Average Annual Precipitation for Nova Scotia

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 1971 to 2000.

For the entire province of Nova Scotia, total precipitation in a year amounts to an average 1314 millimetres (52 inches). Province-wide, Nova Scotia averages 174 days annually when it rains or snows.

You can jump to a separate table for each region of Nova Scotia: Cape Breton Island, Northern and Eastern Shores, South Shore and the Annapolis Valley.