Ragweed Pollen Count in Halifax, NS

Last updated Thursday, November 5, 2026

This page shows the most recent reading available for Halifax — from Thursday, November 5, 2026 (2 days ago) — not today's reading.

Pollen by type in Halifax

What is the ragweed pollen count in Halifax today?

The Halifax ragweed pollen index today is 0.6 (Low) on Pollen Atlas’s modelled 0–100 scale. Low

Modelled pollen risk index — not a measured count.

Halifax’s overall pollen count today is 5 (Low) across all types. See the full Halifax pollen count for the overall index and every type together.

Halifax is in Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada. Its population is 471,559 (GeoNames).

Halifax Ragweed Pollen Count: 5-Day Forecast

DayOverall indexCategory
Thursday, November 55Low
Friday, November 65Low
Saturday, November 75Low
Sunday, November 85Low
Monday, November 95Low

Pollen Atlas models the daily detail as an overall index: day-by-day splits by individual pollen type are not part of the modelled data, so this table shows Halifax’s overall trend across the week. Today’s ragweed pollen reading is the headline above.

Species driving Halifax’s ragweed pollen

Species-level counts are not part of the modelled data Pollen Atlas publishes — the modelled index is reported per pollen type, not per species — so this section gives the type summary: ragweed pollen reads 0.6 (Low) today. The plant-by-plant detail that is available, from the Google Pollen API, is in the next section.

How to read this: the “ragweed” figure on this site is the modelled weed pollen index — the weed group (ragweed + mugwort) — printed under the ragweed name the rankings use.

Plants affecting Halifax now — ragweed pollen

Detailed plant-by-plant readings for the ragweed pollen category were not returned in today’s source data for Halifax. The type summary stands: ragweed pollen reads 0.6 (Low) today.

In the Northeast pattern, the plants that typically shape this city’s year are spring trees, late-spring grasses and late-summer ragweed — named here as regional context only, not as today’s readings.

Plant detail returns here automatically on any day the feed includes it.

What this ragweed pollen level means

Low risk. Keep windows open; consider allergy meds only if sensitive.

Enjoy outdoor activities.

Ragweed builds from mid-August, peaks in September, and is ended by the first hard frost. This month sits outside the usual ragweed pollen window for the Northeast pattern, so today’s ragweed pollen reading is the modelled value outranking the calendar — this page reports the modelled reading first. No Nova Scotia allergy season guide is published yet, so the seasonal context here follows the Northeast regional pattern.

Halifax allergies today

Halifax allergies today are set by the same reading as the Halifax pollen count today: the Total Pollen Index is 5 (Low), and the ragweed pollen index on this page is 0.6 (Low) of it. When people ask about Halifax allergies, this is the number that answers them — one daily modelled index built from today’s tree, grass and weed index values for Halifax.

Allergies in Halifax follow the Nova Scotia calendar set out on the full Halifax page — the chapters, the plants behind them, and the 5-day forecast show whether today is typical for the season or an exception to it. If you are checking allergies today in Halifax before heading outdoors, the ragweed pollen split on this page is the part to read: it shows whether this pollen type is doing the work today, not just how high the total sits.

Read the five-day overall trend above as the Halifax allergy forecast for the ragweed pollen season: it shows whether Halifax allergies are set to ease or build across the week, day by day — the days to plan outdoor time around are the ones where the overall index steps down, not just today.

See the full Halifax pollen count — all types, the overall index and today’s ranking context

Halifax tree pollen count

Halifax grass pollen count

See how Halifax ranks in today's pollen count rankings — the worst cities for allergies today

See Halifax on the pollen map

Every pollen type, with photos and seasons: the pollen directory

Worst cities for allergies

Ragweed season

Find an allergist in Halifax, NS

Pollen indexes: a modelled pollen risk index computed by Pollen Atlas from open weather, vegetation and phenology data, calibrated against CDC/NAB season data. Plant detail: Google Pollen API. Index values are modelled, not measured counts. Sources: CDC/NAB; USA-NPN; GBIF (CC BY); ESA WorldCover (CC BY 4.0).