Photo: Reynoborn64 · Public domainDigby sits near the top of Canadian towns for rain and snow, with 1,453 mm a year
Sunny July days climb to about 25.5°C. Its January nights stay gentler than in 71% of Canadian towns. The wettest month is November; the driest is July. Wet days, with 1 mm of rain or snow or more, come about 136 times a year.
The nearest ECCC normals location is Kejimkujik, 54 km east: at that distance its figures describe the region more than Digby itself.
A year in Digby at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Digby’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Nova Scotia beside it.
What a year in Digby feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on 155 days, 20°C on 107
From October to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. Some 6 days a year climb past 30°C.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
Rain and melted snow: about 1,453 mm a year
9th wettest of 90 towns of 2,500+ in Nova Scotia.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
205 cm of snow in a typical year
Snow falls from November to April, most of all in January (about 64 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
ECCC’s Kejimkujik normals leave snowfall out; the figures here come from Yarmouth, 78 km away.
Heating a home in Digby
89% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
Warm days count for nothing; each colder day adds how far its mean sits below 18°C. That means homes here need less heating than 69% of Canadian towns.
Living with Digby’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
For long days outdoors, Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep bring highs of 17–27°C and lows of 8°C or more.
Parks & trails →A wind chill below −20 is part of about 8 days a year here.
Expect around 42 sticky days a year with the humidex above 30.
A normal year has no blizzard, flood or heat wave in it; Digby’s hazards page looks at those.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Kejimkujik
ECCC builds the Kejimkujik normals from 2 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 54 km east |
| Station altitude | 127 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Yarmouth, 78 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −34.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 34.7°C |
| Average wind | 6.1 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Point Lepreau, 76 km |
How Digby compares
Placed among 2,611 Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+, each on its nearest normals location; each dot is another location used in Nova Scotia.
Nearby towns’ climate
Places around Digby whose figures come from another normals location. No closer places have figures: these lie 37–75 km from Digby.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Digby Kejimkujik | 25.5°C | −9.6°C | 1,453 mm |
| Clare 37 km · Yarmouth | 21.4°C 4.1°C cooler | −6.4°C 3.2°C milder | 1,290 mm |
| Annapolis County, Subdivision B 62 km · Greenwood | 26.2°C 0.7°C warmer | −9.8°C about the same | 1,137 mm |
| Grand Manan 75 km · Grand Manan | 22.8°C 2.7°C cooler | −9.2°C about the same | 1,125 mm |
Digby weather by month
Month by month, 1991–2020: the usual high, low and mean, the rain and snow, and the snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −0.5°C | −9.6°C | −5.0°C | 159 mm | 64 cm |
| February | 0.5°C | −9.1°C | −4.3°C | 118 mm | 47 cm |
| March | 4.4°C | −5.5°C | −0.6°C | 124 mm | 31 cm |
| April | 10.6°C | −0.2°C | 5.2°C | 114 mm | 10 cm |
| May | 17.2°C | 5.0°C | 11.1°C | 106 mm | under 1 cm |
| June | 22.0°C | 9.9°C | 16.0°C | 97 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.5°C | 13.8°C | 19.6°C | 76 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.0°C | 13.2°C | 19.1°C | 93 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.8°C | 9.4°C | 15.1°C | 117 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 14.2°C | 3.9°C | 9.1°C | 144 mm | under 1 cm |
| November | 8.2°C | −0.2°C | 4.0°C | 161 mm | 10 cm |
| December | 2.6°C | −5.3°C | −1.4°C | 146 mm | 44 cm |
| Year | 12.5°C | 2.1°C | 7.3°C | 1,453 mm | 205 cm |
February varies most from one year to the next (2.2°C), August least
Bars run from each month’s record low to its record high since 1991. March spans the most, from −27.0°C (1993) to 27.9°C (2012).
Where Digby’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals for Kejimkujik, the nearest location with a full year of temperatures.
- Other locations: ECCC blanks a month that fails its completeness rule, so the precipitation or snowfall here comes from the next location with all twelve months.
- Comparisons: Canada’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+ (no city totals, no reserves), each through its own nearest location.
- Not on this page: hours of sunshine, missing from the 1991–2020 normals, and a height correction: the town has no elevation on file.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Digby’s climate
How warm does Digby get in summer?
Expect highs near 25.5°C in July, the hottest month on average.
How cold does Digby get in winter?
A typical January night falls to −9.6°C, the year’s low point.
How much rain and snow does Digby get?
November is the wettest month at 161 mm and July the driest at 76 mm, for 1,453 mm over the year.
Are these figures for Digby itself?
No. The nearest normals are those of Kejimkujik, a long way from Digby.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Digby →
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).