Photo: A Disappearing Act · CC BY-SA 4.0Precipitation in Middleton tops that of 84% of Canadian towns: 1,137 mm a year
Expect July afternoons of about 26.2°C. By January nights alone, it runs milder than 71% of Canadian towns. December is the wettest month, July the driest. About 131 days a year bring 1 mm of precipitation or more.
Borrowed figures: Middleton has no normals station, so these come from Greenwood, 12 km east.
A year in Middleton at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Middleton’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Nova Scotia beside it.
What a year in Middleton feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
About 153 frosts and 115 warm days a year
Frost comes from October to May; in January almost every night freezes. About 9 days a year top 30°C.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
Rain and melted snow: about 1,137 mm a year
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Rain alone by month
Millimetres
About 268 cm of snow a year
The snow season runs November to May; January brings the most, about 78 cm. 7th snowiest of 91 towns of 2,500+ in Nova Scotia.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Snow on the ground by month
Centimetres at month’s end
Heating a home in Middleton
90% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to April.
A heating degree day is one degree of shortfall below 18°C for one day, summed over the year. Over a year, a home here needs less heating than 70% of Canadian towns.
Living with Middleton’s climate
Gardening, time outside, winter cold and summer heat, from the 1991–2020 normals.
Seedlings can go out once the average last frost, around 10 May, has passed; autumn’s first, near 5 October, ends a season of about 147 days.
Afternoons of 17–27°C and nights of at least 8°C arrive in Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →The wind chill passes −20 on about 19 days in a normal year.
Muggy heat with a humidex over 30 arrives on about 41 days a year.
Storms, floods and heat waves sit outside these normals; Middleton’s hazards page covers them.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Greenwood
Every temperature, frost, snow and degree-day figure on this page is the 1991–2020 normal ECCC publishes for Greenwood.
| Distance from the town | 12 km east |
| Station altitude | 28 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | Yes |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −35.5°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 35.6°C |
| Average wind | 13.6 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Waterville Cambridge, 35 km |
How Middleton 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
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Middleton’s would only repeat its figures. Middleton has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 28–47 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middleton Greenwood | 26.2°C | −9.8°C | 1,137 mm |
| Berwick 28 km · Waterville Cambridge | 25.9°C about the same | −9.1°C 0.7°C milder | 1,216 mm |
| Annapolis County, Subdivision A 46 km · Kejimkujik | 25.5°C 0.7°C cooler | −9.6°C about the same | 1,453 mm |
Middleton 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 | −9.8°C | −5.0°C | 104 mm | 78 cm |
| February | 0.4°C | −9.6°C | −4.6°C | 87 mm | 60 cm |
| March | 4.3°C | −5.5°C | −0.6°C | 90 mm | 45 cm |
| April | 10.6°C | 0.0°C | 5.3°C | 83 mm | 13 cm |
| May | 17.5°C | 5.2°C | 11.3°C | 78 mm | 1 cm |
| June | 22.5°C | 10.1°C | 16.4°C | 82 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 26.2°C | 14.0°C | 20.1°C | 75 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 25.7°C | 13.1°C | 19.4°C | 80 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 21.3°C | 8.9°C | 15.1°C | 106 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 14.6°C | 3.7°C | 9.2°C | 107 mm | under 1 cm |
| November | 8.7°C | −0.3°C | 4.2°C | 120 mm | 15 cm |
| December | 3.1°C | −5.5°C | −1.2°C | 125 mm | 56 cm |
| Year | 12.9°C | 2.0°C | 7.5°C | 1,137 mm | 268 cm |
Two years in three, February’s average lands within 2.3°C of normal, against the steadier August
February has the widest record range, −35.5°C in 1993 to 20.0°C in 2017; the tick on each bar is the month’s normal.
Where Middleton’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: ECCC’s 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals for Greenwood, the nearest location with a full year of temperatures.
- Comparisons: every place of 2,500+ in Canada but the city hubs and the reserves, each on its nearest ECCC location.
- 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 Middleton’s climate
How warm does Middleton get in summer?
Of all twelve months, July has the warmest afternoons, about 26.2°C.
How cold does Middleton get in winter?
Of all twelve months, January has the coldest nights, about −9.8°C.
How much rain and snow does Middleton get?
Precipitation totals 1,137 mm a year, with December the wettest month (125 mm) and July the driest (75 mm).
How long does snow stay on the ground?
A layer of at least 1 cm stays down on about 93 days a year.
Are these figures for Middleton itself?
They are the closest available: the normals for Greenwood, since Middleton has none.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Middleton →
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).