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    Wilmington, DE · 43°F

    How much snow does Wilmington, Delaware get?

    Not a flake this week.

    Clouds now. No snow in the next 5 days.

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    Snow in the next 5 days

    • Satclouds44° / 42°
    • Sunclouds48° / 37°
    • Monclear skies49° / 36°
    • Tueclear skies52° / 34°
    • Wedclear skies58° / 36°

    No snow for Wilmington 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
    12 in
    Days with 1 in or more
    4
    Winter high
    41°F
    Winter low
    26°F
    First freeze
    Nov 4
    Last freeze
    Apr 7
    Nights at 32°F or below
    87
    Dec, Jan, Feb snow
    0.8, 5.3, 4.0 in

    January is usually the snowiest of the three winter months here, with about 5 inches.

    The first fall freeze usually comes around Nov 4 and the last spring one around Apr 7, which leaves about 211 days without a freeze.

    A typical winter day runs from about 26°F to 41°F, and the low gets down to 32°F or colder on about 87 nights a year.

    Towns with about the same snow

    More towns in Delaware

    • Dover: about 13 inches of snow a year
    • Greenwood: about 13 inches of snow a year

    More about the weather around here

    Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991 to 2020, co-op station USC00079605 at Wilmington. Winter means December to February, and the freeze dates are the median dates of the first and last 32°F night.