Average Snowfall for Maryland in December

The tables below give monthly averages for snowfall during December at cities and other locations in Maryland. The numbers are for the total amount of new snow and how many days it snows at least 0.1 inches (0.25 centimetres) this month.

The snowfall totals are averages based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020 for the US National Centers for Environmental Information.

You can jump to a separate table for each region of the state: Eastern Shore, Central Maryland and Western Maryland.

Eastern Shore

Average total snowfall in December
Days Place Inches Centi­metres
0.3 Assateague Island 0.2 0.5
1.2 Chestertown 1.7 4.3
1.0 Royal Oak 1.8 4.6
0.8 Salisbury 0.9 2.3
1.1 Snow Hill 2.5 6.4

Central Maryland

December snowfall averages
Days Place Inches Centi­metres
1.5 Baltimore 2.5 6.4
1.4 Beltsville 2.3 5.8
1.1 Mechanicsville 2.0 5.1
0.7 Patuxent River 1.3 3.3

Western Maryland

Average snow for December
Days Place Inches Centi­metres
2.1 Cumberland 5.4 13.7
7.8 Frostburg 13.0 33.0
7.8 Oakland 21.4 54.4
Reference

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Climate Normals.

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