White Christmas
Will Dell Rapids, SD have a white Christmas?
Dell Rapids, South Dakota had snow on the ground on Christmas morning in 11 of the 23 Christmases measured from 1996 to 2025. The last white Christmas there was in 2022. A coin flip.
Measured at Colton, 11 miles west of Dell Rapids. 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 Dell Rapids starts on this page on December 18.