With cold winters, hot summers and everything in-between it is not surprising that the weather is a national preoccupation of Canadians. The following list gives a better idea about the weather in the entire year.

Victoria: Victoria is the city with the lowest annual average snowfall: 47 centimetres.

Lakelse Lake: The heaviest snowfall in one day was 118.1 centimetres at Lakelse Lake, January 17, 1974.

Winnipeg: Winnipeg has the sunniest winters with the most hours of sunshine during December, January and February: 358 hours.

Windsor: The most humid city is Windsor with the highest average vapour pressure, 1.78 kilopascal, during June, July and August.

Chicoutimi: Chicoutimi has the greatest number of days per year with blowing snow 37 days.

Corner Brook: Corner Brook is the snowiest city with an annual average snowfall: 422 centimetres. Note that several smaller places also in Newfoundland and Labrador, Churchill Falls and Wabush, have higher annual snow fall.

Vancouver: The city with fewest days below freezing is Vancouver, which has an average of 51 days per year with freezing temperatures.

Yellowknife: The city with the coldest winters, according to the average nighttime temperature during December, January and February, is Yellowknife: -29.9 degrees Celsius. It is also the coldest city with a mean annual temperature of -5.4 degrees Celsius and it has the sunniest summers with the most hours of sunshine during June, July and August: 1037 hours.

Thompson: The city with the shortest frost-free period is Thompson, with 64 days.

Kamloops: Kamloops has the warmest summers with an average daytime temperature of 27.2 degrees Celsius during June, July and August.

Estevan: The sunshine capital is Estevan with the greatest number of hours of sunshine per year: 2500 hours. Estevan also has the highest annual number of hours per year with clear skies (between zero and two-tenths sky cover): 2979 hours.

St. John's: St. John's is the city with the greatest number of days per year with fog: 121 days. It is the windiest city, with the greatest average annual wind speed being 24 kilometers per hour; and has the greatest number of days per year of freezing precipitation: 38 days.

Prince Rupert: Prince Rupert is the cloudiest place with 6123 hours per year with overcast skies (between eight-tenths and total sky cover). It also has the fewest thunderstorms days, 3 per year. Prince Rupert is also the wettest city, with a total annual precipitation of 2552 millimetres.

London: London is the city which has the most days per year with thunderstorms: 36 days.

Kelowna: Kelowna has the calmest winds with the greatest percentage of wind observations per year of calm conditions (39%).

Snag: The lowest temperature recorded in Canada is -63 degrees Celsius at Snag on February 3, 1947.

Pincher Creek: The most extreme change in temperature took place in January 1962 in Pincher Creek when a warm, dry wind known as a chinook, brought the temperature up from -19 degrees Celsius to 22 degrees Celsius in an hour.

Medicine Hat: Medicine Hat is the driest city with 271 days without measurable precipitation.

Source: Phillips, D. 1990. The Climate of Canada. Catalogue No. En56-1/1990E. Ottawa: Minister of Supply and Services of Canada