White Christmas
Will Hankinson, ND have a white Christmas?
Hankinson, North Dakota had snow on the ground on Christmas morning in 15 of the 25 Christmases measured from 1996 to 2025. The last white Christmas there was in 2025.
Measured at Wheaton, 26 miles southeast of Hankinson. That station is far enough from Hankinson, 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 Hankinson starts on this page on December 18.