White Christmas
Will Detroit Lakes, MN have a white Christmas?
Detroit Lakes, Minnesota had snow on the ground on Christmas morning in 20 of the 23 Christmases measured from 1996 to 2025. The last white Christmas there was in 2025.
Measured at Ottertail, 31 miles southeast of Detroit Lakes. That station is far enough from Detroit Lakes, or high or low enough, that this is its own record rather than a call for the town. 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 Detroit Lakes starts on this page on December 18.