Precipitation in Musquodoboit Harbour tops that of 95% of Canadian towns: 1,414 mm a year
January nights here settle around −8.3°C. The year swings widely: the coldest month’s nights and the warmest month’s afternoons are 32°C apart. By July afternoons alone, it runs cooler than 94% of Canadian towns. The furnace earns its keep from November to May, the months that average under 10°C.
Musquodoboit Harbour has no ECCC normals station of its own: every figure here comes from Shearwater, 31 km south-west.
A year in Musquodoboit Harbour at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Musquodoboit Harbour’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Nova Scotia beside it.
What a year in Musquodoboit Harbour feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
133 frost days and 82 days above 20°C a year
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
The most falls in December, the least in August. On about 124 days a year, 1 mm or more falls.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
215 cm of snow in a typical 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
Shearwater publishes no full year of snowfall, so these figures come from Halifax Stanfield (Airport), 32 km away.
Heating a home in Musquodoboit Harbour
88% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: November to May.
Heating degree days total each day’s gap between its mean temperature and 18°C. That means homes here need less heating than 71% of Canadian towns.
Living with Musquodoboit Harbour’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
The growing season between frosts lasts about 181 days, roughly 30 April to 29 October.
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 →Winter brings about 15 days with a wind chill below −20.
Humid summer days, the humidex above 30, number about 19 a year.
For blizzards, floods and wildfire, turn to Musquodoboit Harbour’s hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Shearwater
ECCC builds the Shearwater normals from 3 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 31 km south-west |
| Station altitude | 44 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Halifax Stanfield (Airport), 32 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), 32 km |
How Musquodoboit Harbour 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
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Musquodoboit Harbour’s own would show the same figures). The one place listed is 47 km from Musquodoboit Harbour, the nearest with figures.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Musquodoboit Harbour Shearwater | 22.7°C | −8.3°C | 1,414 mm |
| Stewiacke 47 km · Upper Stewiacke | 25.1°C 2.4°C warmer | −11.6°C 3.3°C colder | 1,277 mm |
| Indian Brook 14 47 km · Halifax Stanfield (Airport) | 24.2°C 1.5°C warmer | −10.1°C 1.8°C colder | 1,393 mm |
Musquodoboit Harbour weather by month
Average daily high and low, mean temperature, rain and snow (as water) and snowfall by month, 1991–2020.
| 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 |
A January here can run warm or cold, its average moving by about 2.0°C; the steadiest month is August
March has the widest record range, −19.1°C in 1992 to 28.3°C in 2012; the tick on each bar is the month’s normal.
Where Musquodoboit Harbour’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: 1991–2020 normals for Shearwater from ECCC’s climate data site, the nearest location with every month of temperature.
- 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: 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, which none of ECCC’s 450 locations publishes for 1991–2020, and the town’s own height above sea level, so no figure is adjusted for altitude.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Musquodoboit Harbour’s climate
How warm does Musquodoboit Harbour get in summer?
August is the warmest month, with average highs of 23.3°C.
How cold does Musquodoboit Harbour get in winter?
The year’s coldest nights belong to January, at about −8.3°C.
How much rain and snow does Musquodoboit Harbour get?
Over twelve months, rain and melted snow come to 1,414 mm; the range runs from 94 mm in August to 156 mm in December.
Are these figures for Musquodoboit Harbour itself?
No, they come from Shearwater; ECCC keeps no 1991–2020 normals in Musquodoboit Harbour itself.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Musquodoboit Harbour →
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