White Christmas
Will Malta, IL have a white Christmas?
Malta, Illinois had snow on the ground on Christmas morning in 14 of the 29 Christmases measured from 1996 to 2025. The last white Christmas there was in 2022. A coin flip.
Measured at De Kalb, 4 miles east of Malta. 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 Malta starts on this page on December 18.