Hope

Sister cities

• Izu

Geography

Hope is at the easternmost point of British Columbia's lower mainland area and is usually considered to be part of the Fraser Canyon area or "eastern Fraser Valley" as "Lower Mainland" is commonly understood as synonymous with "greater Vancouver". There are relatively significant peaks to the north, east, and south of the townsite. Only to the west can flat land be seen, and that view is dominated by the broad lower reaches of the Fraser River. The segment from Lytton to Hope separates the Cascade Mountains and Coast Mountains, thereby forming the lower part of the Fraser Canyon, which begins far upriver near Williams Lake. At Hope, the river enters a broad flood plain extending to the coast and Vancouver. The Coquihalla and Sumallo Rivers and Silverhope Creek rise in the Cascade Mountains northeast and southeast and south of Hope, respectively, and empty into the Fraser River. The Skagit River begins south of Hope, across a low pass from the head of the Silverhope valley, which is the access to the Canadian shoreline of Ross Lake. Hope has an oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb) with warm summers and moderately cold winters. Hope has a cloudy climate for most of the year. Late summer is the sunniest time of the year. The high, nearby mountains block direct sunshine when the sun is not high enough in the sky. This is reflected in the sunshine measurements for Hope so the Campbell–Stokes recorder, the standard method for measuring sunshine hours doesn't record all the hours that the sky is clear in Hope.