Average Annual Snowfall in Texas

The tables below give yearly averages for total snowfall at cities, towns and parks in Texas. The numbers are for the total amount of snow and for how many days it snows at least 0.1 inches (0.25 centimetres).

The snowfall totals are annual averages based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020 for the US National Centers for Environmental Information.

You can jump to a separate table for each region of the state: North Central Texas, South Central Texas, East Texas, Gulf Coast and West Texas.

North Central Texas

Average annual snowfall
Days Place Inches Centi­metres
1.5 Dallas 1.7 4.3
1.8 Fort Worth 2.0 5.1
0.0 Killeen 0.0 0.0
0.6 Waco 0.7 1.8
1.6 Wichita Falls 3.1 7.9

South Central Texas

Yearly snowfall averages
Days Place Inches Centi­metres
0.1 Alice 0.5 1.3
0.6 Austin 0.2 0.5
0.1 Choke Canyon Lake Dam 0.3 0.8
0.0 Falcon Lake Dam 0.0 0.0
0.1 Fredericksburg 0.2 0.5
0.0 Kingsville 0.1 0.3
0.1 Laredo 0.1 0.3
3.1 Midland 4.3 10.9
0.0 New Braunfels 0.0 0.0
0.3 San Antonio 0.2 0.5

East Texas

Average snow for a year
Days Place Inches Centi­metres
0.1 Lake Fork 0.2 0.5
0.4 Longview 0.7 1.8
0.1 Lufkin 0.3 0.8
0.0 Sam Rayburn Lake Dam 0.0 0.0
0.8 Texarkana 2.1 5.3
0.0 Toledo Bend Reservoir Dam 0.0 0.0

Gulf Coast

Average annual snowfall totals
Days Place Inches Centi­metres
0.0 Aransas Wildlife Refuge 0.3 0.8
0.0 Beaumont 0.1 0.3
0.0 Brownsville 0.0 0.0
0.1 Corpus Christi 0.2 0.5
0.1 Galveston 0.1 0.3
0.1 Houston 0.1 0.3
0.0 McAllen 0.1 0.3
0.1 Victoria 0.3 0.8

West Texas

Snowfall averages for a year
Days Place Inches Centi­metres
2.4 Abilene 3.7 9.4
10.3 Amarillo 17.2 43.7
0.2 Del Rio 0.2 0.5
2.1 El Paso 2.8 7.1
0.8 Guadalupe Mountains Park 2.8 7.1
0.1 Lajitas, Big Bend Park 0.5 1.3
5.7 Lubbock 7.0 17.8
0.2 Odessa 0.9 2.3
1.3 San Angelo 1.3 3.3
Reference

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Climate Normals.

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