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Hamden, Connecticut, 5,455 students in 10 schools

Hamden School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Hamden, measured against Hamden's own big snow morning of 9 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Hamden close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Hamden.
The Hamden playbook

How Hamden calls a snow day

How families hear

By the district website and local TV.

“For emergency closings, including weather-related closings, please check this district site or your local television station (WTNH-8, WFSB-3, WTIC-61, WVIT-30).”
Hamden Public Schools - School Hours

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 31, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 12 to Feb 15
  • Last day June 15, 2027
District calendar

Recent snow days

  • 2025 to 2026. Schools and offices closed Monday, Feb. 23, 2026 for a winter storm.
    “Due to the inclement weather, Hamden Public Schools and offices will be closed Monday, Feb. 23, 2026.”
    News report

Read from Hamden’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is hamden.org.

Ten winters of school mornings

Hamden’s snow record

27.7inches of snow a winter
2.3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.3with 4 in or more
9 ina big snow morning in Hamden: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
0.6Nov
5.1Dec
8.3Jan
9.9Feb
3.7Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 15 in on January 26, 2026
  • Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 52.5 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 3.7 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 10.6 miles away. Mornings are the 7 am snow reading on a weekday from December 1 through March 31, over the ten winters from 2016 to 2017 through 2025 to 2026, from NOAA GHCN Daily.

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The Connecticut rule

How Connecticut counts a lost day

Connecticut requires at least 180 days and 900 hours of actual school work, counting no more than 7 hours a day.

The Connecticut rules in the agency’s own words, and every Connecticut district

Next door

Districts near Hamden

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
New Haven School DistrictNew Haven34 in1.6
North Haven School DistrictNorth Haven27.7 in1.3
East Haven School DistrictEast Haven25 in1.3
Regional High School District 05Woodbridge34 in1.6
West Haven School DistrictWest Haven34 in1.6
North Branford School DistrictNorthford27.7 in1.3
The schools

10 schools

Every school in Hamden follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

  • Hamden High School

Middle

  • Hamden Middle School

Elementary

  • Bear Path School
  • Spring Glen School
  • Ridge Hill School
  • West Woods School
  • Shepherd Glen School
  • Helen Street School
  • Church Street School
  • Dunbar Hill School
Questions

Hamden snow day questions

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A residential street under deep snow on a bright blue morning, cars parked along the curb buried into smooth white mounds, one set of tire tracks down the middle
The morning after a big one: cars buried to the mirrors and one set of tracks down the middle. A street like this is a closing, no debate. Photo, Fairfax, Virginia, January 2016: Jarek Tuszyński, CC BY 4.0

The odds are a forecast read, and the superintendent makes the call: the district’s own announcement is the one to follow.