Pictou County, Subdivision B is wetter than 92% of Canadian towns: 1,277 mm of rain and snow a year
Expect July afternoons of about 23.1°C. Precipitation peaks in December and eases off in July. By July afternoons alone, it runs cooler than 88% of Canadian towns. Long walks are most pleasant from June to September, when afternoons reach 18–23°C.
ECCC publishes no normals for Pictou County, Subdivision B itself; the figures are those of Caribou Point, 28 km north.
A year in Pictou County, Subdivision B at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Pictou County, Subdivision B’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Nova Scotia beside it.
What a year in Pictou County, Subdivision B feels like
Each season’s and each month’s usual high and low, 1991–2020.
Frost on 133 days, 20°C on 77
Frost comes from November 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
1,277 mm of precipitation in a typical year
Some 141 days a year see 1 mm of rain or snow or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Precipitation: Upper Stewiacke, 41 km away (Caribou Point records no complete year of it).
187 cm of snow in a typical year
Snow falls from November to April, most of all in January (about 53 cm).
Snowfall by month
Centimetres
Caribou Point publishes no full year of snowfall, so these figures come from Tatamagouche, 42 km away.
Living with Pictou County, Subdivision B’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest 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 24 days in a normal year.
Muggy heat with a humidex over 30 arrives on about 24 days a year.
Thirty-year normals hide the storms and the extremes: the hazards page has Pictou County, Subdivision B’s risks.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Caribou Point
Caribou Point is one of the 450 places where ECCC publishes 1991–2020 normals.
| Distance from the town | 28 km north |
| Station altitude | 2 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Precipitation from | Upper Stewiacke, 41 km |
| Snowfall from | Tatamagouche, 42 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −25.9°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 34.6°C |
| Average wind | 19.9 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | Upper Stewiacke, 41 km |
How Pictou County, Subdivision B 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 Pictou County, Subdivision B’s would only repeat its figures. Pictou County, Subdivision B has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 43–49 km out.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pictou County, Subdivision B Caribou Point | 23.1°C | −8.9°C | 1,277 mm |
| Colchester County, Subdivision B 43 km · Debert | 25.0°C 1.9°C warmer | −12.0°C 3.1°C colder | 1,179 mm |
| Colchester County, Subdivision C 47 km · Upper Stewiacke | 25.1°C 2.0°C warmer | −11.6°C 2.7°C colder | 1,277 mm |
Pictou County, Subdivision B 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 | −1.3°C | −8.9°C | −5.1°C | 116 mm | 53 cm |
| February | −1.5°C | −9.2°C | −5.4°C | 100 mm | 46 cm |
| March | 1.5°C | −5.1°C | −1.8°C | 107 mm | 35 cm |
| April | 6.5°C | 0.1°C | 3.3°C | 92 mm | 11 cm |
| May | 12.8°C | 5.5°C | 9.1°C | 95 mm | 1 cm |
| June | 18.3°C | 10.9°C | 14.6°C | 97 mm | 0 cm |
| July | 23.1°C | 15.6°C | 19.4°C | 88 mm | 0 cm |
| August | 23.0°C | 15.9°C | 19.5°C | 95 mm | 0 cm |
| September | 19.6°C | 12.4°C | 16.0°C | 106 mm | 0 cm |
| October | 13.6°C | 7.3°C | 10.5°C | 125 mm | under 1 cm |
| November | 8.0°C | 1.8°C | 4.9°C | 123 mm | 7 cm |
| December | 2.7°C | −3.7°C | −0.5°C | 133 mm | 34 cm |
| Year | 10.5°C | 3.5°C | 7.0°C | 1,277 mm | 187 cm |
In April, anything from −12.5°C to 29.1°C
Two years in three, January’s average falls within 2.2°C of its normal of −5.1°C; August keeps to within 1.0°C.
Where Pictou County, Subdivision B’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 Canadian Climate Normals at Caribou Point, the closest ECCC location with twelve months of temperature normals.
- 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: sunshine, which none of ECCC’s 450 locations publishes for 1991–2020, and the town’s own height above sea level, so no figure is adjusted for altitude.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Pictou County, Subdivision B’s climate
How warm does Pictou County, Subdivision B get in summer?
The year’s warmest days come in July, with highs averaging 23.1°C.
How cold does Pictou County, Subdivision B get in winter?
Deep winter means February, when nights average −9.2°C.
How much rain and snow does Pictou County, Subdivision B get?
A normal year brings 1,277 mm, snow included as water: December is wettest at 133 mm, July driest at 88 mm.
Are these figures for Pictou County, Subdivision B itself?
Not directly: Pictou County, Subdivision B has no ECCC normals of its own, and Caribou Point stands in for it.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Pictou County, Subdivision B →
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