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White Christmas odds / Connecticut

White Christmas 2026 in Connecticut: The Odds, Town by Town

Connecticut's best odds of a white Christmas are 66% at Norfolk, likely, and 28% at the typical station.

Connecticut, at Bridgeport Sikorsky

22%a long shot
Bridgeport Sikorsky Memorial Airport5 ftShare of Christmases with 1 inch or more on the ground, 1991 to 2020
  1. 20162016: bare
  2. 20172017: bare
  3. 20182018: bare
  4. 20192019: bare
  5. 20202020: bare
  6. 20212021: bare
  7. 20222022: bare
  8. 20232023: bare
  9. 20242024: bare
  10. 20252025: bare

1 inch or more bare no report

No white Christmas here in the last 10 years.

Deeper snow: 11% for 3 inches or more, 7% for 5 inches or more.

Your own town in Connecticut:

Photo: “Burns Avenue, Snow - Winter in St. Paul, Minnesota” by Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0

Connecticut at a glance

Snow on the ground, Christmas morning
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Stations in the data
NOAA normals, 1991 to 2020
66%
Best odds in the state
Norfolk, likely
28%
Typical station
the middle of the stations we track
6 in
Deepest recent Christmas
Norfolk, 2017
Reference stations

Connecticut odds, station by station

The odds of 1, 3 and 5 inches of snow on the ground on December 25, from the 1991 to 2020 NOAA normals, with how many of the last ten Christmases were white where the station reported.

White Christmas odds at Connecticut reference stations
StationElevation1 inch+3 inch+5 inch+Last 10
Bridgeport Sikorsky Memorial Airporta long shot5 ft22%11%7%0 of 10
Norfolk 2 SWlikely1,340 ft66%45%33%8 of 10
W Thompson Lakea long shot360 ft28%18%14%0 of 9
Norwich Public Utility Plta long shot20 ft25%12%9%0 of 10
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Best bets

The best bets in Connecticut

The highest and northernmost stations in Connecticut have the best odds, and elevation does most of the work. The top four are Norfolk, Bakersville, Barkhamsted and Danbury.

  1. 66%Norfolk 2 SW1,340 ft, likely
  2. 56%Bakersville686 ft, a coin flip
  3. 43%Barkhamsted710 ft, a coin flip
  4. 36%Danbury405 ft, a long shot
A rolling hillside under a fresh blanket of snow with a stand of bare birch trees along the ridge in Minnesota
Birches on a snowy hillside in northern Minnesota. “Minnesota Winter-Hello” by *Micky, CC BY 2.0

Connecticut white Christmas questions

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