#1El Dorado
Butler County · 12,696 people2 days a year with an inch or more·El Dorado station, 2 km
Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
El Dorado, #1 on this list · Butler County Courthouse · Photo: MadameGraffigny · CC BY-SA 3.0El Dorado gets the least snow of Kansas’ 151 towns of 2,500+ with a snow record: about 4 inches in a normal winter at its NOAA station. Goodland gets the most, about 30 inches; 150 of the 151 average under 30 inches.
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020, at each town’s nearest station with a snow record (named in each row). A described list: no letters. How grades work
#12 days a year with an inch or more·El Dorado station, 2 km
#T22 days a year with an inch or more·Arkansas City station, 1 km
1 days a year with an inch or more·Girard station, 13 km
Snow in a normal winter, least first. Towns that share a station share its figure and rank (T = tied; 97 towns here share a station).
151 towns ranked. Not here? See why a town may be missing.
A station’s normal can differ from the town’s own when the station sits higher or lower; each town’s Climate page names its station and checks it.
Among towns of 2,500+, the least snow falls in El Dorado (Butler County, about 4 in), Arkansas City (Cowley County, about 6 in), Washington Township (Crawford County, about 6 in), on NOAA’s 1991–2020 normals at each town’s station.
Goodland (Sherman County), about 30 inches in a normal winter at the Goodland station. See the snowiest towns.
The list covers towns of 2,500+ residents (151 in Kansas) whose nearest station has a snow normal of an inch or more; 0 have no station with a snow record. Smaller towns show their snow on their own Climate page.
Every list ranks the same 2,500+ towns, so a town’s rank means the same thing on each.