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Albany, New York, 8,329 students in 16 schools

Albany City School District Snow Day Predictor

The odds of a closing or a delay on the next three school mornings in Albany, measured against Albany's own big snow morning of 5.5 inches.

The next three school mornings

Will Albany close tomorrow?

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

How Albany calls a snow day

How families hear

By phone call, text message and email.

“Parents and guardians also can create a SchoolMessenger account to manage your preferences for how you receive updates (phone, text and/or email), but this is not necessary to receive messages.”
SchoolMessenger: Alerts and Updates | City School District of Albany

3 built in snow days

On the 2026 to 2027 calendar, listed as “emergency closings”.

“Three days are planned for emergency closings. For each day used, the following become days of instruction: May 27, June 1, May 28”
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Making up a lost day

Each emergency day used turns a scheduled day off into a school day, in the order May 27, June 1, May 28.

“For each day used, the following become days of instruction: May 27, June 1, May 28”
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The 2026 to 2027 calendar

  • First day September 4, 2026
  • Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
  • February break Feb 15 to Feb 19
  • Last day June 25, 2027
District calendar

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

Ten winters of school mornings

Albany’s snow record

47.7inches of snow a winter
4.8school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more
3.1with 4 in or more
5.5 ina big snow morning in Albany: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

More 4 inch school mornings than 64% of the 676 New York districts with a station record.

1.3Nov
12.5Dec
10.8Jan
10.8Feb
11.2Mar
Average snowfall by month, inches
  • Biggest day 18.8 in on December 17, 2020
  • Snowiest winter 2017 to 2018, 67.4 in
  • 6 in mornings 1.4 a winter
  • 1 in mornings 7.4 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 2.9 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 New York rule

How New York counts a lost day

New York requires 180 days of session plus 900 hours a year for kindergarten to grade 6 and 990 hours for grades 7 to 12. The Commissioner can excuse up to 5 days closed for extraordinary weather, but only if the district cannot make them up by using all its scheduled vacation days before the June Regents exams.

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

Next door

Districts near Albany

DistrictSnow a winter4 in mornings
Rensselaer City School DistrictRensselaer47.7 in3.1
East Greenbush Central School DistrictEast Greenbush47.7 in3.1
Troy City School DistrictTroy35.2 in2.7
North Colonie Central School DistrictLatham52.3 in2.2
Watervliet City School DistrictWatervliet35.2 in2.7
Bethlehem Central School DistrictDelmar47.7 in3.1
The schools

16 schools

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

High

  • Albany High School
  • Cap Dist Juvenile Secure Detention

Middle

  • William S Hackett Middle School
  • Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School
  • North Albany Academy Middle School

Elementary

  • New Scotland Elementary School
  • Giffen Memorial Elementary School
  • Pine Hills Elementary School
  • Roots Academy at West Hill
  • Albany School of Humanities
  • Montessori Magnet School
  • Delaware Community School
  • Eagle Point Elementary School
  • Arbor Hill Elementary School
  • Thomas S O'Brien Academy of Science & Technology
  • Sheridan Preparatory Academy
Questions

Albany snow day questions

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More winter

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