Ideal weather days in Vancouver
The best time to visit Vancouver for warm, dry weather is July and August, with 23 to 28 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Vancouver's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in July and August.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Vancouver, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too cold230
- Too wet123
- Too windy33
- Too hot0
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Vancouver averaged 108 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Canada, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in July (up to 7 a month, 12 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in September (up to 15 a month, 65 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too cold (a high under 18 °C): 230 a year, mostly in October to April. Another 123 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in March to April and October to January. A day can fail more than one test.
Vancouver weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 7 °C 45 °F | 17 | 2 | 6 | 0 of 31 |
| February | 8 °C 46 °F | 13 | 4 | 4 | 0 of 28 |
| March | 11 °C 51 °F | 15 | 3 | 6 | 0 of 31 |
| April | 13 °C 55 °F | 13 | 5 | 9 | 1 of 30 |
| May | 18 °C 64 °F | 8 | 2 | 12 | 14 of 31 |
| June | 20 °C 68 °F | 7 | 4 | 13 | 20 of 30 |
| July | 24 °C 75 °F | 2 | 2 | 18 | 28 of 31 |
| August | 23 °C 73 °F | 6 | 3 | 13 | 23 of 31 |
| September | 20 °C 68 °F | 7 | 2 | 11 | 19 of 30 |
| October | 15 °C 59 °F | 15 | 1 | 8 | 3 of 31 |
| November | 10 °C 50 °F | 14 | 3 | 5 | 0 of 30 |
| December | 9 °C 48 °F | 21 | 2 | 2 | 0 of 31 |
| Year | 134 | 33 | 107 | 108 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 117 warm, dry days
- 2024 104 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Vancouver for good weather?
The best time to visit Vancouver for warm, dry weather is July and August, with 23 to 28 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in July (up to 7 a month, 12 a year). Counted from measured days at Vancouver International station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Vancouver?
On average 134 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was December (21 rain days), the driest July (2).
How many sunny days does Vancouver get a year?
About 107 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in July (18).
How warm does Vancouver get?
The median daily high ranged from 7 °C (45 °F) in January to 24 °C (75 °F) in July.
Nearby
- Seattle190 km, United States142 days
- Calgary670 km117 days
- Edmonton820 km104 days
- Boise820 km, United States117 days
More cities in Canada
- Toronto 115 days
- Ottawa 113 days
- Montréal 111 days
- Halifax 98 days
- Regina 97 days
- Yellowknife 81 days
- Whitehorse 67 days
- St. John's 34 days
- Iqaluit 6 days
Where is the best climate in Canada?
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Source: Vancouver International weather station (71892099999), 11 km from the centre of Vancouver, 4 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 87% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.