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Climate

With 1,906+ hours of sunshine and only eleven days a year below 0°C, Pender Harbour on the Sunshine Coast is a comfortable place to live, work and play.

It's called Sunshine Coast because we have more sunshine than almost anywhere in British Columbia— second only to Victoria airport.

The climate is Coastal Temperate (not Rainforest), with warm, dry summers and mild, rainy winters. Vancouver Island shelters us from harsh Pacific Ocean weather systems, thus creating a “rainshadow” effect.

Climate Normals

Climate normals are weather conditions averaged by the day or month (not record highs and lows).

Since 1954, the Merry Island Weather Station has kept weather statistics. Their hottest day recorded is Aug. 4, 1961, when the temperature hit a sweltering 32.2° C.

	Monthly Sunshine	Monthly Rainfall	Monthly Snowfall	Daily High Temp	Daily Low Temp
January	46.2 hrs	116.3 mm	11.2 cm	6.0° C	2.6° C
February	85.7 hrs	97.9 mm	6.7 cm	7.5°	3.4°
March	127.7 hrs	78.6 mm	1.5 cm	9.2°	4.3°
April	190.8 hrs	60.4 mm	0.3 cm	11.8°	6.2°
May	225.7 hrs	54.9 mm	nil	15.6°	9.3°
June	230.1 hrs	46.9 mm	nil	18.7°	12.4°
July	283.0 hrs	41.5 mm	nil	21.0°	14.3°
August	275.3 hrs	38.1 mm	nil	21.1°	14.6°
September	212.4 hrs	63.1 mm	nil	17.8°	12.1°
October	115.0 hrs	108.8 mm	nil	12.8°	8.5°
November	55.8 hrs	148.5 mm	2.5 cm	8.8°	5.2°
December	54.9 hrs	140.1 mm	10.6 cm	6.5°	3.2°

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“The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.” Patrick Young.

“Don’t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while.” Kin Hubbard.

“If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?” Stephen Wright.

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