Chapel Hill, NC · 50°F
How much snow does Chapel Hill, North Carolina get?
No snow. The sky’s sulking.
Clear skies now. No snow in the next 5 days.
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Snow in the next 5 days
- Satclear skies52° / 44°
- Sunclear skies56° / 32°
- Monclear skies52° / 37°
- Tueclear skies57° / 35°
- Wedclear skies61° / 36°
Chapel Hill 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
- 3 in
- Days with 1 in or more
- 1
- Winter high
- 53°F
- Winter low
- 31°F
- First freeze
- Nov 3
- Last freeze
- Mar 31
- Nights at 32°F or below
- 77
- Dec, Jan, Feb snow
- 0.2, 1.5, 0.9 in
January is usually the snowiest of the three winter months here, with about 2 inches.
The first fall freeze usually comes around Nov 3 and the last spring one around Mar 31, which leaves about 217 days without a freeze.
A typical winter day runs from about 31°F to 53°F, and the low gets down to 32°F or colder on about 77 nights a year.
Towns with about the same snow
- Tullahoma, TN: about 3 inches of snow a year
- Carlsbad, NM: about 3 inches of snow a year
- Jackson, TN: about 3 inches of snow a year
More towns in North Carolina
- Marshall: about 26 inches of snow a year
- Waynesville: about 11 inches of snow a year
- Highlands: about 10 inches of snow a year
- Mount Airy: about 8 inches of snow a year
- Reidsville: about 7 inches of snow a year
More about the weather around here
Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991 to 2020, co-op station USC00311677 at Chapel Hill. Winter means December to February, and the freeze dates are the median dates of the first and last 32°F night.