Skip to content
    Home
    WeatherWithAttitudeOpen the app

    First snow · New York

    When is the first snow in New York?

    New York’s first snow usually lands first in Binghamton, around November 3, and last in New York City, around December 10.

    New York’s first snow hits upstate weeks before the city notices, and upstate never lets the city forget it.
    Get roasted by your own forecastFree, no account, and you pick how rude I get.

    That makes New York number 7 of the 36 states we track, earliest first.

    Last updated

    Snow in the next 5 days?

    • No. There’s no snow in the Binghamton forecast for the next 5 days.
    • No. There’s no snow in the Buffalo forecast for the next 5 days.
    • No. There’s no snow in the Rochester forecast for the next 5 days.
    • No. There’s no snow in the Syracuse forecast for the next 5 days.
    • No. There’s no snow in the Albany forecast for the next 5 days.
    • No. There’s no snow in the New York forecast for the next 5 days.

    Live 5-day forecast and current temperature from OpenWeatherMap, refreshed about every half hour. Winter warnings from the National Weather Service.

    First snow, city by city

    CityUsually around8 winters in 10Snow a winter
    BinghamtonNovember 3October 15 to November 21about 89 in
    BuffaloNovember 8October 20 to November 27about 96 in
    RochesterNovember 8October 27 to November 22about 102 in
    SyracuseNovember 8October 19 to November 20about 127 in
    AlbanyNovember 14October 27 to December 8about 58 in
    New YorkDecember 10November 25 to January 17about 30 in

    Usually around is the middle date across 30 winters. In 8 winters out of 10, the first snow lands inside the range.

    States on the same snow schedule

    • South Dakota: from around November 3 in Rapid City
    • Utah: from around November 5 in Salt Lake City
    • Iowa: from around November 7 in Sioux City

    Every state’s first snow, earliest first

    Source: NOAA daily snowfall records for each city’s official station, winters 1991 to 2020, via the Applied Climate Information System. First snow here means the first day with at least a tenth of an inch.

    Check the weather where you are