White Christmas
Will Occidental, CA have a white Christmas?
Occidental, California had snow on the ground on Christmas morning in 0 of the 21 Christmases measured from 1996 to 2025. None of them was white.
Measured at Middletown, 29 miles northeast of Occidental. That station is far enough from Occidental, 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 Occidental starts on this page on December 18.