Average Annual Snowfall in Tennessee

The tables below give yearly averages for snowfall at cities and towns in Tennessee. 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: Eastern, Middle and Western Tennessee.

Eastern Tennessee

Average annual snowfall

Days	Place	Inches	Centi­metres
2.0	Athens	3.6	9.1
8.8	Bristol	9.2	23.4
2.4	Chattanooga	3.6	9.1
0.9	Cleveland	1.1	2.8
11.4	Crossville	14.1	35.8
1.2	Dayton	1.6	4.1
5.8	Gatlinburg	7.7	19.6
6.0	Greeneville	7.7	19.6
2.6	Kingsport	5.1	13.0
4.0	Knoxville	4.6	11.7
9.1	Morristown	10.2	25.9
5.1	Mountain City	12.0	30.5
3.3	Oak Ridge	4.4	11.2
2.5	Oneida	5.5	14.0
1.9	Sevierville	3.6	9.1

Middle Tennessee

Yearly snow averages

Days	Place	Inches	Centi­metres
1.2	Cheatham Lake Dam	1.3	3.3
0.5	Clarksville	0.5	1.3
0.9	Columbia	0.9	2.3
4.9	Cookeville	6.1	15.5
2.3	Dover	3.8	9.7
3.6	Monteagle	5.4	13.7
2.1	Murfreesboro	2.2	5.6
5.5	Nashville	4.7	11.9
1.0	Shelbyville	1.1	2.8
2.7	Tullahoma	2.8	7.1

Western Tennessee

Average total snow for a year

Days	Place	Inches	Centi­metres
1.5	Jackson	2.7	6.9
2.3	Martin	3.1	7.9
2.6	Memphis	2.7	6.9