New York City Public Schools Snow Day Predictor

Q: How does New York City Public Schools announce a snow day?

By phone call and radio, and on the district’s own closings page.

Q: Does New York City Public Schools switch to remote learning on a snow day?

It can. New York City Public Schools has remote learning days in its winter plan. When a closing gets likely, the morning here reads "Snow day or remote day".

Q: When is the last day of school for New York City Public Schools?

June 28, 2027, on the district’s 2026 to 2027 calendar.

Q: How much snow does New York get?

About 21.9 inches a winter at a NOAA weather station 4.9 miles away, averaged over 10 winters. Between December 1 and March 31 that brings 1.4 weekday mornings a year with 2 inches of new snow or more, and 0.9 with 4 inches or more.

Q: What was the biggest snow day near New York City Public Schools?

14.8 inches on February 1, 2021, the largest single day at a NOAA weather station 4.9 miles away in 10 winters. The snowiest winter was 2025 to 2026, with 43.4 inches.

Q: How does the New York City Public Schools snow day predictor work?

It reads the National Weather Service forecast for New York 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 New York City Public Schools’s own big snow morning: 6.4 inches, the top tenth of snowy weekday mornings at a NOAA weather station 4.9 miles away.

The next three school mornings

Will New York City Public Schools close tomorrow?

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

The New York City Public Schools playbook

How New York City Public Schools calls a snow day

How families hear

By phone call and radio.

“Automated telephone calls are made to provide information about delays and/or cancellations to families.”

Weather Emergency Procedures

Remote learning days

New York City Public Schools has remote learning days in its winter plan.

“On days when school buildings are closed due to inclement weather or other emergencies, NYCPS may be in session remotely .”

Source

The 2026 to 2027 calendar

First day September 10, 2026
Winter break Dec 24 to Jan 1
February break Feb 15 to Feb 19
Last day June 28, 2027

District calendar

Recent snow days

2025 to 2026. Full snow day with no remote instruction on Monday, February 23, 2026, ahead of a blizzard.
“Mayor Mamdani also announced that all New York City Public School buildings, except those operating as warming centers, will be closed on Monday, Feb. 23. There will be a traditional ‘snow day.’ No remote instruction will take place”
District notice

Read from New York City Public Schools’s own pages on October 8, 2026; the district site is schools.nyc.gov.

Ten winters of school mornings

New York City Public Schools’s snow record

21.9inches of snow a winter

1.4school mornings a winter with 2 in of new snow or more

0.9with 4 in or more

6.4 ina big snow morning in New York City Public Schools: the top tenth of snowy school mornings

0school mornings a winter at 0 F or colder

0.6Nov

3.4Dec

5.9Jan

8.2Feb

3.2Mar

Average snowfall by month, inches

Biggest day 14.8 in on February 1, 2021
Snowiest winter 2025 to 2026, 43.4 in
6 in mornings 0.7 a winter
1 in mornings 3 a winter

Measured at a NOAA weather station 4.9 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.

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 New York City Public Schools

District	Snow a winter	4 in mornings	Built in days
Floral Park-Bellerose Union Free School DistrictFloral Park	21.3 in	0.9
Elmont Union Free School DistrictElmont	21.3 in	0.9
Valley Stream Union Free School District 30Valley Stream	21.3 in	0.9
Lawrence Union Free School DistrictCedarhurst	21.3 in	0.9
Valley Stream Central High School DistrictValley Stream	21.3 in	0.9
Great Neck Union Free School DistrictGreat Neck	21.3 in	0.9	2

The schools

1,591 schools, the 40 largest here

Every school in New York City Public Schools follows the district’s call: one closing covers them all.

High

Brooklyn Technical High School, Brooklyn
Francis Lewis High School, Fresh Meadows
Fort Hamilton High School, Brooklyn
Midwood High School, Brooklyn
Tottenville High School, Staten Island
James Madison High School, Brooklyn
Edward R Murrow High School, Brooklyn
Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School, Brooklyn
Forest Hills High School, Forest Hills
Stuyvesant High School
New Utrecht High School, Brooklyn
New Dorp High School, Staten Island
Bayside High School, Bayside
Benjamin N Cardozo High School, Bayside
Bronx High School of Science (the), Bronx
Susan E Wagner High School, Staten Island
John Bowne High School, Flushing
John Adams High School, Ozone Park
Hillcrest High School, Jamaica
Curtis High School, Staten Island
Thomas A Edison Career and Technical Education High School, Jamaica
John Dewey High School, Brooklyn
Abraham Lincoln High School, Brooklyn
Fiorello H Laguardia High School
William Cullen Bryant High School, Long Island City
Newtown High School, Elmhurst
Long Island City High School, Long Island City
Aviation Career and Technical Education High School, Long Island City
Port Richmond High School, Staten Island
Harry S Truman High School, Bronx
Richmond Hill High School, Richmond Hill
High School for Health Professions & Human Services
Manhattan Center for Science & Mathematics

Middle

IS 61 Leonardo Da Vinci, Corona
JHS 259 William McKinley, Brooklyn
IS 73 Frank Sansivieri Intermediate School (the), Maspeth
MS 137 America's School of Heroes, Ozone Park
JHS 157 Stephen A Halsey, Rego Park

Elementary

PS 19 Marino Jeantet, Corona

Other schools

New Explorations Into Sciencetech and Math High School

Questions

New York City Public Schools snow day questions

How does New York City Public Schools announce a snow day?

Does New York City Public Schools switch to remote learning on a snow day?

When is the last day of school for New York City Public Schools?

How much snow does New York get?

What was the biggest snow day near New York City Public Schools?

How does the New York City Public Schools snow day predictor work?

How does New York handle snow days?

More winter

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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.