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Weather extremes
How extreme does Nanaimo's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Nanaimo has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.
The four kinds of extreme
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Nanaimo has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 25°F hotter than a normal September afternoon in Nanaimo (typical high near 64°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 24°F colder than a normal January night in Nanaimo (typical low near 40°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 92% of a typical December's rain in a single day (Nanaimo averages roughly 2.5 in across the month).
The three most extreme on record
How hot and cold it gets, month by month
The shaded band is the normal range of daily temperatures for each month. The dots show the most extreme it has ever been — so you can see how far beyond a normal day the records really sit.
Nanaimo's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — September's 89°F is about 25°F beyond a normal hot afternoon. Its record cold is just as far below a normal winter night — the dots mark how rare each extreme really is.
In plain terms
Methodology & sources
Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 25 years of daily observations at Entrance Island, a weather station, about 11 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.