Few Canadian towns get fewer frosts than Coal Harbour
July afternoons average 23.0°C. The year is lopsided: November gets about 5.6 times what July does. It is a wet place: more rain and snow fall here than on 97% of Canadian towns. Have the furnace checked before November to March, the months that average under 10°C.
Read at Vancouver (Harbour), 1.2 km north: ECCC’s normals for 1991–2020.
A year in Coal Harbour at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Coal Harbour’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia beside it.
What a year in Coal Harbour feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
17 frost days and 87 days above 20°C a year
Frost comes from November to March, most of all in January (about 6 nights).
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
About 1,537 mm of rain and snow a year
About 142 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
About 37 cm of snow a year
From November to March snow is likely; December is the peak, at about 14 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
ECCC’s Vancouver (Harbour) normals leave snowfall out; the figures here come from Vancouver International (Airport), 12 km away.
Heating a home in Coal Harbour
89% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: November to March.
A day averaging 10 degrees under 18°C adds 10 to the total; warm days add nothing. That means homes here need less heating than almost every Canadian town.
Living with Coal Harbour’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
The comfortable months for a day outside, highs of 17–27°C and nights of 8°C or more: May, Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →What averages leave out, the floods and ice storms, is on Coal Harbour’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Vancouver (Harbour)
The page’s figures are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Vancouver (Harbour), one of its 450 normals locations.
| Distance from the town | 1.2 km north |
| Station altitude | 3 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Vancouver International (Airport), 12 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −9.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 34.9°C |
| Next-nearest location | Vancouver International (Airport), 12 km |
How Coal Harbour 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
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Coal Harbour’s would only repeat its figures. The nearest places to Coal Harbour with figures are 9–20 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coal Harbour Vancouver (Harbour) | 23.0°C | 3.3°C | 1,537 mm |
| Electoral Area A, Metro Vancouver 8.6 km · Vancouver International (Airport) | 22.4°C 0.6°C cooler | 1.4°C 1.9°C colder | 1,160 mm |
| New Westminster 18 km · Pitt Meadows | 25.0°C 2.0°C warmer | 0.5°C 2.8°C colder | 1,649 mm |
Coal Harbour 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 | 7.4°C | 3.3°C | 5.3°C | 237 mm | 12 cm |
| February | 8.4°C | 3.3°C | 5.9°C | 117 mm | 5 cm |
| March | 10.5°C | 4.6°C | 7.6°C | 163 mm | 3 cm |
| April | 13.9°C | 6.9°C | 10.4°C | 118 mm | under 1 cm |
| May | 17.8°C | 10.2°C | 14.0°C | 73 mm | 0 cm |
| June | 20.2°C | 12.8°C | 16.5°C | 66 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 23.0°C | 14.9°C | 19.0°C | 44 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 23.0°C | 14.8°C | 18.9°C | 49 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 19.4°C | 12.1°C | 15.8°C | 71 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 13.9°C | 8.6°C | 11.2°C | 157 mm | under 1 cm |
| November | 9.7°C | 5.3°C | 7.5°C | 245 mm | 3 cm |
| December | 7.1°C | 3.2°C | 5.2°C | 200 mm | 14 cm |
| Year | 14.5°C | 8.3°C | 11.4°C | 1,537 mm | 37 cm |
January strays furthest from its normal year to year, by 1.5°C; July the least
Bars run from each month’s record low to its record high since 1991. June spans the most, from −2.8°C (2007) to 30.6°C (2015).
Where Coal Harbour’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals at Vancouver (Harbour), the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals.
- Other locations: ECCC blanks a month that fails its completeness rule, so the precipitation or snowfall here comes from the next location with all twelve months.
- 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, 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 Coal Harbour’s climate
How warm does Coal Harbour get in summer?
Of all twelve months, July has the warmest afternoons, about 23.0°C.
How cold does Coal Harbour get in winter?
Deep winter means December, when nights average 3.2°C.
How much rain and snow does Coal Harbour get?
Around 1,537 mm a year in all, from 245 mm in November down to 44 mm in July.
Are these figures for Coal Harbour itself?
Almost: ECCC’s Vancouver (Harbour) location, which gives these figures, lies a short way outside Coal Harbour.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Coal Harbour →
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).