Today
Has it rained enough in Halifax?
Rain soaked in today, and the ground has taken it.
Halifax has had 95.4mm of rain in the last 30 days. A normal October here brings 130.6mm, so the ground is roughly where it should be for the time of year.
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
17 OctToday
Thirty years
Rain in Halifax through a normal year
Across a normal year Halifax gets about 1356.1mm of rain, most of it in December (144.2mm) and least in May (81.3mm).
A normal October in Halifax has rain on 13 days. Only 9 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Halifax one of the wetter places this site covers in Canada in October — 2nd of 11, against Vancouver at the wet end (249.2mm) and Edmonton at the dry end (23.1mm).
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Average rainfall by month, 1995–2024
What it means
What that means for what you grow
- Pots and hanging basketsWorth checking by hand even so — a pot in the sun can dry out in a wet week, because there is so little soil to hold anything.
- Beds and bordersNothing needed. Watering soil that is already wet does more harm than good.
- New plantingsAnything planted within the last month is the exception; its roots have not spread far enough to find water on their own.