First snow · Montana
When is the first snow in Missoula?
Snow in the next 5 days?
Yes. Snow is in the Missoula forecast for today.
It’s 30°F in Missoula right now.
Live 5-day forecast and current temperature from OpenWeatherMap, refreshed about every half hour. Winter warnings from the National Weather Service.
Missoula’s first measurable snow usually lands around November 4.
Missoula’s first snow settles into the valley like it signed a lease and plans to stay till spring.
Snow’s coming. Heads-up or surprise?
Tomorrow’s roast for MissoulaFree, no account, and you pick how rude I get.Cities on the same snow schedule
Missoula is number 14 of 76 for the earliest first snow. Is your city earlier?
- Binghamton, New York: around November 3
- Rapid City, South Dakota: around November 3
- Salt Lake City, Utah: around November 5
The fastest way back here when the snow gets close.
In 8 winters out of 10 it arrives between October 11 and November 19. A typical Missoula winter adds up to about 43 inches of snow.
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How much snow Missoula gets in a year
Source: NOAA daily snowfall records for the Missoula 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.