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Birmingham City School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Birmingham, measured against Birmingham's own big snow morning of 3.3 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Birmingham close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Beverly Hills.
The Birmingham playbook

How Birmingham calls a snow day

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day August 31, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 23 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 19
  • Last day June 11, 2027
District calendar

Read from Birmingham’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is birmingham.k12.mi.us.

Ten winters of school mornings

Birmingham’s snow record

29.8inches of snow a winter
3school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
1with 4 in or more
3.3 ina big snow morning in Birmingham: the top tenth of snowy school mornings
3.1school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder
3.3Nov
5.5Dec
8.7Jan
8.5Feb
3.2Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 8.6 in on November 12, 2019
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 48.7 in
  • 6 in mornings 0.1 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 6.9 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 7 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 Birmingham

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Bloomfield Hills School DistrictBloomfield Hills29.8 in1
Berkley School DistrictOak Park29.8 in1
Southfield Public School DistrictSouthfield29.8 in1
Clawson City School DistrictClawson31.3 in0.9
Oak Park City School DistrictOak Park23.5 in0.9
Royal Oak City School DistrictRoyal Oak31.3 in0.9
The schools

13 schools

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

High

  • Ernest W Seaholm High School, Birmingham
  • Wylie E Groves High School

Middle

  • Berkshire Middle School
  • Birmingham Covington School, Bloomfield Hills
  • Derby Middle School, Birmingham

Elementary

  • West Maple Elementary School, Bloomfield Hills
  • Pierce Elementary School, Birmingham
  • Harlan Elementary School, Bloomfield Hills
  • Quarton Elementary, Birmingham
  • Bingham Farms Elementary School, Bingham Farms
  • Pembroke Elementary School, Troy
  • Beverly Elementary School
  • Greenfield Elementary School
Questions

Birmingham 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.