More rain and snow fall on Schmidtville than on 95% of Canadian towns: 1,414 mm a year
July afternoons average 22.7°C. None of its 4 nearest neighbours has cooler July afternoons. Rain or snow is most frequent in December and least in August. The furnace earns its keep from November to May, the months that average under 10°C.
Schmidtville has no ECCC normals station of its own: every figure here comes from Shearwater, 6.3 km east.
A year in Schmidtville at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Schmidtville’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Nova Scotia beside it.
What a year in Schmidtville 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
About 124 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
About 215 cm of snow a year
From November to May snow is likely; January is the peak, at about 54 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
ECCC’s Shearwater normals leave snowfall out; the figures here come from Halifax Stanfield (Airport), 27 km away.
Heating a home in Schmidtville
88% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: November to May.
One degree below 18°C for one day makes one heating degree day; the year’s days are added together. In heating terms, homes need less heating than 71% of Canadian towns.
Living with Schmidtville’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Tender plants are usually safe from around 30 April until frost returns near 29 October: about 181 days.
Afternoons of 17–27°C and nights of at least 8°C arrive in Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Frostbite weather, a wind chill under −20, turns up on about 15 days a year.
The humidex tops 30 on about 19 days a year: muggy days to plan around.
For blizzards, floods and wildfire, turn to Schmidtville’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 | 6.3 km east |
| Station altitude | 44 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Halifax Stanfield (Airport), 27 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), 27 km |
How Schmidtville 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 Schmidtville’s own would show the same figures). Schmidtville has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 43–58 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schmidtville Shearwater | 22.7°C | −8.3°C | 1,414 mm |
| Enfield 43 km · Halifax Stanfield (Airport) | 24.2°C 1.5°C warmer | −10.1°C 1.8°C colder | 1,393 mm |
| Chester 55 km · Bridgewater | 25.5°C 2.8°C warmer | −10.2°C 1.9°C colder | 1,561 mm |
| Stewiacke 58 km · Upper Stewiacke | 25.1°C 2.4°C warmer | −11.6°C 3.3°C colder | 1,277 mm |
| Windsor 58 km · Waterville Cambridge | 25.9°C 3.2°C warmer | −9.1°C 0.8°C colder | 1,216 mm |
Schmidtville 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 March here can run from −19.1°C to 28.3°C
Bars run from each month’s record low to its record high over 1991–2020; January is the month whose average wanders most from year to year (±2.0°C around −4.1°C), August the one that wanders least (±0.7°C).
Where Schmidtville’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the Canadian Climate Normals, 1991–2020, at Shearwater (the closest location with all twelve months of temperatures).
- 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: sunshine (no 1991–2020 normals exist for it) and any altitude adjustment, since there is no elevation for the town itself.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Schmidtville’s climate
How warm does Schmidtville get in summer?
At its warmest, in August, the normal high is 23.3°C.
How cold does Schmidtville get in winter?
The year’s coldest nights belong to January, at about −8.3°C.
How much rain and snow does Schmidtville get?
Rain and snow, with snow counted as water, total 1,414 mm a year; December leads with 156 mm and August trails with 94 mm.
Are these figures for Schmidtville itself?
No, they come from Shearwater; ECCC keeps no 1991–2020 normals in Schmidtville itself.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Schmidtville →
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).