Snowfall · Michigan
How much snow does Detroit get?
Detroit gets about 45 inches of snow in a typical year.
Detroit gets about 45 inches of snow a year and greets each inch with the shrug of a city that has seen worse.
Tomorrow’s roast for DetroitFree, no account, and you pick how rude I get.
On about 14 days a year, an inch of snow or more falls. January is the snowiest month, with about 14 inches. That makes it the 37th 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 Detroit forecast for the next 5 days.
It’s 41°F in Detroit 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 | a trace or none |
| November | 1.9 in |
| December | 8.9 in |
| January | 14.0 in |
| February | 12.5 in |
| March | 6.2 in |
| April | 1.5 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
- Scranton, Pennsylvania: about 45 inches a year
- Sioux Falls, South Dakota: about 45 inches a year
- Spokane, Washington: about 45 inches a year
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Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991 to 2020, station USW00094847.