White Christmas
Will El Rito, NM have a white Christmas?
El Rito, New Mexico had snow on the ground on Christmas morning in 3 of the 23 Christmases measured from 1996 to 2025. The last white Christmas there was in 2012.
Measured at Alcalde, 19 miles southeast of El Rito. That station is far enough from El Rito, 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 El Rito starts on this page on December 18.