How Much Snow and Rain Does the United States Get? State and City Snowfall Normals, the 2025–26 Winter, Long Seasonal Records at Five Stations, State Extremes, Precipitation since 1895 and Winter Flight Cancellations from NOAA and BTS Data

No official national snowfall total exists for the United States, so snow is usually described through station records and storm reports. We assemble NOAA climate normals, daily station records, snow-cover analyses, state climate extremes and statewide precipitation series, together with Bureau of Transportation Statistics cancellation data, into one descriptive account. Averaged over the 5,661 stations with a 1991–2020 snowfall normal, Vermont recorded the most snow, 97.8 inches a year, and Florida and Hawaii none; station averages and medians diverge sharply in mountainous states such as California (12.5 inches against 0.0). Among 16 cities Buffalo had the highest normal (95.4 inches). In the 2025–26 season Providence received 69.3 inches, 189% of normal, including 37.9 inches in 24 hours on 22–23 February 2026, a new Rhode Island record, while Cheyenne received 42% of normal. At five stations with records from the 1950s, linear trends in seasonal snowfall ranged from +0.66 to -0.49 inches per decade, small against year-to-year swings such as Boston's 9.3 to 110.6 inches. Myrtle Beach has recorded 87.4 inches in 36 measurable snowfalls since 1940, 34.5 inches of it in the 1980s. Contiguous-US precipitation averaged 31.30 inches in 1991–2020 and 29.25 inches in 2025, with a long-run trend of +0.166 inches per decade since 1895. January had the highest US flight cancellation rate in 2015–2025 (2.95%), 3.43 times October's. All inputs are public.