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The climate of Vancouver (Canada)
Vancouver is located in the south western part of Canada and has a moderate sea climate with mild winters and relatively cool summers. The sea water is supplied by the relatively warm Kuro-Shiro-Drift. Because of this the water is warmed between the Philippines and Japan before reaching Vancouver. During the winter the sea water is relatively warm for this degree of latitude with 8-9 degrees Celsius on average. During the summer the sea water is relatively low with 14 degrees on average and 15-16 degrees Celsius during warmer years. Because there usually is an onshore flow of air coming from the Pacific Vancouver gets quite a large amount of rain. Especially during the winter the city is gray, very wet and when it’s cold enough snowy. Vancouver is situated in one of the wettest regions in North America. The North Shore Mountains and the Coast Mountains cause depressions to remain stationary over the city. However, you would expect Vancouver to get more rain than the 1,200-1,300 millimeters it gets per year. Several hundreds kilometers further north or further south there are areas which get more than 2,000 millimeters of rain per year.

The pleasant thing about Vancouver’s climate is that it is rather predictable, unlike in other places in Canada. Winters are much milder here than in other places in Canada. Vancouver gets about 10-15 snowy days per year, which is not much for a Canadian city. Vancouver only gets few days on which wintry weather causes significant inconvenience. This is one of the factors which makes Vancouver one of the best cities in Canada to live in. During the summer there are also few extremes in climate. The summer is much drier and sunnier than the winter. Daytime temperatures are 20-26 degrees Celsius, so it is never too hot or too cold.

Climate information
The figures below are based on long term weather and climate records. They are an average for Vancouver:

	average  maximum temperature (°C)	average minimum temperature (°C)	average hours of sunshine per day	average days with precipitation per month	average mm precipitation per month	average sea temperature (°C)
January	6	0	2	19		8
February	8	2	3	17		8
March	11	3	4	17		8
April	13	5	6	15		10
May	17	8	7	13		12
June	20	11	8	11		13
July	22	13	9	7		14
August	23	13	8	8		14
September	19	10	6	10		13
October	14	7	4	16		11
November	9	3	2	20		9
December	6	1	2	21		8
= 0-5 mm ● = 6-30 mm ● = 31-60 mm ● = 61-100 mm ● = 101-200 mm ● = over 200 mm = 0-0.2 inches ● = 0.2-1.2 inches ● = 1.2-2.4 inches ● = 2.5-4 inches ● = 4.1-8 inches ● = over 8 inches

More climate information
Climate figures are very useful but don’t present a general impression of the climate and the eventual weather circumstances within a certain period. The figures don’t always reflect the chance of wintry weather, extreme heat or hurricanes. That is why we offer useful extra climate information for each month of the year:

	chance of (very) hot weather	chance of (very) cool weather	chance of long-term precipitation	chance of hurricanes (cyclones)	chance of sunny days	UV-index
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