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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 .
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)
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 ...
This is a list of cities by average temperature (monthly and yearly). The temperatures listed are averages of the daily highs and lows. Thus, the actual daytime temperature in a given month may be considerably higher than the temperature listed here, depending on how large the difference between daily highs and lows is.
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 ...
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]
Edmonton has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dfb). [1] It falls into the NRC 4a Plant Hardiness Zone. [2] The city is known for having cold winters. [3] Its average daily temperatures range from a low of −10.4 °C (13.3 °F) in January to a summer peak of 23 °C (73.4 °F) in July. [4]