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Most of Canada has a continental climate, which features a large annual range of temperatures, cold winters, and warm summers. Daily average temperatures are near −15 °C (5 °F), but can drop below −50 °C (−58 °F) with severe wind chills. [1]
This is a list of countries and sovereign states by temperature. Average yearly temperature is calculated by averaging the minimum and maximum daily temperatures in the country, averaged for the years 1991 – 2020, from World Bank Group , derived from raw gridded climatologies from the Climatic Research Unit .
Year Highest Average Lowest Average Location Temperature Location Temperature 2024 Windsor, Ontario: 12.75 °C (55 °F) Eureka, Nunavut: −15.19 °C (5 °F) 2023 Qualicum Beach, British Columbia (Sisters Island) 12.3 °C (54 °F) Eureka, Nunavut: −17.1 °C (1 °F) 2022 Qualicum Beach, British Columbia (Sisters Island) 11.7 °C (53 °F)
The future of the permafrost is uncertain because the Arctic has been warming at three times the global average as a result of climate change in Canada. [129] Canada's annual average temperature over land has risen by 1.7 °C (3.1 °F), with changes ranging from 1.1 to 2.3 °C (2.0 to 4.1 °F) in various regions, since 1948. [117]
Average winter temperatures rose by 3.3 °C between 1948 and 2016 while average summer temperature only rose by 1.5 °C. [ 24 ] According to Environment and Climate Change Canada "warming over the 20th century is indisputable and largely due to human activities" [ 25 ] adding "Canada's rate of warming is about twice the global rate: a 2° C ...
The coldest month on record at Vancouver International Airport was January 1950 when an Arctic air inflow moved in from the Fraser Valley and remained locked over the city, with an average low of −9.7 °C (14.5 °F) and an average high of only −2.9 °C (26.8 °F), making for a daily average of −6.3 °C (20.7 °F), 10 °C (18 °F) colder ...
On average Edmonton receives 2,299 hours of bright sunshine [14] per year and is one of Canada's sunniest cities. [4] The summer of 2006 was a particularly warm one for Edmonton, as temperatures reached 29 °C (84 °F) or higher more than 20 times from mid-May to early September.
Greatest precipitation in one year: 9,479 mm (373.2 in) [11] ... List of extreme temperatures in Canada; Temperature in Canada; ... map of Temperature Ranges ...