White Christmas
Will Artesia, NM have a white Christmas?
Artesia, New Mexico had snow on the ground on Christmas morning in 2 of the 26 Christmases measured from 1996 to 2025. The last white Christmas there was in 2011. Rarely.
Measured at Artesia 6s, 6 miles south of Artesia. A white Christmas is an inch or more of snow on the ground at the Christmas morning reading, the line NOAA uses, counted from the station's own daily record.
The forecast for Christmas morning in Artesia starts on this page on December 18.