Christmas Climate for Rochester, MN

Christmas Climate for Rochester

A few weather facts about Christmas day in Rochester. Precipitation is recorded in inches. Snow on the ground is at 6 am.

Temperature

Normal High:	25
Normal Low:	10
Record High:	53 (2023)
Record Low:	-25 (2000)
Lowest High:	-6 (1996)
Highest Low:	44 (2023)

Precipitation

Record:	0.75 (1893)
Record Snowfall	10.3 (1955)
Record Snow on the Ground	29 (2010)

Number of times with a trace or more of snowfall:	58
Number of times with measurable (over a trace) of snowfall:	28
Number of times with an inch or more of snowfall:	15
Climatological chance for a trace or more of snowfall:	53%
Climatological chance for measurable (over a trace) of snowfall:	26%
Climatological chance of an inch or more of snowfall:	14%
Number of times with a trace or more of snow on the ground:	83
Number of times with an inch or more of snow on the ground:	70
Climatological chance of a trace or more on the ground:	91%
Climatological chance of an inch or more on the ground:	77%

With a "white" Christmas generally considered an inch of snow on the ground (or an inch falling that day), Rochester has had "white" Christmases 70 times (out of 91) since 1933, or 77% of the time. The last non-white Christmas was in 2023. The years of 1936, 1941, 1942, and 1943 were excluded from the statistics due to missing data.

Non-"white" Christmases: 1911, 1914, 1944, 1949, 1953, 1958, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1997, 2002, 2006, 2011, 2021, 2023.

Snowfall used 109 years, snow depth 91 years.