Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis · CC BY-SA 2.0Digby sits near the top of Canadian towns for rain and snow, with 1,453 mm a year
July afternoons average 25.5°C. Of all months, November brings the most precipitation and July the least. In January, nights here are milder than in 71% of Canadian towns. Ice scrapers and block heaters earn their keep on roughly 155 days a year at 0°C or below.
These are not Digby’s own readings: ECCC keeps no normals there, so the page uses Kejimkujik, 49 km south-east.
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
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
Frost on 155 days, 20°C on 107
From October to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. Heat of 30°C or more comes on about 6 days a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
1,453 mm of precipitation in a typical year
9th wettest of 91 towns of 2,500+ in Nova Scotia. Some 136 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
About 268 cm of snow a year
The snow season runs November to May; January brings the most, about 78 cm. 7th snowiest of 91 towns of 2,500+ in Nova Scotia.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Snowfall: Greenwood, 78 km away (Kejimkujik records no complete year of it).
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.
Degree days add up how far each day’s mean temperature falls below 18°C over a year. By this count, homes here need less heating than 69% of Canadian towns.
Living with Digby’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
The outdoor season by the averages is Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep, with highs of 17–27°C and lows of 8°C or more.
Parks & trails →Wind chill falls below −20 on about 8 days a year: cover skin and dress in layers.
About 42 days a year turn sultry, with the humidex past 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
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for Kejimkujik are 2 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 49 km south-east |
| Station altitude | 127 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Greenwood, 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, 74 km |
How Digby compares
Against the 2,611 Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, each read from its own normals location; the dots are the other locations those towns use in Nova Scotia.
Nearby towns’ climate
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Digby’s would only repeat its figures. Digby has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 49–70 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Digby Kejimkujik | 25.5°C | −9.6°C | 1,453 mm |
| Annapolis County, Subdivision B 49 km · Greenwood | 26.2°C 0.7°C warmer | −9.8°C about the same | 1,137 mm |
| Clare 51 km · Yarmouth | 21.4°C 4.1°C cooler | −6.4°C 3.2°C milder | 1,290 mm |
Digby weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −0.5°C | −9.6°C | −5.0°C | 159 mm | 78 cm |
| February | 0.5°C | −9.1°C | −4.3°C | 118 mm | 60 cm |
| March | 4.4°C | −5.5°C | −0.6°C | 124 mm | 45 cm |
| April | 10.6°C | −0.2°C | 5.2°C | 114 mm | 13 cm |
| May | 17.2°C | 5.0°C | 11.1°C | 106 mm | 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 | 15 cm |
| December | 2.6°C | −5.3°C | −1.4°C | 146 mm | 56 cm |
| Year | 12.5°C | 2.1°C | 7.3°C | 1,453 mm | 268 cm |
March has run from −27.0°C to 27.9°C in thirty years
Year to year, February varies most (a standard deviation of 2.2°C around −4.3°C) and August least (1.0°C).
Where Digby’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 normals from ECCC for Kejimkujik, its nearest location with complete temperatures.
- Other locations: precipitation and snowfall come from the nearest location that publishes all twelve months of them, as named above.
- Comparisons: a pool of Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, read alike; whole cities and reserves stay out of it.
- Not on this page: sunshine, absent from every 1991–2020 location, and an altitude correction, for want of the town’s own elevation.
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?
Midsummer means July, with afternoons near 25.5°C on a typical day.
How cold does Digby get in winter?
The year’s coldest nights belong to January, at about −9.6°C.
How much rain and snow does Digby get?
Measured as water, a year brings 1,453 mm: 161 mm in November, the wettest month, and 76 mm in July, the driest.
Are these figures for Digby itself?
Not as such: Kejimkujik is the nearest normals location, and Digby has none.
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).