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Residency in Halifax, Nova Scotia

28 programs list Halifax as where they train in 2027: 25 in the R-1 match and 3 in the FM/ES match, at 1 school. They state 112 positions in all.

  • 439,819

    Population, 2021

  • A city of 100,000+

    Halifax population centre, 348,634 people

  • about 25 min drive

    Airport with scheduled flights

  • 8 h 48 min to 15 h 35 min

    Shortest and longest day

28 programs in 2027 · 25 R-1 · 3 FM/ES · 1 school

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Halifax City Hall's stone clock tower and facade
Photo: WayeMason · CC BY-SA 3.0(opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons(opens in a new tab)

Key numbers for Halifax

Winter

−4.1 °CJanuary mean8 h 48 mindaylight on 21 Dec

0.9 days a year below −20 °C · 215 cm of snow a year

Daily means, 1991–2020 normals, Shearwater, 11.0 km away.

Snowfall: Halifax Stanfield (Airport), 20.9 km away.

Summer

18.5 °CJuly mean15 h 35 mindaylight on 21 Jun

Daily means, 1991–2020 normals, Shearwater, 11.0 km away.

Nearest city of 100,000+

This is one

Halifax population centre, 348,634 people.

Airport with scheduled flights

about 25 minby road

To Halifax / Stanfield International Airport (YHZ), 21.1 km away in a straight line.

Rent vs PGY-1 pay

$1,680a month

One-bedroom, new tenant, Halifax: 25.7% of gross PGY-1 pay in Nova Scotia ($78,578 a year).

After tax (pay and rent after tax, on the provinces page)

Ochre marks a figure past a fixed line below, and nothing else. Places are not compared with each other.

The lines: under 8 h of daylight on 21 Dec; 17 h or more on 21 Jun; 30 or more days a year below −20 °C; 4 h or more by road to a city of 100,000+; 90 min or more by road to the airport; rent at 30% or more of gross PGY-1 pay.

Programs in Halifax

2027 programs whose location label names Halifax, grouped by match, disciplines A to Z.

R-1 match 25 programs

Enhanced skills (FM/ES) 3 programs

Hospitals in Halifax

Hospitals here whose clinical record system an official source states, A to Z. This is not a list of every hospital in Halifax: one that isn’t shown has no official statement we could find, which says nothing about its system. It describes the hospital, not any program.

  • IWK Health Centre

    Clinical record
    Oracle Health (One Person One Record), fully electronic record since Dec 2025 As of 31 Oct 2026

  • QEII - Halifax Infirmary Site

    Clinical record
    One Person One Record, fully electronic record since May 2026 As of 31 Oct 2026

  • QEII - Victoria General (VG) Site

    Clinical record
    One Person One Record, fully electronic record since May 2026 As of 31 Oct 2026

Nova Scotia's One Person One Record is live at IWK Health and at Nova Scotia Health's Central Zone. The other zones follow, provincewide by the end of 2026 (the province's date). As of 31 Oct 2026

Verify with the official source: each source button opens the publisher’s own page.

Living in Halifax

Public statistics for this place, each with its source and reference period. They describe the place, not any program. Check each source before you rely on it.

More photos

Photos of Halifax from Wikimedia Commons, openly licensed and credited under each. They show the place, not the program.

Where it is and getting around

Map of the area around Halifax, with dashed rings 10 km and 50 km from the centre and the airport YHZ marked.

The dashed rings are 10 km and 50 km from the centre of the place. This is a picture, not a live map.

Nearest airport with scheduled flights: YHZ, 21 km away in a straight line.

Open on the map (the map page, with this province selected)

Drive times are free-flow estimates on roads from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), rounded: no traffic, weather or ferry waits.

Nearest airport with scheduled flights
27.3 km by road Scheduled service as listed by OurAirports; check the airport for current routes.

Weather and daylight

Average temperature, °C

Average temperature by month: −4.1 °C in January, 19.1 °C in AugustMonthly mean temperature, January to December, in degrees Celsius: −4.1, −3.7, −0.3, 4.5, 9.5, 14.4, 18.5, 19.1, 15.8, 10.2, 5.0, −0.2. Year: 7.4.−10°0°10°20°−4.1°JFMAMJ18.5°JASOND

Daily mean, 1991–2020 normals at Shearwater, 11.0 km away.

Show the numbers: Monthly climate normals, 1991–2020, from Shearwater and Halifax Stanfield (Airport)
Monthly climate normals, 1991–2020, from Shearwater and Halifax Stanfield (Airport)
MonthAverage temperature (°C)Snowfall (cm)Days below −20 °C
January−4.153.90.6
February−3.744.30.3
March−0.334.40.0
April4.516.60.0
May9.52.10.0
June14.40.00.0
July18.50.00.0
August19.10.00.0
September15.80.00.0
October10.20.60.0
November5.019.40.0
December−0.244.10.0
Whole year7.4215.20.9

Hours of daylight

Hours of daylight by month: 8 h 50 min in December, 15 h 33 min in JuneSunrise to sunset on the 15th of each month, in hours: 9.2, 10.4, 11.8, 13.4, 14.8, 15.6, 15.3, 14.1, 12.6, 11.1, 9.6, 8.8. Jun: 15 h 33 min. Dec: 8 h 50 min.0.0 h6.0 h12.0 h18.0 h24.0 hFebAprJunAugOctDec15 h 33 min8 h 50 min8.8 h

Sunrise to sunset on the 15th of each month, computed from the latitude (44.71° N). Hills and cloud are not counted.

Show the numbers: Daylight, sunrise to sunset, computed from latitude
Daylight, sunrise to sunset, computed from latitude
DayDaylight
January 159 h 10 min
February 1510 h 25 min
March 1511 h 50 min
April 1513 h 26 min
May 1514 h 47 min
June 1515 h 33 min
July 1515 h 16 min
August 1514 h 07 min
September 1512 h 36 min
October 1511 h 04 min
November 159 h 38 min
December 158 h 50 min
21 Dec, shortest day8 h 48 min
21 Jun, longest day15 h 35 min

Things to do nearby

Places mapped in OpenStreetMap within a set distance of the town centre. A count, not a rating.

In town, within 10 km

  • 608parks
  • 289playgrounds
  • 10ice rinks
  • 6swimming pools with a name
  • 9climbing places
  • 17libraries
  • 21museums
  • 16theatres
  • 4cinemas
  • 7arts centres
  • 1music venue
  • 7markets

Outdoors, within 50 km

  • 69protected areas with a name
  • 32nature reserves with a name
  • 892lakes with a name
  • 95beaches
  • 38campsites
  • none mappedfor ski areas
  • 31golf courses

Protected and conserved areas on the official list within 50 km: 32.

Nearest mapped ski area: Ski Martock, 51 km in a straight line.

On foot and by bike, within 25 km

  • 539 kmof footpaths
  • 161 kmof signed hiking and bike routes

Lengths of mapped paths and signed routes follow how much has been mapped locally more than how much trail there is.

Counts what volunteers have mapped, not everything that exists; small and northern towns are often under-mapped, so “none mapped” is not “none”.

Map data from OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab), available under the Open Database License (opens in a new tab).

People

2021 Census. Figures are for the municipality of Halifax, not the metropolitan area. Statistics Canada rounds counts, so small places are approximate.

Age

Median age 40.4. People aged 20 to 39: 29.8%.

  • 0 to 14 14.8%
  • 15 to 64 67.9%
  • 65 and over 17.3%

Municipality of Halifax, 2021 Census.

Show the numbers: Age of residents, 2021 Census
Age of residents, 2021 Census
Age groupShare of residents
0 to 1414.8%
15 to 6467.9%
65 and over17.3%
20 to 39 (inside 15 to 64)29.8%
Median age40.4 years

Official languages people can speak

  • English only 87.1%
  • English and French 12.2%
  • French only 0.1%
  • Neither 0.6%

Share of residents who can conduct a conversation in each. Not the language spoken at home.

Show the numbers: Official languages residents can speak, 2021 Census
Official languages residents can speak, 2021 Census
Can speakShare of residents
English only87.1%
English and French12.2%
French only0.1%
Neither0.6%
Immigrants
11.6% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 4.1% · non-permanent residents: 3.9%
Indigenous identity
3.8% of residents
How people commute
car, truck or van 81.5% · public transit 8.1% · walking or cycling 8.0% · other 2.4% Average commute: 21.4 minutes. Shares are of people who commute.The way Canadians commute was altered in 2021 by the pandemic, with lockdowns to slow the spread of COVID-19 and changes in how and where Canadians worked leading to 2.8 million fewer commuters, compared with five years earlier. Statistics Canada, The Daily, 30 Nov 2022(opens in a new tab)
Median household income
$81,000 before tax $69,500 after tax · income year 2020, in 2020 dollars

Rural context, housing and work

Each figure names the area it covers. A missing line means the source publishes nothing for this area. These describe the place, not every site a program trains in.

Population centre
Halifax, a large urban population centre (100,000 or more people) 348,634 people in 2021
Remoteness index
0.199 0 is least remote, 1 is most remote. Statistics Canada calls this index experimental.
Rental vacancy rate
2.6% October 2025 survey, Halifax, Nova Scotia (census metropolitan area). The share of purpose-built rentals (three units and over) vacant, not a rent.
Basic cost of living
$54,855 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, Halifax, Nova Scotia, for two adults with two children. A modest, basic basket (the poverty line), not a resident’s budget. A size-class region is not the town itself.
Unemployment rate
5.8% September 2026, three-month average, seasonally adjusted, Halifax, Nova Scotia (census metropolitan area); standard error 0.5 points. A survey estimate.

Sources and licences

  • Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census Cartographic Boundary Files.
  • Adapted from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Rental Market Survey, October 2025 (vacancy rates), and Statistics Canada, Table 34-10-0130-01. This does not constitute an endorsement by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation or Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Computed from latitude.
  • Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Protected and Conserved Areas Database (December 2025). Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada.
  • Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada (Canadian Climate Normals 1991-2020).
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Index of Remoteness (17-26-0001), 2021. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population, table 98-10-0011-01, and the 2021 Census Cartographic Boundary Files. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 14-10-0459-01 Labour force characteristics by census metropolitan area, three-month moving average, seasonally adjusted, reference month 2026-09. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 11-10-0066-01 Market Basket Measure (MBM) thresholds for the reference family by Market Basket Measure region, component and base year, 2025. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Map data from OpenStreetMap (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright), available under the Open Database License (ODbL).
  • Drive times computed from OpenStreetMap road data, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
  • Airport data from OurAirports (public domain).
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0011-01 Population and dwelling counts: Canada and population centres, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population, table 98-10-0022-01. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0002-01 Population and dwelling counts: Canada and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0057-01 Household income statistics by household type: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0173-01 Mother tongue by knowledge of official languages: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0266-01 Indigenous identity by Registered or Treaty Indian status: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0307-01 Immigrant status and period of immigration by place of birth: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0458-01 Main mode of commuting by commuting duration, time leaving for work, age and gender: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
  • Photographs: Wikimedia Commons. Each photo is credited under it with its author and licence (CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA or public domain). Resized and re-encoded as WebP; not cropped.
  • Map data from OpenStreetMap (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright), available under the Open Database License (ODbL).
  • Map images drawn from OpenFreeMap tiles (https://openfreemap.org), © OpenMapTiles (https://openmaptiles.org).
  • Airport data from OurAirports (public domain).

Across Nova Scotia

A page for each specialty trained in Halifax lists its programs across Nova Scotia, school by school.

Nearby places

Places with a page within 300 km of Halifax in a straight line, nearest first; not a driving distance.

Other places in Nova Scotia 4

Places with a page, A to Z.

A program’s streams share one row, and a quota two of its streams both state is counted once in the totals. Positions are the quotas each program page states; a program that states none is not counted as zero. CdnMD is independent of CaRMS: confirm everything on carms.ca (opens in a new tab).