some 161 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 52 cm in a normal year
From November to March snow is likely; January is the peak, at about 18 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Tzeachten 13
88% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: November to March.
Every day colder than 18°C on average adds its gap in degrees to the year’s heating total. That means homes here need less heating than 98% of Canadian towns.
Living with Tzeachten 13’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Plan time outside for May, Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep: highs of 17–27°C and nights no colder than 8°C.
Parks & trails →Muggy heat with a humidex over 30 arrives on about 34 days a year.
Thirty years of averages say little about one bad storm; Tzeachten 13’s hazards page does.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Agassiz
ECCC builds the Agassiz normals from 2 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 20 km north-east |
| Station altitude | 19 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −13.9°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 37.3°C |
| Average wind | 6.6 km/h on average, most often from the north-east |
| Next-nearest location | Abbotsford, 31 km |
How Tzeachten 13 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.
Nearby towns’ climate
Places around Tzeachten 13 whose figures come from another normals location. The one place listed is 10 km from Tzeachten 13, the nearest with figures.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tzeachten 13 Agassiz | 24.9°C | 0.8°C | 1,734 mm |
| Cultus Lake 10 km · Abbotsford | 24.4°C 0.5°C cooler | 0.6°C about the same | 1,505 mm |
Tzeachten 13 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 | 6.1°C | 0.8°C | 3.5°C | 250 mm | 18 cm |
| February | 8.6°C | 2.0°C | 5.3°C | 137 mm | 5 cm |
| March | 11.3°C | 3.3°C | 7.3°C | 152 mm | 7 cm |
| April | 15.0°C | 5.8°C | 10.4°C | 123 mm | 0 cm |
| May | 19.3°C | 9.2°C | 14.2°C | 90 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 21.2°C | 11.5°C | 16.4°C | 91 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 24.9°C | 13.1°C | 19.0°C | 55 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.0°C | 13.0°C | 19.0°C | 69 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 21.6°C | 10.8°C | 16.2°C | 98 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 15.1°C | 7.4°C | 11.2°C | 185 mm | 0 cm |
| November | 9.0°C | 3.6°C | 6.4°C | 268 mm | 7 cm |
| December | 5.8°C | 1.1°C | 3.5°C | 217 mm | 14 cm |
| Year | 15.2°C | 6.8°C | 11.0°C | 1,734 mm | 52 cm |
A March here can run from −9.3°C to 25.8°C
Two years in three, January’s average falls within 2.0°C of its normal of 3.5°C; August keeps to within 0.9°C.
Where Tzeachten 13’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals, Agassiz, 1991–2020.
- Comparisons: every place of 2,500+ in Canada but the city hubs and the reserves, each on its nearest ECCC 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 Tzeachten 13’s climate
How warm does Tzeachten 13 get in summer?
In August, the warmest month, the typical high is 25.0°C.
How cold does Tzeachten 13 get in winter?
The year’s coldest nights belong to January, at about 0.8°C.
How much rain and snow does Tzeachten 13 get?
Over twelve months, rain and melted snow come to 1,734 mm; the range runs from 55 mm in July to 268 mm in November.
How long does snow stay on the ground?
Roughly 11 days a year start with snow cover of 1 cm or more.
Are these figures for Tzeachten 13 itself?
Only indirectly: the readings are made at Agassiz, outside Tzeachten 13.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Tzeachten 13 →
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