Snow Day Hub
New York Snow Day Calculator
New York gets 63 inches of snow per year — but not every storm closes school. Live snow day probability for 19 New York cities, calibrated to local closure thresholds.
New York has one of the most snow-hardened school cultures in the country. Across the 19 New York cities covered by SnowSense™, average annual snowfall is 63 inches, with Syracuse receiving up to 124 inches in a typical winter. Despite that volume, New York districts close school less often than mid-Atlantic districts do — kids, buses, and roads here are built for winter.
What closes New York schools isn't snow accumulation — it's wind chill, ice, or infrastructure failure. Sustained wind chills below −30°F trigger safety-driven cold-day cancellations under most New York districts' protocols. A foot of powder, by contrast, is usually just Tuesday.
The city links above show live snow day probability for every covered New York city. SnowSense™ weighs wind-chill risk separately from accumulation for New York, so a frigid-but-clear day can still register a probability spike when accumulation-only models would show zero.