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Weather
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| With our cold winters, hot summers and everything in-between it is not surprising that the weather is a national preoccupation of Canadians. Click on the map below to explore our interesting and challenging weather.
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- Victoria
- Victoria (photo
of Victoria) is the city with the lowest annual
average snowfall: 47 centimetres.
- Lakelse Lake
- The heaviest snowfall in one day was 118.1 centimetres
at Lakelse Lake, January 17, 1974.
- Winnipeg
- Winnipeg has the sunniest winters with the most hours of sunshine during December, January and February: 358 hours.
- Windsor
- The most humid city is Windsor with the highest
average vapour pressure, 1.78 kilopascal, during June,
July and August.
- Chicoutimi
- Chicoutimi has the greatest number of days per year with blowing snow: 37 days.
- Corner Brook
- Corner Brook is the snowiest city with an annual
average snowfall: 422 centimetres. Note that several
smaller places also in Newfoundland and Labrador,
Churchill Falls and Wabush, have higher annual snow
fall.
- Vancouver
- The city with fewest days below freezing is Vancouver
(photo
of Vancouver), which has an average of 51 days
per year with freezing temperatures.
- Yellowknife
- The city with the coldest winters, according to
the average nighttime temperature during December,
January and February, is Yellowknife (photo
of Yellowknife): -29.9 degrees Celsius. It is
also the coldest city with a mean annual temperature
of -5.4 degrees Celsius and it has the sunniest summers
with the most hours of sunshine during June, July
and August: 1037 hours.
- Thompson
- The city with the shortest frost-free period is Thompson, with 64 days.
- Kamloops
- Kamloops has the warmest summers with an average daytime temperature of 27.2 degrees Celsius during June, July and August.
- Estevan
- The sunshine capital is Estevan with the greatest
number of hours of sunshine per year: 2500 hours.
Estevan also has the highest annual number of hours
per year with clear skies (between zero and two-tenths
sky cover): 2979 hours.
- St. John's
- St. John's (photo
of St. John's) is the city with the greatest number
of days per year with fog: 121 days. It is the windiest
city, with the greatest average annual wind speed
being 24 kilometers per hour; and has the greatest
number of days per year of freezing precipitation:
38 days.
- Prince Rupert
- Prince Rupert is the cloudiest place with 6123 hours
per year with overcast skies (between eight-tenths
and total sky cover). It also has the fewest thunderstorms
days, 3 per year. Prince Rupert is also the wettest
city, with a total annual precipitation of 2552 millimetres.
- London
- London is the city which has the most days per year with thunderstorms: 36 days.
- Kelowna
- Kelowna has the calmest winds with the greatest percentage of wind observations per year of calm conditions (39%).
- Snag
- The lowest temperature recorded in Canada is -63
degrees Celsius at Snag on February 3, 1947.
- Pincher Creek
- The most extreme change in temperature took place
in January 1962 in Pincher Creek when a warm,
dry wind known as a chinook, brought the temperature
up from -19 degrees Celsius to 22 degrees Celsius
in an hour.
- Medicine Hat
- Medicine Hat is the driest city with 271 days without measurable precipitation.
Source: Phillips, D. 1990. The
Climate of Canada. Catalogue No. En56-1/1990E.
Ottawa: Minister of Supply and Services of Canada.
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