Sechelt climate by month
What the weather is like
Sechelt has an oceanic climate (Köppen Cfb): rain spread through the year and no real dry season.
The warmest month is July, when afternoons average 23° and nights 14°. January is the coolest month, with highs of 6° and lows of 1°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 15°.
About 1,690 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. December is the wettest month (231 mm, 24 wet days) and July the driest (50 mm, 8 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 26% in August to 56% in January.
The sea reaches about 18° in August. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Ottawa, the capital, Sechelt is 4.3° cooler on a July afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 23° · July
- Coldest nights
- 1° · December
- Wettest month
- December
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- August · 26% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 18° · August
- Longest day
- 16 h 15 min
- Shortest day
- 8 h 11 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 6° | 7° | 10° | 13° | 18° | 20° | 23° | 22° | 19° | 13° | 9° | 6° |
| Average low | 1° | 1° | 3° | 5° | 9° | 11° | 14° | 14° | 11° | 7° | 4° | 1° |
| Precipitation | 223 mm | 163 mm | 155 mm | 112 mm | 92 mm | 78 mm | 50 mm | 51 mm | 85 mm | 188 mm | 262 mm | 231 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 20 | 16.5 | 18 | 14.3 | 14.7 | 14.8 | 8.3 | 10.5 | 11.2 | 17.5 | 20 | 23.7 |
| Cloud cover | 56% | 49% | 49% | 46% | 41% | 38% | 28% | 26% | 30% | 45% | 56% | 56% |
| Sea temperature | 7° | 7° | 8° | 10° | 13° | 16° | 18° | 18° | 15° | 12° | 9° | 8° |
| Daylight | 8h 38 | 10h 09 | 11h 51 | 13h 44 | 15h 21 | 16h 15 | 15h 52 | 14h 27 | 12h 38 | 10h 49 | 9h 07 | 8h 11 |
| Month score | 14 | 17 | 17 | 36 | 61 | 64 | 80 | 75 | 74 | 37 | 14 | 14 |