What are the temperature extremes in Victoria?

As with the average temperatures, the extreme temperatures in Victoria tend to be not so extreme in Victoria.  

Victoria Gonzales averages 10.8 days annually when the temperature drops to 0 or below - by far the least for any city in Canada.  By comparison, Victoria Airport - located away from the Strait of Juan de Fuca in an area prone to frost - averages 46 days annually with freezing temperatures.  Vancouver Airport averages 40.9 days annually with freezing temperatures.  In the past 100 years, there have been 5 winters at Victoria Gonzales when the temperature did not fall below 0: 1925/26, 1939/40, 1991/92, 1999/2000, and 2002/03.  The median lowest temperature each winter is -4.8.  

The coldest temperature ever recorded at Victoria Gonzales was -15.6 on December 29, 1968.  However, temperatures like that are rare and getting rarer.  In fact, there have been no temperatures below -10 recorded in Victoria since December 1990.  In the past 25 years, the coldest temperature recorded at Victoria Gonzales was -8.8 on December 20, 2008.  

On average, Victoria Gonzales only gets only 1 day per year with a temperature above 30 degrees.  The Victoria Airport - again away from the moderating influence of the Strait of Juan de Fuca - averages 2.1 such days.  Vancouver Airport averages only 0.3 days above 30 degrees each year.  The median highest temperature at Victoria Gonzales each year is 29.8.  The hottest temperature ever recorded at Victoria Gonzales was 36.0 degrees on July 11, 2007.  

The table below shows the extreme maxima and minima for each month, and for the year, at Victoria Gonzales.