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Halifax weather

Nova Scotia · 471,559 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 13:49

Air: Good

5°

Clear sky

Feels like 2°C

Wind

12 km/h

Gusts

40 km/h

Humidity

88 %

Pressure

1023 hPa

Clouds

17 %

Storm

Rise 07:48 Set 18:07 Day 10 h 19 min UV 4 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Afternoon

Clear sky

15°12°

Feels like 15°

Wind ↑ SW 15 km/h

Gusts 31 km/h

Humidity 60 %

Evening

Clear sky

11°10°

Feels like 11°

Wind ↑ SW 19 km/h

Gusts 57 km/h

Humidity 83 %

15:00

15°

SW 15

18:00

11°

SW 15

Halifax forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Halifax climate: what a normal year looks like

Nights typically freeze from December to March, the coldest averaging −7 °C in January.

From 15 h 34 min of daylight in late June to 8 h 48 min in late December.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 23 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −7 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 22 °C.

There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 87 mm and 139 mm on average.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 13 °C, 1 °C cooler than a normal October (14 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	1 °C	−8 °C	116 mm
Feb	1 °C	−7 °C	106 mm
Mar	3 °C	−4 °C	113 mm
Apr	8 °C	1 °C	97 mm
May	14 °C	6 °C	87 mm
Jun	18 °C	10 °C	100 mm
Jul	22 °C	15 °C	95 mm
Aug	23 °C	15 °C	93 mm
Sep	20 °C	12 °C	100 mm
Oct	14 °C	8 °C	128 mm
Nov	8 °C	2 °C	132 mm
Dec	4 °C	−3 °C	139 mm
Whole year	11 °C	4 °C	1,310 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 44.64° N, 63.58° W, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Halifax: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.52µg/m³

PM102µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Halifax

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Halifax, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Moon over Halifax

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 14:10 Set 06:14

Fri 30/10 79%

Sat 31/10 69%

Sun 1/11 59%

Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter

Tue 3/11 38%

Wed 4/11 28%

Thu 5/11 19%

Fri 6/11 12%

Sat 7/11 6%

Sun 8/11 2%

Mon 9/11 0%

Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (America/Halifax); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Halifax

Curious about the weather in Halifax on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Halifax weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Halifax, Nova Scotia: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 5 °C (feels like 2 °C) and the wind blows at 12 km/h.

Expected range today: 2 °C to 15 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations