Photo: Bell and Jeff from Wellington, New Zealand · CC BY 2.0Vanderhoof has some of the coolest summers among Canadian towns
January nights here settle around −11.7°C. From frozen January to warm July, readings climb 34°C. By frosts alone, it ranks colder than 73% of Canadian towns. Plan for rain or snow on about 116 days a year, the days with 1 mm or more.
Vanderhoof has no ECCC normals station nearby: the figures come from Prince George, 88 km east, so read them as the wider area’s climate.
A year in Vanderhoof at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Vanderhoof’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in British Columbia beside it.
What a year in Vanderhoof feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
Frost on 184 days, 20°C on 75
From September to May frost is routine, and in December it comes on almost every night. On about 17 nights a year the air falls below −20°C.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
590 mm of precipitation in a typical year
The most falls in June, the least in March.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 204 cm in a normal year
The snow season runs October to May; January brings the most, about 53 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Vanderhoof
84% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Every day colder than 18°C on average adds its gap in degrees to the year’s heating total. In heating terms, homes need more heating than 64% of Canadian towns.
Living with Vanderhoof’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
About 107 days a year pass without frost, from an average last frost of 22 May to a first of 7 September.
Mild days and mild nights together (17–27°C by day, 8°C or more at night) belong to Jul and Aug.
Parks & trails →Plan for about 27 days a year with a wind chill below −20.
The air feels heavier than 30 on the humidex for about 5 days a year.
What averages leave out, the floods and ice storms, is on Vanderhoof’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Prince George
ECCC builds the Prince George normals from 3 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 88 km east |
| Station altitude | 691 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −46.1°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.6°C |
| Average wind | 10.0 km/h on average, most often from the south |
| Next-nearest location | Burns Lake Decker Lake, 133 km |
How Vanderhoof 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
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Vanderhoof’s would only repeat its figures. The nearest place to Vanderhoof with figures is 50 km away.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanderhoof Prince George | 22.6°C | −11.7°C | 590 mm |
| Electoral Area C, Bulkley-Nechako 50 km · Burns Lake Decker Lake | 22.1°C 0.5°C cooler | −14.8°C 3.1°C colder | 590 mm |
Vanderhoof 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 | −3.9°C | −11.7°C | −7.8°C | 50 mm | 53 cm |
| February | −0.7°C | −10.0°C | −5.4°C | 31 mm | 26 cm |
| March | 4.8°C | −6.2°C | −0.7°C | 29 mm | 24 cm |
| April | 11.1°C | −1.3°C | 4.9°C | 37 mm | 8 cm |
| May | 17.2°C | 3.3°C | 10.3°C | 45 mm | 2 cm |
| June | 20.2°C | 7.2°C | 13.7°C | 68 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 22.6°C | 9.1°C | 15.9°C | 64 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 22.2°C | 8.0°C | 15.1°C | 47 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 16.9°C | 4.0°C | 10.4°C | 55 mm | 1 cm |
| October | 9.2°C | −0.6°C | 4.4°C | 66 mm | 10 cm |
| November | 1.3°C | −5.5°C | −2.1°C | 57 mm | 35 cm |
| December | −3.0°C | −10.3°C | −6.7°C | 41 mm | 47 cm |
| Year | 9.8°C | −1.2°C | 4.3°C | 590 mm | 204 cm |
February strays furthest from its normal year to year, by 4.4°C; July the least
January has the widest record range, −46.1°C in 1991 to 11.3°C in 2003; the tick on each bar is the month’s normal.
Where Vanderhoof’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals at Prince George, the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals.
- 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: a sunshine figure (ECCC published none for 1991–2020) and any lapse-rate correction for height, as the town has no elevation here.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Vanderhoof’s climate
How warm does Vanderhoof get in summer?
The year’s warmest days come in July, with highs averaging 22.6°C.
How cold does Vanderhoof get in winter?
Winter bottoms out in January, with lows near −11.7°C.
How much rain and snow does Vanderhoof get?
Rain and snow, with snow counted as water, total 590 mm a year; June leads with 68 mm and March trails with 29 mm.
How long does snow stay on the ground?
There is 1 cm of snow or more on the ground on roughly 120 days a year.
Are these figures for Vanderhoof itself?
They are the figures for Prince George, which read better as the region’s climate than Vanderhoof’s own.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Vanderhoof →
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).