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Best time to visit
Dolphin Beach.

July leads for comfortable weather in Dolphin Beach: typically 21.4°C by day, 15.1°C at night, with 19 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high21.4°C

Typical low15.1°C

Rain in July19 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · June

90climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

60climate match

Outdoors

June

June · July · August

88climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 90 — days reach only 7.4°C, 17° 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

57.4° / 3.4°

Feb

157.5° / 3.5°

Mar

239.5° / 4.9°

Apr

4112.3° / 6.8°

May

6316.4° / 10.4°

Jun

7618.7° / 12.7°

Jul

9021.4° / 15.1°

Aug

9021.3° / 15.2°

Sep

7218° / 12.5°

Oct

3912.8° / 9°

Nov

179.6° / 5.5°

Dec

57.1° / 3.9°

Monthly climate evidence for Dolphin Beach — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 10 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	7.4°C	3.4°C	105 mm	14.7	6.9°C	8 h 37	5	Good coverage
February	7.5°C	3.5°C	58 mm	10.3	7.0°C	10 h 03	15	Good coverage
March	9.5°C	4.9°C	60 mm	10.9	7.9°C	11 h 43	23	Good coverage
April	12.3°C	6.8°C	39 mm	8.8	9.8°C	13 h 39	41	Good coverage
May	16.4°C	10.4°C	31 mm	6.8	13.0°C	15 h 17	63	Good coverage
June	18.7°C	12.7°C	27 mm	5.9	15.5°C	16 h 13	76	Good coverage
July	21.4°C	15.1°C	19 mm	3.8	17.4°C	15 h 51	90	Good coverage
August	21.3°C	15.2°C	21 mm	3.8	17.5°C	14 h 24	90	Good coverage
September	18°C	12.5°C	39 mm	6.6	15.0°C	12 h 32	72	Good coverage
October	12.8°C	9°C	74 mm	11.2	11.7°C	10 h 41	39	Good coverage
November	9.6°C	5.5°C	101 mm	13.4	9.3°C	9 h 02	17	Good coverage
December	7.1°C	3.9°C	97 mm	14.6	7.6°C	8 h 12	5	Good coverage

Records at BALLENAS ISLAND, 1992–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	15.4°C30 Jan 1997	-8.5°C12 Jan 2024	46 mm3 Jan 2019	197 mm2006 · driest 29 mm in 2017	25
February	14.1°C15 Feb 2007	-4.1°C11 Feb 1997	24 mm5 Feb 2015	103 mm2015 · driest 0 mm in 1993	26
March	16.9°C28 Mar 1994	-2.0°C5 Mar 1997	40 mm18 Mar 1997	139 mm2016 · driest 2 mm in 2019	23
April	22.5°C30 Apr 1998	-2.5°C6 Apr 1997	25 mm2 Apr 2010	85 mm2022 · driest 0 mm in 1995	25
May	26.1°C27 May 1993	1.4°C2 May 1993	19 mm27 May 1998	75 mm1993 · driest 4 mm in 2018	26
June	30.4°C27 Jun 2021	4.5°C10 Jun 2001	18 mm16 Jun 2007	61 mm2007 · driest 0 mm in 2015	26
July	33.7°C27 Jul 1998	7.9°C12 Jul 1998	20 mm29 Jul 2008	43 mm2011 · driest 0 mm in 2021	29
August	31.8°C24 Aug 2000	3.4°C21 Aug 2001	26 mm26 Aug 1997	58 mm1997 · driest 0 mm in 2002	28
September	30.0°C14 Sep 2000	4.5°C7 Sep 1992	40 mm14 Sep 1997	98 mm2019 · driest 0 mm in 2022	28
October	20.9°C9 Oct 1996	2.2°C6 Oct 1992	48 mm18 Oct 2023	175 mm2016 · driest 16 mm in 2013	25
November	21.9°C23 Nov 1997	-4.7°C28 Nov 2006	37 mm15 Nov 2021	217 mm2009 · driest 33 mm in 1993	26
December	15.5°C1 Dec 2021	-7.0°C27 Dec 2021	32 mm5 Dec 2015	166 mm2015 · driest 12 mm in 2013	23

Typical days per month at BALLENAS ISLAND, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	0	4	4
February	0	3	2
March	0	<1	2
April	0	<1	<1
May	<1	0	<1
June	1	0	<1
July	3	0	<1
August	3	0	<1
September	<1	0	1
October	0	0	2
November	0	<1	3
December	0	2	3

How often, not how much — every day in BALLENAS ISLAND’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%	48%	12%	67%	6.3–8.8°C
February	0%	38%	7%	51%	6.0–9.0°C
March	0%	36%	5%	47%	8.5–10.5°C
April	<1%	30%	2%	38%	10.4–14.4°C
May	12%	24%	2%	25%	14.2–18.0°C
June	27%	22%	2%	25%	17.1–20.5°C
July	69%	14%	1%	14%	20.1–22.6°C
August	69%	13%	2%	14%	19.8–23.5°C
September	21%	23%	3%	27%	16.5–20.1°C
October	<1%	37%	7%	52%	11.7–14.2°C
November	0%	47%	11%	69%	8.2–10.8°C
December	0%	48%	11%	68%	5.4–8.1°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.

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5941017
NOAA station: CA001020590 · BALLENAS ISLAND
Station distance: 7.3 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 16 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 49.29°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 10 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
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 BALLENAS ISLAND is what differs

Nanoose Bay→Lantzville→Fairwinds→

Or put two places side by side: Dolphin Beach vs Nanoose Bay

Best time to visitDolphin Beach.

July

July

June

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Dolphin Beach.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.