Windsor Park is wetter than 95% of Canadian towns: 1,414 mm of rain and snow a year
Deep winter brings January lows near −8.3°C. A year here swings 32°C from midwinter lows to midsummer highs. Its July afternoons stay fresher than in 94% of Canadian towns. Wet days, with 1 mm of rain or snow or more, come about 124 times a year.
Windsor Park has no ECCC normals station of its own: every figure here comes from Shearwater, 9.5 km east.
A year in Windsor Park at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Windsor Park’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Nova Scotia beside it.
What a year in Windsor Park feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
133 frost days and 82 days above 20°C a year
Frost comes from October to April; in January almost every night freezes.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
About 1,414 mm of rain and snow a year
December is the wettest month and August the driest.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 215 cm in a normal year
The snow season runs November to May; January brings the most, about 54 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Snowfall: Halifax Stanfield (Airport), 26 km away (Shearwater records no complete year of it).
Heating a home in Windsor Park
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 Windsor Park’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
From about 30 April to 29 October the garden is usually clear of frost, some 181 days.
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 →Frostbite weather, a wind chill under −20, turns up on about 15 days a year.
Muggy heat with a humidex over 30 arrives on about 19 days a year.
A normal year has no blizzard, flood or heat wave in it; Windsor Park’s hazards page looks at those.
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 | 9.5 km east |
| Station altitude | 44 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Halifax Stanfield (Airport), 26 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), 26 km |
How Windsor Park 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 Windsor Park’s own would show the same figures). Windsor Park has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 41–56 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windsor Park Shearwater | 22.7°C | −8.3°C | 1,414 mm |
| Enfield 41 km · Halifax Stanfield (Airport) | 24.2°C 1.5°C warmer | −10.1°C 1.8°C colder | 1,393 mm |
| Chester 53 km · Bridgewater | 25.5°C 2.8°C warmer | −10.2°C 1.9°C colder | 1,561 mm |
| Windsor 55 km · Waterville Cambridge | 25.9°C 3.2°C warmer | −9.1°C 0.8°C colder | 1,216 mm |
| Stewiacke 56 km · Upper Stewiacke | 25.1°C 2.4°C warmer | −11.6°C 3.3°C colder | 1,277 mm |
Windsor Park weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and 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 |
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 Windsor Park’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: Environment and Climate Change Canada’s 1991–2020 normals, Shearwater: the nearest of its locations with every month’s temperatures.
- Other locations: precipitation and snowfall come from the nearest location that publishes all twelve months of them, as named above.
- 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 Windsor Park’s climate
How warm does Windsor Park get in summer?
Summer peaks in August: a typical afternoon reaches 23.3°C.
How cold does Windsor Park get in winter?
Lows sink to −8.3°C on an average January night.
How much rain and snow does Windsor Park get?
A normal year brings 1,414 mm, snow included as water: December is wettest at 156 mm, August driest at 94 mm.
Are these figures for Windsor Park itself?
No: Windsor Park has no normals location, so the figures come from Shearwater, the nearest with 1991–2020 normals.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Windsor Park →
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).