After a chilly start, April weather finished close to average for the Maritimes

A woman heads through the fog-shrouded Halifax Public Gardens in Halifax. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press)

Temperature and precipitation finished near climate averages for the month of April in the Maritimes. In fact, in their monthly weather and climate summary, Environment and Climate Change Canada noted “the month was almost as typical as they come.”

April 2025 temperatures

April did start cooler than average with intermittent rounds of colder rain and some snow. Anecdotally, I was given a few complaints about the cooler, damper conditions from viewers. A spell of warmer temperatures at the end of the month helped pull temperatures up closer to average.

That of course isn’t uncommon for the spring season in the Maritimes. With any given month it featured periods of extended cooler temperatures followed by a warmer break or two.

April 2025 precipitation

The region didn’t lack for April showers! Most sites in the Maritimes finished the month with near-to-above precipitation compared to the climate average for April.

Snow in the month of April is a common occurrence in the Maritimes. This past April ended up a bit snowier than typical for a number of sites. That includes Bas-Caraquet, New Brunswick (37 cm), the Halifax (21 cm) and Yarmouth (15 cm) areas of Nova Scotia, and even Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island (27 cm). Much of central and southern New Brunswick finished below average for April snow.

Sea ice

Any remaining sea ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence mostly melted through the month of April. The sea ice season in the Gulf of St. Lawrence ran well below the climate average from start to finish for the 2024/25 season. The analysis and comparison is courtesy of the Canadian Ice Service.

Sea surface temperatures were found to be mostly near normal for all East Coast waters in the month of April.