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Has the climate in West Vancouver changed?

West Vancouver has warmed about 4.4°F between 1992 and 2020.

About 1.5°F per decade, measured from West Vancouver's official daily weather records, 1992–2020. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? West Vancouver's climate has warmed faster 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
+2.9°F
1970s
49.3°F
Recent
52.2°F
A steady upward drift

West Vancouver's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1992 to 2020.

35°37°39°41°43°45°47°49°51°53°55°1992: 36.9°F1993: 51.1°F1994: 50.7°F1995: 53.6°F1996: 49.2°F1997: 48.9°F1998: 53.0°F1999: 50.2°F2000: 49.8°F2001: 50.1°F2002: 51.7°F2003: 52.4°F2004: 49.2°F2005: 51.2°F2006: 51.4°F2007: 49.7°F2008: 49.2°F2009: 50.6°F2010: 51.9°F2011: 49.5°F2012: 51.1°F2013: 51.1°F2014: 52.7°F2015: 53.9°F2016: 53.1°F2017: 51.6°F2018: 52.6°F2019: 51.7°F2020: 52.0°Flong-term trend1992200020102020
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 West Vancouver Aut, 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 →