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    Canton, SD · 34°F

    How much snow does Canton, South Dakota 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

    • Satclouds41° / 30°
    • Sunclear skies49° / 26°
    • Monclear skies54° / 33°
    • Tueclouds54° / 42°
    • Wedclouds58° / 46°

    Canton stays snow-free for 5 days. Winter’s still deciding if it’s worth the trip.

    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
    36 in
    Days with 1 in or more
    13
    Winter high
    28°F
    Winter low
    9°F
    First freeze
    Oct 2
    Last freeze
    May 2
    Nights at 32°F or below
    160
    Dec, Jan, Feb snow
    7.4, 7.0, 8.5 in

    February is usually the snowiest of the three winter months here, with about 9 inches.

    The first fall freeze usually comes around Oct 2 and the last spring one around May 2, which leaves about 153 days without a freeze.

    A typical winter day runs from about 9°F to 28°F, and the low gets down to 32°F or colder on about 160 nights a year.

    Towns with about the same snow

    More towns in South Dakota

    • Spearfish: about 71 inches of snow a year
    • Murdo: about 49 inches of snow a year
    • Eureka: about 44 inches of snow a year
    • Faulkton: about 44 inches of snow a year
    • Dupree: about 41 inches of snow a year

    More about the weather around here

    Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991 to 2020, co-op station USC00391392 at Canton. Winter means December to February, and the freeze dates are the median dates of the first and last 32°F night.