First snow · Massachusetts
When is the first snow in Boston?
Snow in the next 5 days?
No. There’s no snow in the Boston forecast for the next 5 days.
It’s 43°F in Boston right now.
Live 5-day forecast and current temperature from OpenWeatherMap, refreshed about every half hour. Winter warnings from the National Weather Service.
Boston’s first measurable snow usually lands around December 2.
Boston’s first snow is only the warm-up act. The real show is the parking chair that appears the next morning.
Snow’s coming. Heads-up or surprise?
Tomorrow’s roast for BostonFree, no account, and you pick how rude I get.Cities on the same snow schedule
Boston is number 63 of 76 for the earliest first snow. Is your city earlier?
- St. Louis, Missouri: around December 2
- Hartford, Connecticut: around December 1
- Kansas City, Missouri: around December 3
The fastest way back here when the snow gets close.
In 8 winters out of 10 it arrives between October 30 and December 20. A typical Boston winter adds up to about 49 inches of snow.
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How much snow Boston gets in a year
Source: NOAA daily snowfall records for the Boston area, winters 1991 to 2020 (30 with complete records), via the Applied Climate Information System. First snow here means the first day with at least a tenth of an inch.