Gordon Head climate — normals and trends
Gordon Head has a warm-summer mediterranean climate, averaging 9.8 °C annually with 951 mm of rain per year.
Climate normals · ERA5
Gordon HeadBritish Columbia
- coords
- 48.48°, -123.32°
- period
- 1940–2025 · 86 yrs
The normals for this period
The average of every indicator across the whole window: temperature, water, sky, wind and notable days.
Mean daily temperature
9.8°C
Average daily high
11.0°C
Average daily low
8.7°C
Annual rainfall
951mm
Sunshine / day
9.0h
Mean relative humidity
82%
Average peak wind
23.9km/h
Seasonal range
9.3°C
Frost days (< 0 °C)
5 d/yr
Hot days (≥ 30 °C)
0 d/yr
Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)
128 d/yr
Annual snowfall
16.2 cm
Average feels-like high
8.9 °C
Average feels-like low
5.1 °C
Average peak gust
33.4 km/h
Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)
0 d/yr
Solar radiation
13.4 MJ/m²
Has the climate changed?
What the yearly averages say about warming here, and whether the slope is statistically solid.
+0.8 °C
since 1940
+0.1 °C per decade · r² = 0.23 · p = < 0.001
Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).
Climate month by month
How an average year unfolds: when it rains, when it turns hot, when the sun is out.
A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.
Records for the period
The most extreme days ever measured here, then the year-by-year detail.
Hottest day
26.8 °C
16 July 1941
Coldest day
-11.3 °C
16 December 1964
Wettest day
75 mm
16 October 2003
Windiest day
68.8 km/h
12 October 1962
Strongest gust
101.5 km/h
26 November 1949
Hottest feels-like
27.0 °C
16 July 1941
Coldest feels-like
-21.9 °C
16 December 1964
Snowiest day
27.4 cm
29 December 1996
Sunniest day
15.7 h
20 June 2024
Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.
A specific year
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Across the whole year
Month by month
| High | vs. normal | Precipitation | vs. normal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 6.9 °C | +0.4 °C | 45 mm | -101 mm |
| Feb | 5.9 °C | -1.2 °C | 87 mm | -18 mm |
| Mar | 8.7 °C | +0.6 °C | 126 mm | +38 mm |
| Apr | 10.7 °C | +0.9 °C | 38 mm | -19 mm |
| May | 12.2 °C | 0.0 °C | 31 mm | -6 mm |
| Jun | 14.3 °C | +0.1 °C | 15 mm | -14 mm |
| Jul | 16.4 °C | +0.3 °C | 14 mm | -4 mm |
| Aug | 17.0 °C | +0.7 °C | 38 mm | +16 mm |
| Sep | 15.3 °C | +0.7 °C | 37 mm | -5 mm |
| Oct | 11.8 °C | +0.2 °C | 90 mm | -15 mm |
| Nov | 10.0 °C | +1.2 °C | 100 mm | -49 mm |
| Dec | 8.8 °C | +1.8 °C | 241 mm | +90 mm |
The year's extremes
What was the weather like that day?
The weather actually measured on a given date, anywhere in the covered window.
Climate at a glance
What these normals say about the place, in a few sentences, and the notions needed to read them.
Gordon Head (Canada) has a warm-summer mediterranean climate (Csb) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 9.8 °C and it receives 951 mm of precipitation per year.
These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.
The warmest month is August (14.7 °C on average) and the coldest is January (5.4 °C). Rainfall peaks in December.
Gordon Head averages 5 frost days, 0 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 128 rainy days per year.
Gordon Head has warmed by +0.8 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.09 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.
The hottest day of the period reached 26.8 °C (on 16 July 1941) and the coldest -11.3 °C (on 16 December 1964).
Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the climate of Gordon Head?
Gordon Head has a warm-summer mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 9.8 °C and it receives 951 mm of precipitation per year.
What is the hottest day ever recorded in Gordon Head?
The hottest day measured in Gordon Head between 1940 and 2025 was 16 July 1941, reaching 26.8 °C.
What is the coldest day in Gordon Head?
The coldest day measured in Gordon Head between 1940 and 2025 was 16 December 1964, at -11.3 °C.
Does it snow in Gordon Head?
Yes. Gordon Head gets on average 16.2 cm of snow per year and has around 5 frost days.
Has the climate of Gordon Head warmed?
Yes: Gordon Head warmed by +0.8 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.
What is the wettest day in Gordon Head?
The wettest day measured in Gordon Head between 1940 and 2025 was 16 October 2003, with 75 mm of rain in 24 hours.
What was the windiest day in Gordon Head?
The windiest day measured in Gordon Head between 1940 and 2025 was 12 October 1962, with winds reaching 68.8 km/h.
What is the warmest month in Gordon Head?
The warmest month in Gordon Head is August (14.7 °C on average); the coldest is January (5.4 °C).
How much does it rain in Gordon Head?
Gordon Head receives on average 951 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 128 rainy days.
Is it sunny in Gordon Head?
Gordon Head gets on average 9.0 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,285 hours per year over 1940-2025.
What is the biggest single-day snowfall in Gordon Head?
The heaviest 24-hour snowfall measured in Gordon Head between 1940 and 2025 was 29 December 1996, with 27.4 cm.
Are there tropical nights in Gordon Head?
Almost never: tropical nights (temperature staying above 20 °C) are virtually non-existent in Gordon Head.
What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Gordon Head?
In Gordon Head, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 27.0 °C on 16 July 1941, and the lowest was -21.9 °C on 16 December 1964.
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