Today
Has it rained enough in Victoria?
Rain soaked in today, and the ground has taken it.
Victoria has had 25.8mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 117.7mm, so that is about 22% of what the ground usually gets — and the driest October in 30 years was 22.6mm.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
17 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
2 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Victoria through a normal year
Across a normal year Victoria gets about 1032.9mm of rain, most of it in November (171.3mm) and least in July (14.1mm).
A normal October in Victoria has rain on 16 days. Only 12 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Victoria one of the wetter places this site covers in Canada in October — 4th of 11, against Vancouver at the wet end (249.2mm) and Edmonton at the dry end (23.1mm).
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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.