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Best time to visit
Castlegar.

June leads for comfortable weather in Castlegar: typically 23.8°C by day, 10°C at night, with 74 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJune

Typical high23.8°C

Typical low10°C

Rain in June74 mm

Comfort

June

June · September · August

79climate match

Beach

August

August · July · September

73climate match

Outdoors

September

September · May · June

85climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against June’s 79 — days reach only 0.5°C, 23° below the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

50.5° / -3.8°

Feb

53.5° / -3.5°

Mar

119.1° / -0.9°

Apr

3815° / 2.2°

May

6220.6° / 6.6°

Jun

7923.8° / 10°

Jul

7529.2° / 12.5°

Aug

7729.1° / 11.9°

Sep

7922.5° / 8°

Oct

3312.9° / 3.2°

Nov

55° / -0.4°

Dec

50.4° / -3.7°

Monthly climate evidence for Castlegar — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	0.5°C	-3.8°C	79 mm	12.5	8 h 36	5	Strong coverage
February	3.5°C	-3.5°C	48 mm	9.7	10 h 02	5	Strong coverage
March	9.1°C	-0.9°C	69 mm	10.7	11 h 43	11	Strong coverage
April	15°C	2.2°C	56 mm	10	13 h 39	38	Strong coverage
May	20.6°C	6.6°C	67 mm	10.6	15 h 18	62	Strong coverage
June	23.8°C	10°C	74 mm	10	16 h 13	79	Strong coverage
July	29.2°C	12.5°C	39 mm	5.8	15 h 51	75	Strong coverage
August	29.1°C	11.9°C	22 mm	4	14 h 24	77	Strong coverage
September	22.5°C	8°C	37 mm	5.9	12 h 32	79	Strong coverage
October	12.9°C	3.2°C	59 mm	9	10 h 41	33	Strong coverage
November	5°C	-0.4°C	88 mm	12.8	9 h 02	5	Strong coverage
December	0.4°C	-3.7°C	94 mm	13.2	8 h 12	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Castlegar runs +1.0°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Each bar compares the 2011–2025 daytime average for that month against the same month in 1961–1990, measured at the same station. Months where the older record is too thin to compare are left blank.

Jan

+1.5

Feb

+0.3

Mar

+0.6

Apr

+0.1

May

+1.5

Jun

+0.7

Jul

+2.5

Aug

+2.0

Sep

+1.3

Oct

+0.5

Nov

+0.4

Dec

+0.5

June daytime highs, 2011–2023. Last recorded: 27.0°C.

Records at CASTLEGAR A, 1965–2024
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	10.0°C16 Jan 1974	-26.2°C13 Jan 2024	32 mm10 Jan 1969	168 mm2006 · driest 9 mm in 1985	59
February	14.3°C21 Feb 1988	-21.5°C5 Feb 2014	31 mm25 Feb 1979	163 mm1979 · driest 8 mm in 2005	59
March	23.1°C30 Mar 2004	-18.0°C3 Mar 2019	34 mm22 Mar 1993	146 mm2012 · driest 13 mm in 2021	58
April	28.5°C29 Apr 2023	-7.5°C1 Apr 1979	32 mm16 Apr 1992	105 mm1996 · driest 13 mm in 1977	58
May	34.5°C18 May 2006	-4.7°C1 May 2013	52 mm21 May 2013	157 mm1996 · driest 17 mm in 1970	58
June	44.0°C30 Jun 2021	1.6°C11 Jun 2008	46 mm19 Jun 2013	228 mm2012 · driest 13 mm in 1974	58
July	42.0°C1 Jul 2021	4.1°C3 Jul 1979	68 mm17 Jul 2012	143 mm1998 · driest 0 mm in 1985	58
August	41.2°C15 Aug 2023	2.5°C25 Aug 1992	43 mm24 Aug 1977	140 mm1976 · driest 0 mm in 1967	58
September	37.0°C2 Sep 2022	-4.3°C28 Sep 1984	29 mm23 Sep 1986	123 mm1997 · driest 2 mm in 1990	58
October	27.2°C7 Oct 1980	-11.3°C31 Oct 2002	52 mm13 Oct 2016	210 mm2016 · driest 2 mm in 2002	58
November	19.4°C4 Nov 1975	-20.2°C21 Nov 1977	38 mm1 Nov 1984	187 mm1973 · driest 14 mm in 1979	58
December	14.5°C1 Dec 2021	-30.6°C30 Dec 1968	42 mm12 Dec 1998	195 mm1996 · driest 20 mm in 1985	59

Typical days per month at CASTLEGAR A, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	23	2	13
February	0	0	21	1	8
March	0	0	18	2	6
April	<1	0	8	1	1
May	7	2	1	2	<1
June	12	4	0	2	0
July	25	15	0	1	0
August	24	15	0	<1	0
September	9	2	<1	1	0
October	<1	0	7	2	<1
November	0	0	15	3	7
December	0	0	26	3	15

How often, not how much — every day in CASTLEGAR A’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	0%	39%	7%	51%	-2.2–2.3°C
February	0%	35%	5%	46%	0.6–5.1°C
March	<1%	33%	6%	44%	7.0–11.3°C
April	14%	31%	5%	38%	13.1–16.8°C
May	44%	33%	6%	42%	17.4–22.9°C
June	60%	33%	7%	43%	21.4–26.6°C
July	80%	19%	4%	16%	26.1–32.0°C
August	82%	17%	3%	18%	25.0–31.0°C
September	59%	21%	4%	24%	18.8–24.8°C
October	7%	29%	5%	39%	11.5–15.0°C
November	0%	43%	10%	60%	2.7–6.6°C
December	0%	43%	10%	59%	-2.2–2.2°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1966Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 58-year average. Warmest: 2015. Coolest: 1985.2023

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5918118
NOAA station: CA001141455 · CASTLEGAR A
Station distance: 3.2 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 30 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 49.32°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from CASTLEGAR A is what differs

Ootischenia→Genelle→Blueberry Creek→Brilliant→Kinnaird→Lower China Creek→

Or put two places side by side: Castlegar vs Ootischenia

Best time to visitCastlegar.