Ottawa, IL · 38°F
How much snow does Ottawa, Illinois get?
Not a flake this week.
Clear skies now. No snow in the next 5 days.
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Snow in the next 5 days
- Satclear skies43° / 34°
- Sunclear skies49° / 31°
- Monclear skies50° / 30°
- Tueclear skies54° / 32°
- Wedclouds57° / 38°
No snow for Ottawa 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
- 24 in
- Days with 1 in or more
- 10
- Winter high
- 34°F
- Winter low
- 18°F
- First freeze
- Oct 22
- Last freeze
- Apr 20
- Nights at 32°F or below
- 129
- Dec, Jan, Feb snow
- 4.8, 9.2, 5.2 in
January is usually the snowiest of the three winter months here, with about 9 inches.
The first fall freeze usually comes around Oct 22 and the last spring one around Apr 20, which leaves about 185 days without a freeze.
A typical winter day runs from about 18°F to 34°F, and the low gets down to 32°F or colder on about 129 nights a year.
Towns with about the same snow
- Hightstown, NJ: about 24 inches of snow a year
- Woodstock, VA: about 24 inches of snow a year
- Findlay, OH: about 24 inches of snow a year
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 USC00116526 at Ottawa. Winter means December to February, and the freeze dates are the median dates of the first and last 32°F night.