Amherst, MA · 42°F
How much snow does Amherst, Massachusetts get?
No snow. The sky’s sulking.
Clouds now. No snow in the next 5 days.
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Snow in the next 5 days
- Satclouds42° / 39°
- Sunclouds46° / 38°
- Monclouds45° / 33°
- Tueclouds53° / 29°
- Wedclouds58° / 37°
No snow for Amherst this week. The sky’s saving it for a bigger entrance.
Live 5-day forecast and current temperature from OpenWeatherMap, refreshed about every half hour. Winter warnings from the National Weather Service.
A typical winter
- Snow a year
- 37 in
- Days with 1 in or more
- 12
- Winter high
- 37°F
- Winter low
- 17°F
- First freeze
- Oct 8
- Last freeze
- May 5
- Nights at 32°F or below
- 153
- Dec, Jan, Feb snow
- 7.5, 8.1, 11.0 in
February is usually the snowiest of the three winter months here, with about 11 inches.
The first fall freeze usually comes around Oct 8 and the last spring one around May 5, which leaves about 156 days without a freeze.
A typical winter day runs from about 17°F to 37°F, and the low gets down to 32°F or colder on about 153 nights a year.
Towns with about the same snow
- Alexandria, SD: about 36 inches of snow a year
- Casselton, ND: about 37 inches of snow a year
- Canton, SD: about 36 inches of snow a year
More towns in Massachusetts
- Reading: about 64 inches of snow a year
- Bedford: about 59 inches of snow a year
- Walpole: about 56 inches of snow a year
- West Medway: about 52 inches of snow a year
- Plymouth: about 38 inches of snow a year
More about the weather around here
Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991 to 2020, co-op station USC00190120 at Amherst. Winter means December to February, and the freeze dates are the median dates of the first and last 32°F night.