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    Charleston, IL · 40°F

    How much snow does Charleston, Illinois 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 skies43° / 34°
    • Sunclear skies50° / 29°
    • Monclear skies52° / 32°
    • Tueclear skies54° / 33°
    • Wedclear skies58° / 38°

    Not a flake in the Charleston forecast. The clouds are clearly holding a grudge.

    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
    19 in
    Days with 1 in or more
    8
    Winter high
    41°F
    Winter low
    24°F
    First freeze
    Oct 23
    Last freeze
    Apr 15
    Nights at 32°F or below
    105
    Dec, Jan, Feb snow
    3.0, 8.1, 5.5 in

    January is usually the snowiest of the three winter months here, with about 8 inches.

    The first fall freeze usually comes around Oct 23 and the last spring one around Apr 15, which leaves about 191 days without a freeze.

    A typical winter day runs from about 24°F to 41°F, and the low gets down to 32°F or colder on about 105 nights a year.

    Towns with about the same snow

    More towns in Illinois

    • Walnut: about 36 inches of snow a year
    • Mount Carroll: about 33 inches of snow a year
    • Morrison: about 32 inches of snow a year
    • Dixon: about 31 inches of snow a year
    • Marengo: about 31 inches of snow a year

    More about the weather around here

    Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991 to 2020, co-op station USC00111436 at Charleston. Winter means December to February, and the freeze dates are the median dates of the first and last 32°F night.