White Christmas
Will La Plata, NM have a white Christmas?
La Plata, New Mexico had snow on the ground on Christmas morning in 2 of the 28 Christmases measured from 1996 to 2025. The last white Christmas there was in 2008. Rarely.
Measured at Farmington Ag Sci Cnt, 18 miles south of La Plata. 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 La Plata starts on this page on December 18.