Weather in Maple Ridge in August

Prime time. August is about as good as Maple Ridge gets. Highs average 23.2 °C, lows 14 °C, and rain falls on 6 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

August is the highest-scoring month of the twelve. The nearest rival is July, and the month at the other end of the year is December.

Rain falls on only 6 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.

What the averages hide

The averages here are honest — no hidden extremes worth planning around. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest August day reached 36.7 °C and the coldest night fell to 7.9 °C.

This is the volatile part. August rainfall has ranged from 5 mm to 120 mm across the twenty years measured — a 115 mm spread around an average of 36 mm. The average is real but almost no individual August looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 1.6 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity runs at 77%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How August sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 23.1 °C in July, 23.2 here, 20.3 in September. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain is the thing that moves: September brings 6 days more of it, so the earlier half of a flexible trip is the safer half.

Daylight in August

14.5 hours of daylight, losing 1.6 hours across the month. That is between Maple Ridge's extremes of 16.2 and 8.2 hours, so days are long enough not to constrain the plan.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 22.9 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights.

How busy it gets

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

August in Maple Ridge versus nearby

If Maple Ridge is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Vancouver is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 3 days more rain. Nanaimo is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days.

So: August is the answer for Maple Ridge. If it is booked out or priced out, July is the next best thing at 2 points behind, and December is the month to keep off the shortlist.

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