Average Annual Snowfall in Virginia

The tables below give yearly averages for snowfall at cities and other locations in Virginia. 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: Coastal Virginia in the east, Piedmont or central Virginia, and the Mountains, including the Shenandoah Valley in the northwest and the Appalachian Mountains of southwest Virginia.

Virginia's Mountains

Average annual snowfall

Days	Place	Inches	Centi­metres
15.3	Blacksburg	24.7	62.7
24.8	Burkes Garden	46.9	119.1
7.8	Galax	16.6	42.2
9.6	Harrisonburg	19.4	49.3
9.4	Hot Springs	25.3	64.3
5.1	Pennington Gap	9.3	23.6
7.1	Roanoke	14.8	37.6
8.7	Staunton	21.6	54.9
10.4	Winchester	23.1	58.7
28.6	Wise	47.1	119.6

Piedmont Virginia

Yearly snow averages

Days	Place	Inches	Centi­metres
8.0	Arlington	13.7	34.8
7.6	Charlottesville	17.0	43.2
2.0	Danville	4.6	11.7
3.3	Fredericksburg	11.3	28.7
5.7	Lynchburg	11.6	29.5
1.9	Martinsville	9.4	23.9
5.6	Richmond	8.8	22.4

Coastal Virginia

Average total snowfall for a year

Days	Place	Inches	Centi­metres
4.0	Norfolk	6.2	15.7
3.7	North River	8.5	21.6
3.2	Painter	6.6	16.8
2.6	Suffolk	5.8	14.7
5.0	Wallops Island	8.4	21.3
1.6	Williamsburg	4.3	10.9