Photo: Elviroyage · CC BY 4.0Few Canadian towns get more rain and snow than Lunenburg: 1,561 mm a year
Midwinter brings lows of about −10.2°C. Temperatures cover 36°C across the year, low to high. By January nights alone, it runs milder than 67% of Canadian towns. Heating does most of its work from October to April, in months below 10°C on average.
ECCC publishes no normals for Lunenburg itself; the figures are those of Bridgewater, 3.7 km west.
A year in Lunenburg at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Lunenburg’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Nova Scotia beside it.
What a year in Lunenburg feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
About 162 frosts and 105 warm days a year
The frost season runs September to May, and January freezes nearly every night. Some 5 nights a year drop under −20°C.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
About 1,561 mm of rain and snow a year
December brings the most rain and snow; July, the least. 2nd wettest of 90 towns of 2,500+ in Nova Scotia. About 136 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
Snowfall: about 184 cm in a normal year
Expect snow from November to April, with about 50 cm in January, the snowiest month.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Lunenburg
89% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
ECCC sums, over the year, how many degrees each day’s average falls short of 18°C. A house here needs less heating than 70% of Canadian towns.
Living with Lunenburg’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Seedlings can go out once the average last frost, around 26 May, has passed; autumn’s first, near 28 September, ends a season of about 124 days.
Afternoons of 17–27°C and nights of at least 8°C arrive in Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →Thirty years of averages say little about one bad storm; Lunenburg’s hazards page does.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Bridgewater
The page’s figures are ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals for Bridgewater, one of its 450 normals locations.
| Distance from the town | 3.7 km west |
| Station altitude | 27 m |
| Completeness | at least 15 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −33.5°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 36.0°C |
| Next-nearest location | Western Head, 47 km |
How Lunenburg compares
Compared with 2,611 towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more across Canada; the dots mark the other normals locations in Nova Scotia.
Nearby towns’ climate
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Lunenburg’s own would show the same figures). Lunenburg has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 41–75 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lunenburg Bridgewater | 25.5°C | −10.2°C | 1,561 mm |
| Liverpool 41 km · Western Head | 19.9°C 5.6°C cooler | −7.2°C 3.0°C milder | 1,561 mm |
| Annapolis County, Subdivision D 57 km · Greenwood | 26.2°C 0.7°C warmer | −9.8°C about the same | 1,137 mm |
| Windsor 73 km · Waterville Cambridge | 25.9°C about the same | −9.1°C 1.1°C milder | 1,216 mm |
Lunenburg weather by month
Each month’s normals, 1991–2020: high, low, mean, precipitation and snowfall.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow | Snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −0.1°C | −10.2°C | −5.2°C | 136 mm | 50 cm |
| February | 1.0°C | −9.3°C | −4.2°C | 115 mm | 47 cm |
| March | 4.9°C | −5.3°C | −0.2°C | 143 mm | 35 cm |
| April | 10.8°C | −0.2°C | 5.3°C | 121 mm | 13 cm |
| May | 16.8°C | 4.7°C | 10.7°C | 138 mm | under 1 cm |
| June | 22.2°C | 9.7°C | 15.9°C | 104 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.5°C | 13.3°C | 19.4°C | 87 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.4°C | 13.2°C | 19.3°C | 107 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 21.1°C | 9.0°C | 15.1°C | 125 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 14.4°C | 3.5°C | 9.0°C | 162 mm | under 1 cm |
| November | 8.7°C | −0.2°C | 4.3°C | 160 mm | 10 cm |
| December | 3.3°C | −5.2°C | −1.0°C | 163 mm | 30 cm |
| Year | 12.8°C | 1.9°C | 7.4°C | 1,561 mm | 184 cm |
In March, anything from −23.5°C to 28.5°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 (±2.4°C around −5.2°C), August the one that wanders least (±0.8°C).
Where Lunenburg’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the Canadian Climate Normals, 1991–2020, at Bridgewater (the closest location with all twelve months of temperatures).
- Comparisons: Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of at least 2,500, each placed by its nearest location (city totals and reserves excluded).
- Not on this page: sunshine, not in ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals, and the effect of the town’s height, for which there is no figure.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Lunenburg’s climate
How warm does Lunenburg get in summer?
Midsummer means July, with afternoons near 25.5°C on a typical day.
How cold does Lunenburg get in winter?
A typical January night falls to −10.2°C, the year’s low point.
How much rain and snow does Lunenburg get?
A normal year brings 1,561 mm, snow included as water: December is wettest at 163 mm, July driest at 87 mm.
Are these figures for Lunenburg itself?
They come from Bridgewater, which ECCC uses as the nearest normals location for Lunenburg.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Lunenburg →
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).