Swimmers and spectators are welcome to the 105th anniversary of the Vancouver Polar Bear Swim on January 1, 2025 at English Bay for the annual cold plunge.

Join in as a swimmer or spectator for the 104th anniversary of the Vancouver Polar Bear Swim on New Year’s Day 2024 at English Bay Beach

The Vancouver Polar Bear Swim is officially returning to English Bay for 2023! This will be the first in-person swim event in three years, and will mark the 103rd anniversary of the annual New Year’s Day tradition.

The Vancouver Polar Bear Swim will look different for 2021 with an at-home Digital Dip organized by the Vancouver Park Board.

Join a Polar Bear Swim New Year’s Day (January 1, 2020) in Vancouver, Port Moody, North Vancouver, or Delta. Many events have charitable components, live entertainment, prizes, and more!

Take the plunge, if you dare! Join a Polar Bear Swim New Year’s Day (January 1, 2019) in Vancouver, Port Moody, North Vancouver, or Delta. Many events have charitable components, live entertainment, prizes, and more!

Take the plunge, if you dare! Join a Polar Bear Swim New Year’s Day (January 1, 2017) in Vancouver, White Rock, North Vancouver, Delta, or Fort Langley

It was in 1920 that Peter Pantages created the Polar Bear Swim Club in Vancouver and the brisk ocean dip has been a New Year’s Day tradition for the last 96 years. Peter Pantages on a snowy Vancouver beach in 1927. Archives# CVA 99-1786. Polar Bear Swim Vancouver The Vancouver Polar Bear Swim takes place […]

Aside from the White Rock Polar Bear Swim and the 95th annual event in English Bay, you ring in the new year with a chilly dip in Deep Cove during the annual Penguin Plunge at Panorama Park. Polar Bear Swim: North Vancouver The Penguin Plunge is January 1, 2015 at Panorama Park at Deep Cove. […]

If you’re looking to participate in a Polar Bear Swim that isn’t over at the 95th annual event in English Bay this year you can participate in the 45th annual White Rock Polar Bear Swim. Photo credit: Tyler Ingram on Flickr White Rock Pier Polar Bear Swim Register for the White Rock Pier Polar Bear […]