Climate averages 1991–2020
New Westminster weather
in February.
A cold, very wet month: the 10th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a cold month in New Westminster: daytime highs average 6.8°C and nights cool to about -0.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 191 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes February a very wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 06 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Burnaby (7 km away). In February its highs average 6.9°C, about as warm as New Westminster, with 191 mm of rain.
Among the 86 cities listed in Canada, New Westminster ranks joint 9th of 86 for the warmest February highs and joint 80th of 86 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 86 cities is -0.9°C; New Westminster is 7.7°C warmer than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 2.3°C to 9.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 191 mm to 252 mm.
The annual picture
February 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
New Westminster climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 5.0°C-0.5°C | -0.5°C | 316 | 19.0 | 8.79 h |
| February, selected | 6.8°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 191 | 15.6 | 10.110 h |
| March | 9.2°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 252 | 19.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 12.6°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 175 | 16.9 | 13.714 h |
| May | 16.6°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 117 | 12.5 | 15.315 h |
| June | 18.9°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 94 | 11.5 | 16.216 h |
| July | 22.4°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 53 | 6.6 | 15.816 h |
| August | 22.6°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 73 | 7.4 | 14.414 h |
| September | 19.3°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 125 | 10.2 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.2°C6.5°C | 6.5°C | 246 | 16.3 | 10.811 h |
| November | 7.9°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 349 | 19.9 | 9.29 h |
| December | 4.6°C-0.4°C | -0.4°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
February in nearby cities
- Burnaby in FebruaryCanada · 7 kmHigh 6.9°C · Low 0.9°C · 191 mm rain
- Coquitlam in FebruaryCanada · 13 kmHigh 7.0°C · Low 0.3°C · 211 mm rain
- Surrey in FebruaryCanada · 13 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low 0.1°C · 139 mm rain
- Vancouver in FebruaryCanada · 16 kmHigh 6.9°C · Low 1.3°C · 191 mm rain
- Delta in FebruaryCanada · 17 kmHigh 7.7°C · Low 1.6°C · 125 mm rain
- North Vancouver in FebruaryCanada · 17 kmHigh 6.8°C · Low 1.2°C · 191 mm rain
- Langley in FebruaryCanada · 22 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low 0.1°C · 139 mm rain
- Maple Ridge in FebruaryCanada · 22 kmHigh 6.7°C · Low -0.7°C · 246 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 New Westminster) is explained once on the New Westminster year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Vancouver, Burnaby and North Vancouver lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.