White Christmas
Will East Galesburg, IL have a white Christmas?
East Galesburg, Illinois had snow on the ground on Christmas morning in 7 of the 26 Christmases measured from 1996 to 2025. The last white Christmas there was in 2017. Now and then.
Measured at Knoxville, 3 miles south of East Galesburg. 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 East Galesburg starts on this page on December 18.