Nova Scotia weather average

The tables below give yearly averages for rainfall plus snowfall at cities, towns and parks in Nova Scotia. Each place has a total for how many days of wet weather it usually gets a year and for the normal amount of precipitation.

The calculation of days only includes the days when precipitation totalled at least 0.2 millimetres (0.008 inches). The annual amount of precipitation is an average of weather data collected during 1981 to 2010.

You can jump to a separate table for each region of Nova Scotia:, , and the .

Cape Breton Island

Average yearly precipitation

Days	Place	Inches	Milli­metres
187	Baddeck	60.4	1535
203	Cheticamp	54.1	1375
207	Ingonish Beach	69.0	1753
184	Louisbourg	64.8	1646
189	Port Hawkesbury	54.5	1384
191	Sydney	59.7	1517

Northern & Eastern Shores

Annual averages for rainfall plus snowfall

159	Pictou	48.5	1232
155	Pugwash	40.9	1038
192	Sable Island	59.5	1512
128	Stillwater - Sherbrooke	60.0	1525

South Shore

Average amount of rain and snow a year

166	Bridgewater	60.5	1536
162	Halifax	57.8	1468
147	Liverpool - Milton	64.7	1643
Yarmouth	50.9	1293

Annapolis Valley

Average annual precipitation

161	Amherst - Nappan	45.5	1155
133	Annapolis Royal
152	Kejimkujik National Park	53.1	1348
167	Kentville	46.5	1181
181	Parrsboro	50.0	1270
175	Truro	46.6