Winter Harbour

Demographic figures from Statistics Canada. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Winter Harbour is the westernmost settlement on the west coast about 41 kilometres (25 mi) from the northwest tip of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. This unincorporated community on Winter Harbour is on the northern side of Quatsino Sound at the mouth.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Nearby places in British Columbia

• Holberg
  9.6 mi away · pop. 51
• Quatsino
  17.5 mi away
• Coal Harbour
  20.6 mi away · pop. 180
• Port Hardy
  27.5 mi away · pop. 4,008
• Fort Rupert
  30 mi away
• Port McNeill
  42 mi away · pop. 2,505
• Houpsitas
  44.3 mi away
• Alert Bay
  48.8 mi away · pop. 445
• Fair Harbour
  51.3 mi away
• Woss
  66.7 mi away · pop. 235
• Yuquot
  89.6 mi away
• Kelsey Bay
  91.3 mi away

Browse all places in British Columbia →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Recently spotted species

California Beach Flea

Megalorchestia californiana

Seen 2026-09-18

Ragfish

Icosteus aenigmaticus

Seen 2026-09-04

Common Mola

Mola mola

Seen 2026-08-30

Sitka spruce

Picea sitchensis

Seen 2026-08-26

salal

Gaultheria shallon

Seen 2026-08-26

Big Skate

Beringraja binoculata

Seen 2026-08-26

Lingcod

Ophiodon elongatus

Seen 2026-08-17

Osprey

Pandion haliaetus

Seen 2026-08-15

Band-tailed Pigeon

Patagioenas fasciata

Seen 2026-08-15

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).