First snow · Montana
When is the first snow in Great Falls?
Great Falls right now
49°FClear skies
- Today56°F / 42°FClear skies
- Tomorrow57°F / 36°FClear skies
- Monday56°F / 38°FClouds
Make the most of it, obviously.
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Snow in the next 5 days?
Yes. Snow is in the Great Falls forecast for Tuesday.
Live 5-day forecast and current temperature from OpenWeatherMap, refreshed about every half hour. Winter warnings from the National Weather Service.
Great Falls’s first measurable snow usually lands around October 6.
Great Falls gets snow in early October and then a warm chinook that pretends none of it happened.
Snow’s coming. Heads-up or surprise?
Tomorrow’s roast for Great FallsFree, no account, and you pick how rude I get.Cities on the same snow schedule
Great Falls is number 4 of 76 for the earliest first snow. Is your city earlier?
- Cheyenne, Wyoming: around October 6
- Casper, Wyoming: around October 4
- Fairbanks, Alaska: around September 30
The fastest way back here when the snow gets close.
In 8 winters out of 10 it arrives between September 21 and October 25. A typical Great Falls winter adds up to about 65 inches of snow.
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How much snow Great Falls gets in a year
Source: NOAA daily snowfall records for the Great Falls 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.