At a Glance

The average last snowfall is in the spring in many locations.A few places can see snow during early summer.

By spring, the sight of a blanket of snow may cause more aggravation among the snow-fatiguedinstead of the excitement it generated in October or November.

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We scoured National Weather Service records to compile both the average date of the final measurablesnow (at least 0.1 inches) of the spring, and also the date of the latest spring accumulating snow on record. In some locations, that record-latest date was in the summer.

The colors of each dot correspond to the month of the season's average last snow.

(Data courtesy of NWS-NOWDATA)

The map above indicates the average montheach location can usually put away the shovel or snowblower for the season.

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In the Northeast, areas closer to the coast usually see thelast snowfall of the season during March. For areas farther north and inland, the last snowfall typically takes place in April.

Areas across the northern Plains into the upper Midwest and northern Great Lakes typically experience the last snowfall of the season in April, while areas farther south usually say goodbye to additional snowfall in March.

Farther west, many locations wait until May or later to see the last snowfall of the season. One location not listed in the table below, Mount Rainier, Washington, sees the average last snowfall on July 13.

Alaska is not shown on the map at the top. Dates for average last snowfall there range from March 31 in Juneau to June 21 in Utqiaġvik (formerly known as Barrow).

Footnotes:

We only plotted cities and locations whose average last measurable snow of the season occurs in March or later. As a result, our nation's capital was among cities not plotted (average date of last snow of the season is Feb. 24).Since accumulating graupel or hail is also officially classified as snow in daily and monthly climate reports, we made every effort to quality check each "latest snow" record, removing those dates when temperatures were clearly too warm for snow, on which hail likely fell instead.