Today
Has it rained enough in Vancouver?
Rain soaked in today, and the ground has taken it.
Vancouver has had 43.2mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 249.2mm, so that is about 17% of what the ground usually gets — and the driest October in 30 years was 28.9mm.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
17 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
one day of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Vancouver through a normal year
Across a normal year Vancouver gets about 2166.3mm of rain, most of it in November (337.1mm) and least in July (45.6mm).
A normal October in Vancouver has rain on 18 days. Only 15 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Vancouver the wettest place this site covers in Canada in October — 249.2mm against Edmonton's 23.1mm at the other end.
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Average rainfall by month, 1995–2024
What it means
What that means for what you grow
- Pots and hanging basketsWorth checking by hand even so — a pot in the sun can dry out in a wet week, because there is so little soil to hold anything.
- Beds and bordersNothing needed. Watering soil that is already wet does more harm than good.
- New plantingsAnything planted within the last month is the exception; its roots have not spread far enough to find water on their own.