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Best time to visit
Metrotown.

August leads for comfortable weather in Metrotown: typically 22°C by day, 13.8°C at night, with 49 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortAugust

Typical high22°C

Typical low13.8°C

Rain in August49 mm

Comfort

August

August · July · June

87climate match

Beach

August

August · July · June

54climate match

Outdoors

August

August · July · June

82climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against August’s 87 — days reach only 6°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° / 1.5°

Feb

56.9° / 1.6°

Mar

59.1° / 2.9°

Apr

1912.7° / 5°

May

4616.7° / 8.5°

Jun

6118.7° / 10.7°

Jul

8321.9° / 13.2°

Aug

8722° / 13.8°

Sep

5918.1° / 11.4°

Oct

1412.5° / 7.4°

Nov

57.6° / 3.1°

Dec

55.2° / 1°

Monthly climate evidence for Metrotown — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 14 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	6°C	1.5°C	287 mm	19.6	7.1°C	8 h 37	5	Good coverage
February	6.9°C	1.6°C	143 mm	15.2	7.2°C	10 h 03	5	Good coverage
March	9.1°C	2.9°C	203 mm	18.7	7.9°C	11 h 43	5	Strong coverage
April	12.7°C	5°C	140 mm	15.1	9.6°C	13 h 38	19	Strong coverage
May	16.7°C	8.5°C	106 mm	11.6	12.2°C	15 h 17	46	Strong coverage
June	18.7°C	10.7°C	81 mm	11.3	14.4°C	16 h 13	61	Strong coverage
July	21.9°C	13.2°C	59 mm	6.3	16.1°C	15 h 50	83	Strong coverage
August	22°C	13.8°C	49 mm	5.4	16.3°C	14 h 24	87	Strong coverage
September	18.1°C	11.4°C	101 mm	9.2	14.3°C	12 h 32	59	Strong coverage
October	12.5°C	7.4°C	194 mm	16	11.3°C	10 h 41	14	Good coverage
November	7.6°C	3.1°C	286 mm	19.5	9.1°C	9 h 03	5	Strong coverage
December	5.2°C	1°C	252 mm	20.2	7.7°C	8 h 13	5	Good coverage

What has changed

Metrotown runs +1.2°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

+2.2

Feb

—

Mar

+0.7

Apr

+1.2

May

+2.2

Jun

+1.4

Jul

+1.8

Aug

+1.9

Sep

+0.4

Oct

+0.7

Nov

+0.7

Dec

-0.4

August daytime highs, 2011–2021. Last recorded: 23.6°C.

Records at BURNABY SIMON FRASER U, 1965–2022
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	16.5°C20 Jan 1981	-13.9°C29 Jan 1969	172 mm18 Jan 1968	479 mm1968 · driest 28 mm in 1985	49
February	18.5°C27 Feb 1986	-14.0°C2 Feb 1989	86 mm23 Feb 1986	435 mm1999 · driest 25 mm in 1993	50
March	23.0°C29 Mar 2004	-8.0°C8 Mar 2002	89 mm18 Mar 1997	404 mm1997 · driest 29 mm in 2019	53
April	29.0°C18 Apr 2016	-3.3°C13 Apr 1966	83 mm20 Apr 1972	274 mm1996 · driest 27 mm in 1973	52
May	33.0°C29 May 1983	-0.5°C6 May 2002	48 mm24 May 1974	220 mm1974 · driest 2 mm in 2018	54
June	39.5°C28 Jun 2021	3.0°C11 Jun 2021	62 mm28 Jun 1984	207 mm1981 · driest 1 mm in 2009	55
July	34.0°C21 Jul 2006	5.0°C1 Jul 1979	79 mm11 Jul 1972	153 mm1972 · driest 0 mm in 2021	57
August	33.9°C1 Aug 1965	3.3°C23 Aug 1973	59 mm26 Aug 1991	259 mm1991 · driest 0 mm in 1986	54
September	34.5°C3 Sep 1988	2.0°C30 Sep 2000	94 mm16 Sep 1968	264 mm2021 · driest 1 mm in 1975	55
October	26.5°C1 Oct 1987	-7.0°C31 Oct 1984	119 mm16 Oct 2003	576 mm1967 · driest 29 mm in 2002	49
November	18.5°C8 Nov 2016	-14.0°C27 Nov 1985	95 mm14 Nov 2021	592 mm2021 · driest 94 mm in 2019	53
December	16.1°C2 Dec 1969	-19.4°C29 Dec 1968	124 mm10 Dec 2021	546 mm1966 · driest 47 mm in 2017	51

Typical days per month at BURNABY SIMON FRASER U, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Frost nights	Heavy rain (10 mm+)	Snow days
January	0	0	9	8	3
February	0	0	9	5	2
March	0	0	6	6	2
April	<1	0	1	4	<1
May	2	0	<1	3	0
June	3	<1	0	3	0
July	7	1	0	2	0
August	8	<1	0	1	0
September	2	<1	0	3	0
October	0	0	<1	6	0
November	0	0	5	9	1
December	0	0	10	8	4

How often, not how much — every day in BURNABY SIMON FRASER U’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%	59%	29%	76%	3.0–7.6°C
February	0%	55%	23%	71%	4.2–9.6°C
March	<1%	55%	22%	71%	6.8–10.6°C
April	5%	46%	16%	61%	10.2–13.8°C
May	18%	36%	12%	46%	14.0–18.6°C
June	32%	35%	10%	43%	16.0–20.9°C
July	60%	20%	7%	20%	18.9–23.4°C
August	59%	19%	6%	22%	18.8–23.7°C
September	28%	30%	13%	35%	15.7–20.4°C
October	2%	49%	24%	68%	10.8–13.9°C
November	0%	63%	33%	83%	5.5–9.4°C
December	0%	62%	30%	82%	1.9–6.8°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 34-year average. Warmest: 1992. Coolest: 1985.2016

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 6072539
NOAA station: CA001101158 · BURNABY SIMON FRASER U
Station distance: 8.9 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 23 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 49.23°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 14 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 BURNABY SIMON FRASER U is what differs

Burnaby→Marlborough→Willingdon Heights→Garden Village→Burnaby Heights→Cascade Heights→

Or put two places side by side: Metrotown vs Burnaby

Best time to visitMetrotown.

August

August

August

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Metrotown runs +1.2°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Metrotown.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Metrotown runs +1.2°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.