First snow · Kansas
When is the first snow in Wichita?
Snow in the next 5 days?
No. There’s no snow in the Wichita forecast for the next 5 days.
It’s 43°F in Wichita right now.
Live 5-day forecast and current temperature from OpenWeatherMap, refreshed about every half hour. Winter warnings from the National Weather Service.
Wichita’s first measurable snow usually lands around December 4.
Wichita’s first snow blows across the plains so fast it barely counts as having landed.
Snow’s coming. Heads-up or surprise?
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Wichita is number 66 of 76 for the earliest first snow. Is your city earlier?
- Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: around December 5
- Kansas City, Missouri: around December 3
- Louisville, Kentucky: around December 5
The fastest way back here when the snow gets close.
In 8 winters out of 10 it arrives between October 26 and January 2. A typical Wichita winter adds up to about 13 inches of snow.
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How much snow Wichita gets in a year
Source: NOAA daily snowfall records for the Wichita 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.