Nashua School District Snow Day Predictor

Q: When is the last day of school for Nashua?

June 14, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

Q: How much snow does Nashua get?

About 49.9 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 1.4 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 5.8 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 2.5 with 4 inches or more.

Q: What was the biggest snow day near Nashua?

16.8 inches on March 14, 2018, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 1.4 miles away in 10 winters. The snowiest winter was 2017 to 2018, with 83 inches.

Q: How does the Nashua snow day predictor work?

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for Nashua through the night and the 5 to 8 am bus run, adds winter alerts and the Winter Storm Severity Index, and measures the snow against Nashua’s own big snow morning: 5.5 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 1.4 miles away.

The next three school mornings

Will Nashua close tomorrow?

Reading the National Weather Service forecast for the overnight and the bus hours in Nashua.

The Nashua playbook

How Nashua calls a snow day

Making up a lost day

June 14, 2027 is the tentative last day; up to nine make-up days follow, June 15 to 18 and June 21 to 25.

Make up dates: Jun 15, Jun 16, Jun 17, Jun 18, Jun 21, Jun 22, Jun 23, Jun 24, Jun 25.

“14-Tentative Last Day MU = Make-Up Days”

Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

First day August 25, 2026
Winter break Dec 23 to Jan 1
February break Feb 22 to Feb 26
Last day June 14, 2027

District calendar

The board policy

“The school calendar will include at least 190 days to provide for instructional time lost due to inclement weather and unexpected circumstances, for staff development/in service activities, and for parent-teacher conferences.”

Board policy

Read from Nashua’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is nashua.edu.

Ten winters of school mornings

Nashua’s snow record

49.9inches of snow a winter

5.8school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more

2.5with 4 in or more

5.5 ina big snow morning in Nashua: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

3.6school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

1.2Nov

9.5Dec

14.7Jan

13.7Feb

8.9Mar

Average snowfall by month, inches

Biggest day 16.8 in on March 14, 2018
Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 83 in
6 in mornings 1.5 a winter
1 in mornings 8.5 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 1.4 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.

The New Hampshire rule

How New Hampshire counts a lost day

New Hampshire requires 180 days or the required hours: 450 in kindergarten, 945 in grades 1 to 6 and 990 in grades 7 to 12. Lost time must be rescheduled with added hours before a district can ask for a waiver of the hours requirement.

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

Next door

Districts near Nashua

District	Snow a winter	4 in mornings	Built in days
Hudson School DistrictHudson	55.4 in	2.5	3
Litchfield School DistrictLitchfield	47.3 in	3
Hollis-Brookline Cooperative School DistrictHollis	51.8 in	3.3
Merrimack School DistrictMerrimack	47.3 in	3
Pelham School DistrictPelham	55.4 in	2.5
Windham School DistrictWindham	55.4 in	2.5

The schools

21 schools

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

High

Nashua High School South
Nashua High School North
Brentwood Academy

Middle

Elm Street Middle School
Pennichuck Middle School
Fairgrounds Middle School

Elementary

Bicentennial Elementary School
Fairgrounds Elementary School
Ledge Street School
Dr. Norman W. Crisp School
Charlotte Ave Elementary School
Sunset Heights School
Main Dunstable School
Birch Hill Elementary School
Amherst Street School
Mt. Pleasant School
New Searles School
Broad Street Elementary School

Other schools

Franklin Street School
Nashua Title I Preschool
Purple Panthers Preschool

Questions

Nashua snow day questions

When is the last day of school for Nashua?

How much snow does Nashua get?

What was the biggest snow day near Nashua?

How does the Nashua snow day predictor work?

How does New Hampshire handle snow days?

More winter

More for New Hampshire 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.New Hampshire winter forecastThe season ahead for New Hampshire: 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.