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Has the climate in Courtenay changed?

How Courtenay's climate has changed

About 0.0°F per decade, measured from Courtenay's official daily weather records, 1986–2020. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Courtenay's climate has warmed more slowly than most other cities in Canada.

What has actually changed

Each card compares the 1970s (the first ten years of the record) with recent years (the last ten) — the same span the headline and the chart use.

Average temperature
+0.5°F
1970s
49.1°F
Recent
49.6°F
A steady upward drift

Courtenay's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1986 to 2020.

45°47°49°51°53°55°1986: 47.9°F1987: 53.3°F1988: 51.8°F1989: 48.8°F1990: 49.0°F1991: 48.4°F1992: 49.2°F1993: 49.7°F1994: 48.4°F1995: 46.8°F1996: 46.9°F1997: 48.8°F1998: 52.6°F1999: 48.9°F2000: 48.7°F2001: 48.9°F2002: 50.5°F2003: 50.8°F2004: 50.8°F2005: 50.5°F2006: 50.2°F2007: 48.3°F2008: 47.5°F2009: 49.1°F2010: 50.1°F2011: 48.2°F2012: 49.4°F2013: 49.8°F2014: 50.1°F2015: 51.6°F2016: 51.0°F2017: 47.7°F2018: 49.5°F2019: 49.6°F2020: 48.3°Flong-term trend19861990200020102020
a warmer-than-average year a cooler-than-average year

Each bar is one year. Most recent years sit above the older ones. Some recent years still came in cool — warming is a slope, not a straight climb.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 27 years of daily observations at Courtenay Puntledge, a weather station, about 3 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →