Today in Halifax
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Not a holiday today. The next statutory holiday in Nova Scotia is Christmas Day on Thursday, December 24, 2026 — in 40 days.
Mainly cloudy with 30 percent chance of showers. Fog patches dissipating in the morning. Wind becoming northwest 20 km/h in the afternoon. High 6. UV index 2 or low.
Observation time 10:02 p.m. · Environment Canada
0h 03m less daylight than yesterday. The days are getting shorter. At this latitude the change is steep enough to notice week to week.
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Ideal air quality for outdoor activities. Enjoy your usual outdoor activities.
What the index meansToday’s puzzles — #318
All gamesReading today’s numbers
A few of these figures are easy to misread, so here is what each one actually tells you.
- The AQHI is a health scale, not a pollution reading. It runs from 1 to 10 and above, weighted toward the pollutants that affect health, so the same number means roughly the same risk in every Canadian city. Above 7, reduce strenuous activity outdoors.
- Daylight is not the same as sunshine. The figure above is the time between sunrise and sunset. Cloud cover is separate — Halifax can have a long day and a grey one.
- “Feels like” is wind chill or humidex. Environment Canada publishes wind chill in the cold half of the year and humidex in the warm half; you will only ever see one of them at a time.
- Air quality is measured at one station. Ours is Halifax. Local conditions a few kilometres away can differ.
If you need someone today
Emergency is always 911. For city services, see the city services page; for health advice that is not an emergency, see the health care page.