White Christmas in Canada: A historical look [Video]

With fewer than two weeks remaining until Christmas Day, weather forecasts and snowfall projections are starting to take shape but have yet to be finalized for cities across Canada.

But can you expect a white Christmas? Environment and Climate Change Canada’s long-range forecast does not currently include Dec. 25 (and won’t until Dec. 19), but the agency has compiled data from the last 69 years to give you some idea of where snow is a near certainty.

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Here’s the list of cities, ranked by percentage, where two centimetres of snow accumulation – the technical benchmark in Canada for a white Christmas – has greeted Santa Claus from 1955 through 2023:

The ‘Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus’ (who sees snow every year) division:

• Iqaluit 100%
• Kenora, Ont. 100%
• Whitehorse 100%
• Yellowknife 100%

The ‘Let it snow, let it snow, let it …