Photo: Ann Baekken · CC BY 2.0Precipitation in Millbrook 27 tops that of 89% of Canadian towns: 1,179 mm a year
The warmest part of a July day comes in at 25.0°C on average. By July afternoons alone, it runs cooler than 62% of Canadian towns. The seasons are far apart: from a winter night to a summer afternoon the average spans 37°C. Ice scrapers and block heaters earn their keep on roughly 170 days a year at 0°C or below.
Millbrook 27 has no ECCC normals station of its own: every figure here comes from Debert, 14 km north-west.
A year in Millbrook 27 at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Millbrook 27’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Nova Scotia beside it.
What a year in Millbrook 27 feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
About 170 frosts and 97 warm days a year
From September to May frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. Some 11 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
1,179 mm of precipitation in a typical year
December brings the most rain and snow; February, the least. Some 134 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
About 187 cm of snow a year
The snow season runs November to April; January brings the most, about 53 cm.
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
ECCC’s Debert normals leave snowfall out; the figures here come from Tatamagouche, 39 km away.
Heating a home in Millbrook 27
88% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
ECCC sums, over the year, how many degrees each day’s average falls short of 18°C.
Living with Millbrook 27’s climate
What the normals mean for a garden, a day outside and the depth of winter.
Between the last frost, near 1 June, and the first, near 25 September, lie about 115 frost-free days.
Highs of 17–27°C with nights of 8°C or more come in Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep.
Parks & trails →The wind chill passes −20 on about 27 days in a normal year.
The air feels heavier than 30 on the humidex for about 31 days a year.
Bad-weather days, from blizzards to floods, get their own page for Millbrook 27: the hazards page.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Debert
Behind the 1991–2020 normals for Debert are 2 stations, which ECCC combines into one record.
| Distance from the town | 14 km north-west |
| Station altitude | 38 m |
| Completeness | meets the WMO “3 and 5” rule |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | Tatamagouche, 39 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −35.0°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 33.1°C |
| Average wind | 12.4 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Upper Stewiacke, 22 km |
How Millbrook 27 compares
Placed among 2,611 Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500+, each on its nearest normals location; each dot is another location used in Nova Scotia.
Nearby towns’ climate
The nearest places on a normals location of their own: those that share Millbrook 27’s would only repeat its figures. Millbrook 27 has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 7–29 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Millbrook 27 Debert | 25.0°C | −12.0°C | 1,179 mm |
| Colchester County, Subdivision C 6.5 km · Upper Stewiacke | 25.1°C about the same | −11.6°C about the same | 1,277 mm |
| Indian Brook 14 29 km · Halifax Stanfield (Airport) | 24.2°C 0.8°C cooler | −10.1°C 1.9°C milder | 1,393 mm |
Millbrook 27 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 | −1.4°C | −12.0°C | −6.7°C | 91 mm | 53 cm |
| February | −0.9°C | −11.6°C | −6.2°C | 77 mm | 46 cm |
| March | 3.1°C | −7.1°C | −2.0°C | 81 mm | 35 cm |
| April | 9.4°C | −1.5°C | 4.0°C | 90 mm | 11 cm |
| May | 16.1°C | 3.6°C | 9.9°C | 89 mm | 1 cm |
| June | 21.0°C | 8.6°C | 14.8°C | 99 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 25.0°C | 12.7°C | 18.9°C | 88 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 24.4°C | 12.1°C | 18.3°C | 92 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 20.1°C | 8.2°C | 14.2°C | 119 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 13.6°C | 2.9°C | 8.3°C | 118 mm | under 1 cm |
| November | 7.6°C | −1.3°C | 3.2°C | 114 mm | 7 cm |
| December | 1.9°C | −7.2°C | −2.7°C | 121 mm | 34 cm |
| Year | 11.7°C | 0.6°C | 6.2°C | 1,179 mm | 187 cm |
In January, anything from −35.0°C to 16.5°C
February is the least predictable month: about two years in three its average lands within 2.3°C of the normal, −6.2°C. August is the steadiest, within 0.9°C.
Where Millbrook 27’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 normals from ECCC for Debert, its nearest location with complete temperatures.
- Other locations: a location missing months of precipitation or snow is filled from the nearest that has them all, never mixed month by month.
- Comparisons: all Canadian places of 2,500 or more except city totals and reserves, each read the same way.
- Not on this page: hours of sunshine, missing from the 1991–2020 normals, and a height correction: the town has no elevation on file.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Millbrook 27’s climate
How warm does Millbrook 27 get in summer?
Afternoons average 25.0°C in July, the warmest time of year.
How cold does Millbrook 27 get in winter?
Of all twelve months, January has the coldest nights, about −12.0°C.
How much rain and snow does Millbrook 27 get?
Precipitation totals 1,179 mm a year, with December the wettest month (121 mm) and February the driest (77 mm).
Are these figures for Millbrook 27 itself?
Not quite: they come from Debert, the closest ECCC normals location to Millbrook 27.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Millbrook 27 →
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).