#1Incline Village
unincorporated, Washoe County · 9,272 people33 days a year with an inch or more·Tahoe City station, 20 km
Incline Village, #1 on this list · Photo: ShakataGaNai · CC BY-SA 3.0Nevada rankings · Climate
Snowiest towns in Nevada
Incline Village gets the most snow of Nevada’s 25 towns of 2,500+ with a snow record: about 179 inches in a normal winter at its NOAA station. Hawthorne gets the least, about 1 inches; 1 of the 25 average 60 inches or more.
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
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#2Ely
White Pine County · 3,946 people16 days a year with an inch or more·Ely Yelland Fld AP station, 4 km
#T3Elko
Elko County · 21,019 people14 days a year with an inch or more·Elko Rgnl AP station, 2 km
All 25 towns
Snow in a normal winter, most first. Towns that share a station share its figure and rank (T = tied; 18 towns here share a station).
25 towns ranked. Not here? See why a town may be missing.
#TownSnow a yearDays with 1″+NOAA station
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.
Quick answers
Questions people ask
Which Nevada town gets the most snow?
Incline Village (Washoe County), about 179 inches in a normal winter at the Tahoe City station.
What part of Nevada gets the least amount of snow?
Among towns of 2,500+, the least snow falls in Hawthorne (Mineral County, about 1 in), Yerington (Lyon County, about 3 in), Fallon (Churchill County, about 4 in), on NOAA’s 1991–2020 normals at each town’s station. See the towns with the least snow.
Why isn’t my town on this list?
The list covers towns of 2,500+ residents (42 in Nevada) whose nearest station has a snow normal of an inch or more; 17 have no station with a snow record. Smaller towns show their snow on their own Climate page.
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Every list ranks the same 2,500+ towns, so a town’s rank means the same thing on each.
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