Climate averages 1991–2020
Burnaby weather
in October.
A cool, very wet month: the 6th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a cool month in Burnaby: daytime highs average 13.3°C and nights cool to about 7.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 246 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes October a very wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 50 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is New Westminster (7 km away). In October its highs average 13.2°C, about as warm as Burnaby, with 246 mm of rain.
Among the 86 cities listed in Canada, Burnaby ranks joint 36th of 86 for the warmest October highs and joint 80th of 86 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 86 cities is 12.7°C; Burnaby is 0.6°C warmer than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 5.2°C to 8.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 246 mm to 349 mm.
The annual picture
October in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Burnaby climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.4°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 316 | 19.0 | 8.79 h |
| February | 6.9°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 191 | 15.6 | 10.110 h |
| March | 8.9°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 252 | 19.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 12.3°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 175 | 16.9 | 13.714 h |
| May | 16.4°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 117 | 12.5 | 15.315 h |
| June | 18.8°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 94 | 11.5 | 16.216 h |
| July | 22.2°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 53 | 6.6 | 15.816 h |
| August | 22.4°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 73 | 7.4 | 14.414 h |
| September | 19.1°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 125 | 10.2 | 12.713 h |
| October, selected | 13.3°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 246 | 16.3 | 10.811 h |
| November | 8.1°C3.4°C | 3.4°C | 349 | 19.9 | 9.29 h |
| December | 5.0°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 307 | 19.4 | 8.38 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
October in nearby cities
- New Westminster in OctoberCanada · 7 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 6.5°C · 246 mm rain
- North Vancouver in OctoberCanada · 10 kmHigh 13.1°C · Low 7.9°C · 246 mm rain
- Vancouver in OctoberCanada · 12 kmHigh 12.9°C · Low 7.7°C · 246 mm rain
- Coquitlam in OctoberCanada · 13 kmHigh 13.9°C · Low 7.3°C · 271 mm rain
- Surrey in OctoberCanada · 20 kmHigh 13.4°C · Low 6.6°C · 174 mm rain
- Delta in OctoberCanada · 21 kmHigh 13.6°C · Low 7.9°C · 155 mm rain
- Maple Ridge in OctoberCanada · 26 kmHigh 13.6°C · Low 6.5°C · 319 mm rain
- Langley in OctoberCanada · 28 kmHigh 13.8°C · Low 6.8°C · 174 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Burnaby) is explained once on the Burnaby year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Vancouver, North Vancouver and New Westminster lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.