White Christmas
Will San Bernardino, CA have a white Christmas?
San Bernardino, California had snow on the ground on Christmas morning in 5 of the 22 Christmases measured from 1996 to 2025. The last white Christmas there was in 2020.
Measured at Big Bear Lake, 23 miles northeast of San Bernardino. That station is far enough from San Bernardino, 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 San Bernardino starts on this page on December 18.