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Best time to visit
Dunsmuir.

July leads for comfortable weather in Dunsmuir: typically 23°C by day, 12.3°C at night, with 25 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high23°C

Typical low12.3°C

Rain in July25 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · June

90climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

56climate match

Outdoors

June

June · August · September

92climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 90 — days reach only 6.4°C, 18° 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

56.4° / 1.3°

Feb

57.6° / 1.1°

Mar

59.8° / 2.3°

Apr

3113° / 4.4°

May

5717.1° / 7.7°

Jun

7419.9° / 10.7°

Jul

9023° / 12.3°

Aug

8822.7° / 12°

Sep

6518.9° / 9.2°

Oct

2213.2° / 5.9°

Nov

58.9° / 3.2°

Dec

56° / 1.3°

Monthly climate evidence for Dunsmuir — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 2 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	6.4°C	1.3°C	212 mm	17.3	7.1°C	8 h 36	5	Strong coverage
February	7.6°C	1.1°C	128 mm	13.3	7.2°C	10 h 02	5	Strong coverage
March	9.8°C	2.3°C	132 mm	15.8	7.9°C	11 h 43	5	Strong coverage
April	13°C	4.4°C	73 mm	12.1	9.7°C	13 h 39	31	Strong coverage
May	17.1°C	7.7°C	49 mm	9.1	12.7°C	15 h 18	57	Strong coverage
June	19.9°C	10.7°C	42 mm	7.5	15.2°C	16 h 14	74	Strong coverage
July	23°C	12.3°C	25 mm	4.4	16.9°C	15 h 52	90	Strong coverage
August	22.7°C	12°C	35 mm	5.2	17.1°C	14 h 25	88	Strong coverage
September	18.9°C	9.2°C	56 mm	7.7	14.7°C	12 h 32	65	Strong coverage
October	13.2°C	5.9°C	144 mm	14.5	11.6°C	10 h 41	22	Strong coverage
November	8.9°C	3.2°C	221 mm	17	9.4°C	9 h 01	5	Strong coverage
December	6°C	1.3°C	185 mm	16.8	7.8°C	8 h 11	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Dunsmuir runs +1.1°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

+1.3

Feb

+0.2

Mar

+0.5

Apr

+0.8

May

+1.6

Jun

+1.3

Jul

+1.8

Aug

+2.4

Sep

+1.5

Oct

+0.9

Nov

+0.8

Dec

+0.1

July daytime highs, 2011–2023. Last recorded: 25.1°C.

Records at QUALICUM R FISH RESEARCH, 1962–2024
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	16.0°C17 Jan 2016	-15.6°C30 Jan 1969	117 mm14 Jan 1973	432 mm1992 · driest 23 mm in 1985	61
February	16.1°C19 Feb 1977	-13.0°C3 Feb 1989	99 mm1 Feb 1991	343 mm1999 · driest 14 mm in 1993	60
March	19.5°C29 Mar 2004	-9.0°C3 Mar 1989	117 mm17 Mar 1997	251 mm2003 · driest 17 mm in 1992	61
April	24.0°C30 Apr 1998	-2.8°C12 Apr 1968	42 mm15 Apr 1997	150 mm1970 · driest 10 mm in 1973	59
May	31.5°C29 May 1983	0.0°C24 May 1975	28 mm23 May 1973	116 mm1984 · driest 2 mm in 1992	59
June	31.5°C18 Jun 2004	2.8°C1 Jun 1973	34 mm25 Jun 1980	97 mm1990 · driest 0 mm in 2015	57
July	33.0°C28 Jul 2009	5.0°C1 Jul 1972	31 mm7 Jul 1997	83 mm1964 · driest 0 mm in 1985	59
August	31.5°C25 Aug 2016	2.0°C29 Aug 2020	66 mm29 Aug 1991	131 mm1991 · driest 0 mm in 1967	60
September	32.0°C1 Sep 1987	-1.0°C25 Sep 2013	166 mm26 Sep 2023	368 mm2023 · driest 3 mm in 1975	60
October	24.0°C6 Oct 2022	-6.0°C31 Oct 1984	80 mm30 Oct 1981	347 mm2023 · driest 11 mm in 1987	60
November	18.0°C6 Nov 2014	-14.0°C29 Nov 1985	105 mm15 Nov 2009	460 mm1975 · driest 50 mm in 1985	60
December	17.0°C24 Dec 2005	-14.4°C28 Dec 1968	85 mm26 Dec 1980	386 mm1979 · driest 28 mm in 2013	60

Typical days per month at QUALICUM R FISH RESEARCH, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	11	7	2
February	0	0	12	4	2
March	0	0	8	4	1
April	0	0	3	2	0
May	<1	0	<1	1	0
June	3	<1	0	1	0
July	8	1	0	<1	0
August	8	<1	0	1	0
September	<1	0	0	2	0
October	0	0	2	5	0
November	0	0	7	8	1
December	0	0	12	6	2

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was July (scoring 86); on 2011–2025 it is August (96). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in QUALICUM R FISH RESEARCH’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%	54%	20%	71%	4.0–7.8°C
February	0%	46%	16%	64%	5.9–9.1°C
March	0%	48%	12%	63%	8.1–11.0°C
April	2%	39%	6%	51%	11.3–14.0°C
May	17%	29%	4%	33%	14.9–18.4°C
June	40%	24%	3%	25%	17.8–22.0°C
July	74%	15%	3%	13%	20.4–24.5°C
August	71%	17%	3%	18%	20.3–24.0°C
September	30%	26%	6%	31%	16.9–20.3°C
October	2%	44%	16%	61%	12.4–14.2°C
November	0%	57%	25%	79%	7.2–9.6°C
December	0%	55%	22%	75%	3.7–7.7°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.

1963Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 55-year average. Warmest: 2015. Coolest: 1985.2023

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5944266
NOAA station: CA001026565 · QUALICUM R FISH RESEARCH
Station distance: 1.6 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 27 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 49.39°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 2 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 QUALICUM R FISH RESEARCH is what differs

Bowser→

Or put two places side by side: Dunsmuir vs Bowser

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June

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Dunsmuir runs +1.1°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Dunsmuir.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Dunsmuir runs +1.1°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.