Weekly note

Kelowna in December

avoid · not the best time to go · the coolest month of the year, the wettest month of the year

The year in Kelowna

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  5. Kelowna in May: sweet spot
  6. Kelowna in June: good, busy
  7. Kelowna in July: good, busy
  8. Kelowna in August: good, busy
  9. Kelowna in September: good
  10. Kelowna in October: good
  11. Kelowna in November: avoid
  12. Kelowna in December: avoid
  • Sweet spot
  • Good
  • OK
  • Avoid
  • Busy
December is ruled out at Kelowna: bitter cold: 3C daily max.

The numbers

Daily high3°C
Nightly low-3°C
Feels like, afternoon0°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more9 · 58 mm
Humidity79%
Sunshine4.1 h/day
Daylight8.2 h/day
Crowds80 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at downtown, on Okanagan Lake, 10 km from the airport (YLW): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

December: quiet. Busiest from June to August; quietest from October to April.

Public holidays in December

Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.

Kelowna in pictures

What to pack

  • A proper coat, hat and gloves: nights average -3°C.
  • A packable rain jacket for the 9 or so rainy days.
  • Humidity averages 79%; breathable fabrics dry faster.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Type A and B plugs at 120 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Canadian dollar. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for Canada: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Kelowna: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

December elsewhere

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