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Best time to visit
Kensington-Cedar Cottage.

July leads for comfortable weather in Kensington-Cedar Cottage: typically 23°C by day, 14.9°C at night, with 37 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high23°C

Typical low14.9°C

Rain in July37 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · June

95climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

63climate match

Outdoors

June

June · September · July

84climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 95 — 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° / 3.2°

Feb

68.4° / 3.3°

Mar

710.5° / 4.6°

Apr

3213.9° / 6.9°

May

6017.8° / 10.2°

Jun

7520.2° / 12.7°

Jul

9523° / 14.9°

Aug

9323° / 14.8°

Sep

7019.4° / 12.1°

Oct

2913.8° / 8.5°

Nov

59.6° / 5.2°

Dec

57.1° / 3.1°

Monthly climate evidence for Kensington-Cedar Cottage — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 15 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	7.4°C	3.2°C	217 mm	16.8	7.1°C	8 h 37	5	Strong coverage
February	8.4°C	3.3°C	116 mm	13.7	7.2°C	10 h 03	6	Strong coverage
March	10.5°C	4.6°C	163 mm	16.1	7.9°C	11 h 43	7	Strong coverage
April	13.9°C	6.9°C	114 mm	13.1	9.6°C	13 h 38	32	Strong coverage
May	17.8°C	10.2°C	72 mm	9.1	12.2°C	15 h 17	60	Strong coverage
June	20.2°C	12.7°C	60 mm	8	14.4°C	16 h 13	75	Strong coverage
July	23°C	14.9°C	37 mm	4.4	16.1°C	15 h 51	95	Strong coverage
August	23°C	14.8°C	44 mm	4.7	16.3°C	14 h 24	93	Strong coverage
September	19.4°C	12.1°C	74 mm	7.3	14.3°C	12 h 32	70	Strong coverage
October	13.8°C	8.5°C	155 mm	13.3	11.3°C	10 h 41	29	Strong coverage
November	9.6°C	5.2°C	237 mm	17.1	9.1°C	9 h 02	5	Strong coverage
December	7.1°C	3.1°C	203 mm	17	7.7°C	8 h 13	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Kensington-Cedar Cottage 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

+1.4

Feb

-0.5

Mar

+0.4

Apr

+1.1

May

+2.0

Jun

+1.2

Jul

+2.1

Aug

+1.9

Sep

+1.1

Oct

+0.3

Nov

+0.6

Dec

+0.3

July daytime highs, 2012–2025. Last recorded: 24.8°C.

Records at VANCOUVER HARBOUR CS, 1958–2026
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	15.6°C21 Jan 1981	-13.3°C29 Jan 1969	135 mm18 Jan 1968	389 mm1992 · driest 9 mm in 2020	62
February	16.4°C3 Feb 1992	-6.7°C19 Feb 1986	65 mm24 Feb 1979	390 mm1961 · driest 6 mm in 1993	64
March	19.8°C29 Mar 2004	-5.0°C3 Mar 1976	67 mm18 Mar 1997	325 mm2007 · driest 17 mm in 1975	63
April	26.7°C18 Apr 2016	-1.1°C13 Apr 1970	46 mm3 Apr 1991	206 mm1996 · driest 0 mm in 2020	59
May	32.7°C29 May 1983	1.1°C20 May 1975	59 mm28 May 2016	139 mm1981 · driest 1 mm in 2018	60
June	33.8°C28 Jun 2021	2.8°C25 Jun 1974	65 mm13 Jun 1992	193 mm1981 · driest 3 mm in 2015	61
July	34.9°C29 Jul 2009	2.8°C6 Jul 1974	74 mm11 Jul 1972	122 mm1983 · driest 0 mm in 2013	62
August	32.2°C13 Aug 2021	5.0°C29 Aug 1962	49 mm30 Aug 1991	240 mm1991 · driest 0 mm in 1986	62
September	28.5°C1 Sep 1998	1.7°C16 Sep 1962	76 mm17 Sep 2021	205 mm2021 · driest 0 mm in 1975	61
October	24.2°C3 Oct 1980	-3.2°C31 Oct 1984	142 mm16 Oct 2003	424 mm1967 · driest 13 mm in 1974	62
November	18.0°C8 Nov 2016	-9.9°C28 Nov 1985	96 mm28 Nov 2003	481 mm2006 · driest 85 mm in 2007	61
December	15.2°C3 Dec 2015	-15.6°C30 Dec 1968	78 mm13 Dec 2018	420 mm1979 · driest 84 mm in 1992	59

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

The best month has moved. On the 1961–1990 numbers the strongest month here was August (scoring 89); on 2011–2025 it is July (98). Both are scored the same way, from the same station — only the climate underneath changed.

How often, not how much — every day in VANCOUVER HARBOUR CS’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%	24%	73%	4.6–8.9°C
February	0%	49%	19%	65%	6.5–10.0°C
March	0%	48%	17%	67%	8.6–11.7°C
April	3%	41%	12%	56%	11.8–14.8°C
May	20%	30%	8%	38%	15.4–19.3°C
June	43%	27%	7%	32%	18.0–21.8°C
July	75%	16%	5%	15%	21.0–24.7°C
August	75%	17%	5%	18%	20.5–24.1°C
September	35%	25%	9%	31%	17.5–20.7°C
October	3%	43%	18%	60%	12.9–15.2°C
November	0%	56%	26%	76%	8.0–10.8°C
December	0%	57%	26%	78%	4.7–8.6°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.

1969Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 44-year average. Warmest: 2015. Coolest: 1985.2025

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 5991085
NOAA station: CA001108446 · VANCOUVER HARBOUR CS
Station distance: 6.6 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 27 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 49.25°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 15 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 VANCOUVER HARBOUR CS is what differs

Vancouver→North Vancouver→East Hastings→Downtown Vancouver→Renfrew-Collingwood→West End→

Or put two places side by side: Kensington-Cedar Cottage vs Vancouver

Best time to visitKensington-Cedar Cottage.

July

July

June

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Kensington-Cedar Cottage runs +1.0°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Kensington-Cedar Cottage.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Kensington-Cedar Cottage runs +1.0°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.