First snow · Alaska
When is the first snow in Fairbanks?
Snow in the next 5 days?
Yes. Snow is in the Fairbanks forecast for today.
It’s 15°F in Fairbanks right now.
Live 5-day forecast and current temperature from OpenWeatherMap, refreshed about every half hour. Winter warnings from the National Weather Service.
Fairbanks’s first measurable snow usually lands around September 30.
Fairbanks gets its first snow before most of the country has finished arguing about pumpkin spice.
Snow’s coming. Heads-up or surprise?
Tomorrow’s roast for FairbanksFree, no account, and you pick how rude I get.Cities on the same snow schedule
Fairbanks is number 1 of 76 for the earliest first snow. Is your city earlier?
- Casper, Wyoming: around October 4
- Cheyenne, Wyoming: around October 6
- Great Falls, Montana: around October 6
The fastest way back here when the snow gets close.
In 8 winters out of 10 it arrives between September 18 and October 15. A typical Fairbanks winter adds up to about 64 inches of snow.
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How much snow Fairbanks gets in a year
Source: NOAA daily snowfall records for the Fairbanks 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.