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Campbell River has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate.
Mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers — here's what that means in plain terms.
What this climate feels like
The four things a regular visitor actually wants to know:
Highs near 73°F in July.
Lows near 35°F in December.
About 62 in of rain a year, plus 19 in of snow. Snow falls through the winter months.
Cloudy skies much of the year.
What "warm-summer Mediterranean" means
Climate scientists sort every place on Earth into about 30 climate types, based on how hot, cold, wet and dry it is across the year. Campbell River's type — warm-summer mediterranean — sits in the broad family of mild, temperate climates.
Researchers write climate types as a short letter code. Here is what each letter means:
Cities with the same climate as Campbell River
A warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Csb) — these recognizable cities share it. If you know one of them, you know roughly what to expect.
Has Campbell River's climate type changed?
A climate type is a coarse bucket. It can hold steady for years while the weather inside it shifts — or tip into the next bucket.
What this climate means for you
Cool-season vegetables, stone fruit, berries and hops excel. Wine grapes do well at the warmer end.
Late spring through early autumn is the pristine window — warm, dry, sunny. Winter is wet but never brutal.
Comfortable year-round — sunny, dry summers and mild, wet winters. Heating is modest; AC is rarely necessary.
Where these numbers come from
The climate type and the month-by-month figures on this page are computed from Campbell River's measured 30-year climate normals (1991–2020) — the same official records behind Campbell River's main climate page, so the two always agree.
Long-range climate maps measure things slightly differently and can place a city in a neighbouring category. Where they differ, this page uses the measured station record as the climate today.
Methodology & sources
Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 29 years of daily observations at Cape Mudge, a weather station, about 4 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.