Wettest Weather
Among Canada's 25 largest cities, these seven average over one metre (39 inches) of total precipitation, falling as rain or snow, a year.
| City |
mm Precipitation |
| Abbotsford |
1573 |
| St. John's |
1514 |
| Halifax |
1452 |
| Quebec City |
1230 |
| Vancouver |
1199 |
| Sherbrooke |
1144 |
| Trois-Rivieres |
1100 |
The amount of precipitation a metropolitan area receives can vary considerably from neighbourhood to neighbourhood. Topography particularly affects rainfall in the Vancouver region, which sprawls across a flat river delta to the foot of a coastal mountain range.
The precipitation data given here for Vancouver are measured at the airport, located on an island in the Fraser River. But not far from there, at the base of Grouse Mountain on Redonda Drive in North Vancouver, rain gauges fill much higher. The North Vancouver weather station averages 2477 mm of precipitation a year, twice the amount that falls at the Vancouver airport.
Most Rain in a Day
Rainstorms dumping over 100 millimetres (3.9 inches) of rain in a single day have hit eight of Canada's major cities. These are their largest one-day rainfalls on record:
| City |
mm Rain |
Date |
| Halifax |
218 |
August 15, 1971 |
| Regina |
160 |
June 15, 1887 |
| Oshawa |
145 |
June 27, 1971 |
| Kingston |
129 |
Sep 14, 1979 |
| Toronto |
121 |
Oct 15, 1954 |
| St. John's |
121 |
July 27, 1946 |
| Edmonton |
114 |
July 31, 1953 |
| Hamilton |
107 |
July 26, 1989 |
Most Rainy Days
Six out of Canada's 25 largest urban centres have on average over 125 rainy days in a year:
| City |
Days a Year With Rain |
| Abbotsford |
171 |
| St. John's |
162 |
| Vancouver |
161 |
| Victoria |
150 |
| Halifax |
132 |
| Sherbrooke |
128 |
