Snowfall · Massachusetts
How much snow does Boston get?
Boston gets about 49 inches of snow in a typical year.
Boston gets about 49 inches of snow a year, and it likes to arrive all at once so the city can talk about it for a decade.
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On about 11 days a year, an inch of snow or more falls. February is the snowiest month, with about 14 inches. That makes it the 30th 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 Boston forecast for the next 5 days.
It’s 43°F in Boston right now.
Live 5-day forecast and current temperature from OpenWeatherMap, refreshed about every half hour. Winter warnings from the National Weather Service.
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Snow by month
| September | a trace or none |
|---|---|
| October | 0.2 in |
| November | 0.7 in |
| December | 9.0 in |
| January | 14.3 in |
| February | 14.4 in |
| March | 9.0 in |
| April | 1.6 in |
| May | a trace or none |
Average snowfall in each month, 1991 to 2020. June to August get none.
Cities with about the same snow
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin: about 49 inches a year
- Rapid City, South Dakota: about 49 inches a year
- Lansing, Michigan: about 50 inches a year
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Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991 to 2020, station USW00014739.