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Bay City, Michigan, 6,180 students in 13 schools

Bay City School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Bay City, measured against Bay City's own big snow morning of 3.2 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Bay City close tomorrow?

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

How Bay City calls a snow day

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 25, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 21 to Jan 1
  • Last day June 4, 2027
District calendar

Read from Bay City’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is bcschools.net.

Ten winters of school mornings

Bay City’s snow record

34.6inches of snow a winter
4.1school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1.4with 4 in or more
3.2 ina big snow morning in Bay City: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
4.3school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
2.5Nov
8.5Dec
10.6Jan
9.2Feb
3.4Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 7.5 in on February 23, 2023
  • Snowiest winter 2022 to 2023, 45.8 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.3 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 7.4 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 5.6 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 Michigan rule

How Michigan counts a lost day

Michigan requires at least 180 days and 1,098 hours of pupil instruction. The first 6 days (or the same hours) lost to conditions outside the district's control, such as severe storms, are counted as instruction; up to 3 more can be approved by the State Superintendent.

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

Next door

Districts near Bay City

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Bangor Township SchoolsBay City34.6 in1.4
Essexville-Hampton Public SchoolsEssexville34.6 in1.4
Carrollton School DistrictSaginaw30.2 in1.1
Saginaw Township Community SchoolsSaginaw30.2 in1.1
Freeland Community School DistrictFreeland30.9 in0.7
Saginaw City School DistrictSaginaw30.2 in1.1
The schools

13 schools

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

High

  • Bay City Western High School, Auburn
  • Bay City Central High School
  • Bay City Eastern High School
  • Bay City Adult EducationCTP

Middle

  • Western Middle School, Auburn
  • Handy Middle School

Elementary

  • Auburn Elementary School, Auburn
  • Kolb Elementary School
  • Hampton Elementary School
  • Washington Elementary School
  • McAlearSawden Elem School
  • MacGregor Elementary School
  • Mackensen Elementary School
Questions

Bay City snow day questions

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More winter

More for Michigan snow days

Snow day predictorClosing and delay odds for any ZIP, with the snowiest districts in the country.Snow depth mapHow much snow is on the ground right now, measured, across the country.First snow datesWhen the first measurable snow usually lands where you live.Frozen pipesThe nights cold enough to freeze a pipe, and what to do before one.Snow plow trackerWhere the plows are during a storm, city by city.Michigan winter forecastThe season ahead for Michigan: snowfall, cold and the first snow.
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.