Climate averages 1991–2020
Dartmouth weather
in February.
A freezing month with heavy precipitation: the 11th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a freezing month in Dartmouth: daytime highs average -0.1°C and nights cool to about -7.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 101 mm of precipitation on roughly 11 days, which makes February a month with heavy precipitation (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 24 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Halifax (3 km away). In February its highs average -0.2°C, about as warm as Dartmouth, with 101 mm of precipitation.
Among the 86 cities listed in Canada, Dartmouth ranks joint 20th of 86 for the warmest February highs and joint 71st of 86 for the driest February (precipitation, lowest first). The mean February high of those 86 cities is -0.9°C; Dartmouth is 0.8°C warmer than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 3.2°C to 3.0°C, and monthly precipitation rises from 101 mm to 108 mm.
The annual picture
February in context
Monthly precipitation
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Dartmouth climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -0.5°C-7.9°C | -7.9°C | 111 | 11.5 | 9.29 h |
| February, selected | -0.1°C-7.7°C | -7.7°C | 101 | 10.5 | 10.410 h |
| March | 3.0°C-4.0°C | -4.0°C | 108 | 12.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 8.1°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 92 | 12.1 | 13.413 h |
| May | 13.6°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 83 | 11.2 | 14.815 h |
| June | 18.4°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 98 | 11.7 | 15.516 h |
| July | 22.2°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 90 | 10.3 | 15.215 h |
| August | 22.5°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 91 | 10.2 | 14.114 h |
| September | 19.3°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 97 | 9.4 | 12.613 h |
| October | 13.5°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 124 | 10.6 | 11.011 h |
| November | 7.9°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 129 | 11.1 | 9.610 h |
| December | 2.9°C-3.0°C | -3.0°C | 134 | 13.3 | 8.99 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
February in nearby cities
- Halifax in FebruaryCanada · 3 kmHigh -0.2°C · Low -7.0°C · 101 mm precipitation
- Moncton in FebruaryCanada · 185 kmHigh -2.5°C · Low -11.8°C · 83 mm precipitation
- Saint John in FebruaryCanada · 206 kmHigh -1.7°C · Low -9.1°C · 96 mm precipitation
- Sydney, Canada in FebruaryCanada · 311 kmHigh -1.2°C · Low -7.9°C · 111 mm precipitation
- Québec in FebruaryCanada · 638 kmHigh -5.0°C · Low -14.0°C · 69 mm precipitation
- Lynn in FebruaryUnited States · 642 kmHigh 2.7°C · Low -4.8°C · 84 mm rain
- Lawrence (Massachusetts), United States in FebruaryUnited States · 648 kmHigh 2.6°C · Low -6.7°C · 76 mm rain
- Boston in FebruaryUnited States · 656 kmHigh 2.8°C · Low -6.3°C · 84 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Dartmouth) is explained once on the Dartmouth year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Halifax lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.