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    How much snow does Madison get?

    Madison gets about 52 inches of snow in a typical year.

    Madison gets about 52 inches of snow a year, on top of lakes it then freezes solid and walks across.
    Tomorrow’s roast for MadisonFree, no account, and you pick how rude I get.

    On about 15 days a year, an inch of snow or more falls. January is the snowiest month, with about 14 inches. That makes it the 24th 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 Madison forecast for the next 5 days.

    It’s 35°F in Madison 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
    October0.6 in
    November3.0 in
    December12.0 in
    January13.7 in
    February12.8 in
    March7.0 in
    April2.6 in
    May0.1 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 USW00014837.