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    How much snow does Bismarck get?

    Bismarck gets about 51 inches of snow in a typical year.

    Bismarck gets about 51 inches of snow a year, and the prairie gives it nowhere to hide, so it just lies there.
    Tomorrow’s roast for BismarckFree, no account, and you pick how rude I get.

    On about 14 days a year, an inch of snow or more falls. December is the snowiest month, with about 10 inches. That makes it the 28th snowiest of the 75 US cities we track.

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    Snow in the next 5 days?

    No. There’s no snow in the Bismarck forecast for the next 5 days.

    It’s 35°F in Bismarck right now.

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

    Snow by month

    Septembera trace or none
    October2.5 in
    November8.0 in
    December10.1 in
    January8.9 in
    February7.5 in
    March8.5 in
    April4.6 in
    May0.4 in

    Average snowfall in each month, 1991 to 2020. June to August get none.

    Cities with about the same snow

    Every city’s snowfall, snowiest first

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    Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991 to 2020, station USW00024011.