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Best time to visit
Saltery Bay.

July leads for comfortable weather in Saltery Bay: typically 22.6°C by day, 12.3°C at night, with 37 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJuly

Typical high22.6°C

Typical low12.3°C

Rain in July37 mm

Comfort

July

July · August · June

88climate match

Beach

July

July · August · June

53climate match

Outdoors

June

June · July · August

84climate match

The weakest month is January, scoring 5 against July’s 88 — days reach only 5.9°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

55.9° / 1.2°

Feb

56.9° / 0.8°

Mar

69.2° / 2°

Apr

2712.7° / 3.9°

May

5317.1° / 7.3°

Jun

6619.5° / 10.3°

Jul

8822.6° / 12.3°

Aug

8722.7° / 12.2°

Sep

6318.9° / 9.6°

Oct

2212.7° / 6°

Nov

58.1° / 2.8°

Dec

55.5° / 1°

Monthly climate evidence for Saltery Bay — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 18 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	5.9°C	1.2°C	165 mm	17.4	7.0°C	8 h 33	5	Strong coverage
February	6.9°C	0.8°C	108 mm	13.7	7.1°C	10 h 00	5	Strong coverage
March	9.2°C	2°C	110 mm	15.3	7.9°C	11 h 43	6	Strong coverage
April	12.7°C	3.9°C	84 mm	12.7	9.8°C	13 h 40	27	Strong coverage
May	17.1°C	7.3°C	68 mm	9.5	13.1°C	15 h 21	53	Strong coverage
June	19.5°C	10.3°C	67 mm	9.8	15.6°C	16 h 18	66	Strong coverage
July	22.6°C	12.3°C	37 mm	5.9	17.3°C	15 h 55	88	Strong coverage
August	22.7°C	12.2°C	45 mm	6	17.4°C	14 h 27	87	Strong coverage
September	18.9°C	9.6°C	69 mm	8.8	15.0°C	12 h 32	63	Strong coverage
October	12.7°C	6°C	131 mm	15.6	11.6°C	10 h 39	22	Strong coverage
November	8.1°C	2.8°C	173 mm	18.3	9.3°C	8 h 59	5	Strong coverage
December	5.5°C	1°C	165 mm	18.4	7.7°C	8 h 08	5	Strong coverage

What has changed

Saltery Bay runs +0.6°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

+0.9

Feb

-0.7

Mar

+0.4

Apr

+0.2

May

+1.3

Jun

+0.6

Jul

+1.2

Aug

+1.5

Sep

+0.5

Oct

+0.3

Nov

+0.6

Dec

+0.3

July daytime highs, 2011–2023. Last recorded: 25.5°C.

Records at POWELL RIVER A, 1954–2024
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	15.0°C20 Jan 1968	-16.7°C30 Jan 1969	67 mm29 Jan 2004	293 mm2018 · driest 22 mm in 1963	65
February	17.8°C27 Feb 1968	-15.0°C3 Feb 1989	53 mm23 Feb 1957	258 mm1983 · driest 9 mm in 1993	65
March	19.5°C17 Mar 2024	-12.2°C4 Mar 1955	69 mm17 Mar 1997	195 mm2016 · driest 19 mm in 2019	64
April	25.6°C27 Apr 1987	-5.0°C22 Apr 1972	34 mm8 Apr 2003	166 mm2003 · driest 12 mm in 1973	65
May	34.1°C29 May 1983	-4.4°C1 May 1954	66 mm14 May 1998	162 mm1993 · driest 11 mm in 1956	65
June	37.0°C27 Jun 2021	1.7°C4 Jun 1976	57 mm10 Jun 1995	142 mm2012 · driest 2 mm in 2015	63
July	34.4°C29 Jul 1960	3.9°C2 Jul 1962	45 mm23 Jul 2014	97 mm2011 · driest 0 mm in 2021	64
August	34.5°C12 Aug 2021	1.7°C19 Aug 1958	44 mm29 Aug 1991	176 mm1962 · driest 0 mm in 1974	64
September	31.5°C3 Sep 1988	-1.1°C27 Sep 1972	52 mm28 Sep 1971	217 mm2018 · driest 1 mm in 1993	63
October	24.9°C1 Oct 1987	-5.5°C31 Oct 1984	80 mm23 Oct 1968	355 mm1975 · driest 20 mm in 2013	64
November	17.5°C4 Nov 2023	-14.4°C15 Nov 1955	58 mm14 Nov 2017	304 mm1983 · driest 63 mm in 1957	64
December	14.1°C9 Dec 2014	-13.9°C16 Dec 1964	63 mm12 Dec 1960	269 mm2015 · driest 48 mm in 1983	64

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

How often, not how much — every day in POWELL RIVER 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%	56%	18%	74%	3.9–7.4°C
February	0%	48%	13%	65%	5.1–8.8°C
March	0%	48%	11%	65%	7.7–10.6°C
April	3%	41%	7%	53%	11.0–13.8°C
May	21%	30%	7%	38%	14.8–19.4°C
June	38%	30%	8%	40%	17.7–22.3°C
July	71%	18%	4%	18%	20.2–25.0°C
August	71%	19%	5%	22%	20.7–24.5°C
September	32%	28%	7%	38%	17.0–20.8°C
October	2%	48%	16%	70%	11.6–14.3°C
November	0%	59%	21%	81%	6.6–9.1°C
December	0%	57%	19%	79%	3.2–6.9°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.

1954Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 56-year average. Warmest: 2015. Coolest: 1956.2023

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 6139732
NOAA station: CA001046391 · POWELL RIVER A
Station distance: 23.7 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 28 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 49.78°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 18 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 POWELL RIVER A is what differs

Powell River→Gillies Bay→Stillwater→Westview→Brew Bay→Lang Bay→

Or put two places side by side: Saltery Bay vs Powell River

Best time to visitSaltery Bay.

July

July

June

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Saltery Bay runs +0.6°Con the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Saltery Bay.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Saltery Bay runs +0.6°C
on the 1961–1990 baseline.

Nearby, measured,
and named.