Climate and average weather in Vedder Crossing

In Vedder Crossing, the summers are mild, showery, and mostly clear and the winters are cold, snowy, and mostly cloudy.

Best: early July to mid September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Vedder Crossing typically varies from -2°C to 21°C, and is rarely below -10°C or above 27°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while December is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Vedder Crossing for warm-weather activities is from early July to mid September.

Hottest
Aug
21°
Coldest
Dec
-2°
Wettest
Nov
318 mm
Driest
Jul
63 mm
Rain / yr
2215 mm
181 wet days
Daylight
8.0–16.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
39 m
49.1°N
Clearest
Jul
48% cloud

Vedder Crossing weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early July to mid September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Vedder Crossing, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

The hot season lasts 3.2 months, from June 17 to September 22, with daily high temperatures above 17°C. The hottest month of the year in Vedder Crossing is August, with an average high of 21°C and low of 10°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from November 14 to March 4, with daily high temperatures below 6°C. The coldest month of the year in Vedder Crossing is December, with an average low of -2°C and high of 2°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in August.

-10°10°20°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3-2
Feb5-2
Mar70
Apr112
May155
Jun178
Jul2010
Aug2110
Sep187
Oct114
Nov60
Dec2-2

How hot and cold Vedder Crossing really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the coldest nights, wind chill pulls the feels-like down to about -6°C (around January 1), with roughly 166 freezing days a year (feels-like at or below 0°C), worst in January.

-10°10°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan33-5-2
Feb55-4-2
Mar77-30
Apr101102
May151545
Jun171778
Jul20201010
Aug21211010
Sep171877
Oct111124
Nov56-20
Dec22-5-2

Average hourly temperature in Vedder Crossing

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on August afternoons, near 21°C, and coldest before dawn in December, near -2°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Vedder Crossing weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan / -2°29719.2158.50.0
Feb / -2°18915.811.99.80.0
Mar / -1°24319.914.711.60.7
Apr11° / 17517.47.713.42.0
May15° / 13514.62.2153.9
Jun17° / 11313.8015.94.8
Jul20° / 10°637.8015.66.9
Aug21° / 10°718.2014.26.9
Sep18° / 11410.2012.45.7
Oct11° / 217162.310.52.5
Nov / -0°31819.311.88.90.3
Dec / -2°28118.916.38.10.0

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Vedder Crossing gets about 2215 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 6.7 months, from around Oct 12 to May 3, peaking in November at about 66% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 29.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 318 mm over about 19 wet days; July is the driest, with 63 mm. Some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 20 · 66%Jul 29 · 19%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan6119
Feb5816
Mar6320
Apr5817
May4815
Jun4514
Jul268
Aug268
Sep3510
Oct5116
Nov6319
Dec6219

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Vedder Crossing collects about 2215 mm of rain across 181 wet days — roughly 185 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 318 mm, while July is the driest at just 63 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 40% of the year’s total, and some of the cold-season precipitation falls as snow.

050100150200250300350JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2971892431751351136371114217318281
Rainfall (mm)Rain daysSnow days
Jan2971915
Feb1891612
Mar2432015
Apr175178
May135152
Jun113140
Jul6380
Aug7180
Sep114100
Oct217162
Nov3181912
Dec2811916

Snow in Vedder Crossing

Average snowy days through the year, the snow-season span, and estimated snowfall — for ski trips and the perennial 'will there be snow at Christmas?' question.

Vedder Crossing averages about 82 snowy days a year. Snow season runs roughly Oct 2 to May 27 — about 7.8 months.

December is snowiest, with roughly 16 days of snow and an estimated 137 cm of snowfall. Over the year that adds up to an estimated 553 cm of snow.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsnow seasonsnow seasonDec 19
Snow daysSnowfall (cm)
Jan15100
Feb1291
Mar1589
Apr830
May25
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep00
Oct29
Nov1291
Dec16137

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Vedder Crossing, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around June 24 and lasts for 3.5 months, ending around October 9. The clearest month is August, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 59% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 10 and lasts for 8.4 months, ending around June 23. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 77% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 30 · 65%Dec 18 · 21%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2476
Feb3070
Mar2674
Apr2773
May3169
Jun3268
Jul5644
Aug5941
Sep5149
Oct3367
Nov2575
Dec2377

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around June 14, brings about 16 hours of light; the shortest, around December 14, only 8 hours — a swing of roughly 8 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan8.58:044:30
Feb9.87:285:17
Mar11.66:316:04
Apr13.45:246:52
May15.04:327:36
Jun15.94:098:07
Jul15.64:258:02
Aug14.25:067:18
Sep12.45:516:13
Oct10.56:375:08
Nov8.97:274:19
Dec8.18:034:05

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Vedder Crossing averages about 7 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 4 and 15 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.5 months, from around Jun 26 to Oct 11. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 12 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is April, down near 4 sunny days — about 65% fewer than the July peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightJul 2815 daysApr 104 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan5Gloomy
Feb5Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr4Gloomy
May6Gloomy
Jun5Gloomy
Jul13Mixed
Aug13Mixed
Sep11Mixed
Oct7Gloomy
Nov5Gloomy
Dec5Gloomy

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Vedder Crossing, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in August, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 1% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan10000
Feb10000
Mar10000
Apr10000
May10000
Jun9820
Jul85140
Aug86131
Sep9730
Oct10000
Nov10000
Dec10000

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Vedder Crossing is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeJan 5 · 7 km/hAug 12 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct5calm
Nov6calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Vedder Crossing

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Vedder Crossing's rainy season runs October–April, when most of the year's rain falls.

Rainy season
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Vedder Crossing

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Vedder Crossing throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around early September, Vedder Crossing is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Vedder Crossing for general outdoor tourist activities is from early July to mid September, with a peak score in the last week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 30 · 7.5

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan0.0poor
Feb0.0poor
Mar0.7poor
Apr2.0poor
May3.8fair
Jun4.8fair
Jul6.8good
Aug6.9good
Sep5.6good
Oct2.6poor
Nov0.4poor
Dec0.0poor

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Vedder Crossing for hot-weather activities is from mid July to late August, with a peak score in the last week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 31 · 4.9

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Vedder Crossing, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around August (highs near 21°C), the essentials are rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around December (highs near 2°C), pack a warm layer, a heavy coat and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Vedder Crossing sees daytime highs around 21°C and nights near 10°C. Worth packing: rain gear and sun protection. About 8 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Vedder Crossing by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Vedder Crossing peaks around July 17 at about 8 (very high) — sunscreen and a hat are worth it in the middle of the day. It bottoms out near December 17 at about 1 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 7 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJul 17UV 8Dec 17UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb1Low
Mar4Moderate
Apr4Moderate
May7High
Jun6High
Jul8Very high
Aug6High
Sep4Moderate
Oct3Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Average hourly UV index in Vedder Crossing

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in July the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan00
Feb00
Mar3.50
Apr50
May72
Jun71
Jul8.55
Aug71.5
Sep4.50
Oct00
Nov00
Dec00

Air quality in Vedder Crossing by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Vedder Crossing is worst in September — around 18 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 3.2× the cleanest month (December, 6 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodSep 1018 µg/m³Dec 176 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan7Good
Feb9Good
Mar12Good
Apr12Good
May12Good
Jun11Good
Jul11Good
Aug18Moderate
Sep18Moderate
Oct12Good
Nov7Good
Dec6Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayTypical season (≥50%)

The growing season in Vedder Crossing typically lasts about 237 days, from around March 23 to November 14 — the span where a frost-free day is more likely than not. It is reliably frost-free from May 6 to October 12.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgrowing seasonMar 2350%May 690%Oct 1290%Nov 1450%
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan3331
Feb3228
Mar4531
Apr7330
May956
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep990
Oct8520
Nov4830
Dec2931

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Vedder Crossing banks about 482 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

0200400600JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May13
Jun70
Jul163
Aug165
Sep72
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Vedder Crossing receives about 3.3 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — moderate — with a clear seasonal swing between 0.8 and 6.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Mar 26 to Sep 24. The brightest month is July, averaging about 6.0 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 0.8 kWh/m² — roughly 87% less than the July peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 236.1 kWhDec 170.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan1.0Dim
Feb1.9Dim
Mar2.9Moderate
Apr4.3Bright
May5.3Bright
Jun5.4Bright
Jul6.1Intense
Aug5.3Bright
Sep3.8Moderate
Oct2.1Moderate
Nov1.1Dim
Dec0.8Dim

Where is Vedder Crossing?

Vedder Crossing sits at 49.1°N, 122.0°W, 39 m above sea level, in Canada. The nearest listed city is Chilliwack-Downtown, 7.0 km away.

Topography around Vedder Crossing

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Vedder Crossing.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Vedder Crossing has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 361 m around an average of 73 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,980 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,279 m.

The land around Vedder Crossing is covered by trees (54%) and artificial surfaces (21%) within 3 km, trees (63%) within 16 km, and trees (71%) within 80 km.

3 km
361 m
16 km
1,980 m
80 km
3,279 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainsnow and icewater
Nearby: Chilliwack-Downtown 7.0 km · Chilliwack 7.0 km · Abbotsford 21 km · Mission 25 km · Townline 29 km · Haney 48 km · Maple Ridge 48 km · Walnut Grove 50 km

Canada travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type A / B
120 V · 60 Hz
Prices
≈ 83% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$55,698
2025
Happiness
6.7 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
97%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
2
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
5.3
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
Religion
Christian 53%none 35%Muslim 5%Hindu 2%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Vedder Crossing (49.1°, -121.9667°, elevation 39 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).