More rain and snow fall on Austinville than on 95% of Canadian towns: 1,414 mm a year
The coldest hours of a January night bottom out at −8.3°C on average. Its July afternoons stay fresher than in 94% of Canadian towns. Of all months, December brings the most precipitation and August the least. Homes need heating from November to May, the months averaging under 10°C.
These are not Austinville’s own readings: ECCC keeps no normals there, so the page uses Shearwater, 8.3 km south-east.
A year in Austinville at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Austinville’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Nova Scotia beside it.
What a year in Austinville feels like
Seasons and months as ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals give them: a typical day’s high and low.
Frost on 133 days, 20°C on 82
From October to April frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
1,414 mm of precipitation in a typical year
Some 124 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 215 cm in a normal year
Snow falls from November to May, most of all in January (about 54 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Snowfall: Halifax Stanfield (Airport), 23 km away (Shearwater records no complete year of it).
Heating a home in Austinville
88% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: November to May.
Each day the mean sits under 18°C adds its shortfall; a year’s total is its heating degree days. By this count, homes here need less heating than 71% of Canadian towns.
Living with Austinville’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
The frost-free stretch runs from about 30 April to about 29 October, some 181 days in a normal year.
Mild days and mild nights together (17–27°C by day, 8°C or more at night) belong to Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →The wind chill passes −20 on about 15 days in a normal year.
A humidex above 30 marks about 19 days in a normal year.
Storms, floods and heat waves sit outside these normals; Austinville’s hazards page covers them.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Shearwater
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for Shearwater are 3 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 8.3 km south-east |
| Station altitude | 44 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Halifax Stanfield (Airport), 23 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −26.5°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 34.3°C |
| Average wind | 14.3 km/h on average, most often from the north-west |
| Next-nearest location | Halifax Stanfield (Airport), 23 km |
How Austinville 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
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Austinville’s own would show the same figures). No closer places have figures: these lie 39–56 km from Austinville.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austinville Shearwater | 22.7°C | −8.3°C | 1,414 mm |
| Enfield 39 km · Halifax Stanfield (Airport) | 24.2°C 1.5°C warmer | −10.1°C 1.8°C colder | 1,393 mm |
| Stewiacke 54 km · Upper Stewiacke | 25.1°C 2.4°C warmer | −11.6°C 3.3°C colder | 1,277 mm |
| Windsor 55 km · Waterville Cambridge | 25.9°C 3.2°C warmer | −9.1°C 0.8°C colder | 1,216 mm |
| Chester 56 km · Bridgewater | 25.5°C 2.8°C warmer | −10.2°C 1.9°C colder | 1,561 mm |
Austinville 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 | 0.2°C | −8.3°C | −4.1°C | 124 mm | 54 cm |
| February | 0.6°C | −7.9°C | −3.7°C | 114 mm | 44 cm |
| March | 3.7°C | −4.3°C | −0.3°C | 120 mm | 34 cm |
| April | 8.6°C | 0.4°C | 4.5°C | 108 mm | 17 cm |
| May | 14.0°C | 5.0°C | 9.5°C | 115 mm | 2 cm |
| June | 18.9°C | 9.9°C | 14.4°C | 107 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 22.7°C | 14.3°C | 18.5°C | 95 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 23.3°C | 14.7°C | 19.1°C | 94 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.1°C | 11.3°C | 15.8°C | 107 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 14.2°C | 6.2°C | 10.2°C | 141 mm | 1 cm |
| November | 8.6°C | 1.3°C | 5.0°C | 135 mm | 19 cm |
| December | 3.6°C | −3.9°C | −0.2°C | 156 mm | 44 cm |
| Year | 11.6°C | 3.2°C | 7.4°C | 1,414 mm | 215 cm |
From −19.1°C to 28.3°C: March’s coldest and warmest days since 1991
The month to count on least is January: one year in three its average strays more than 2.0°C from −4.1°C. August moves least, typically by 0.7°C.
Where Austinville’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals at Shearwater, the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals.
- Other locations: where a location publishes no full year of precipitation or snowfall, the nearest one that does supplies it, named beside those figures.
- Comparisons: every Canadian town and neighbourhood of 2,500 or more, each read from its own nearest location; city totals and reserves are left out.
- Not on this page: a sunshine figure (ECCC published none for 1991–2020) and any lapse-rate correction for height, as the town has no elevation here.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Austinville’s climate
How warm does Austinville get in summer?
Afternoons average 23.3°C in August, the warmest time of year.
How cold does Austinville get in winter?
Of all twelve months, January has the coldest nights, about −8.3°C.
How much rain and snow does Austinville get?
Rain and snow add up to about 1,414 mm of water a year; December brings the most (156 mm), August the least (94 mm).
Are these figures for Austinville itself?
Not quite: they come from Shearwater, the closest ECCC normals location to Austinville.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Austinville →
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).