White Christmas
Will Palm Desert, CA have a white Christmas?
Palm Desert, California had snow on the ground on Christmas morning in 4 of the 26 Christmases measured from 1996 to 2025. The last white Christmas there was in 2016.
Measured at Idyllwild Fire Dept, 19 miles west of Palm Desert. That station is far enough from Palm Desert, 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 Palm Desert starts on this page on December 18.