Colorado Snow Totals
How much snow fell in Colorado: the latest storm's totals by city and from NWS spotters, and the snowiest Colorado cities so far this winter, updated every morning.
The latest storm in Colorado, November 5, 2026, brought an estimated 7.8 inches at Aspen, the most of any Colorado city in NOAA's snowfall analysis; spotters measured up to 9.1 inches at 1 NE Leadville, CO. Leadville leads Colorado cities this winter with 9.4 inches since October 1, 2026, through November 7, 2026 (NOAA estimate).
Latest storm: November 5, 2026
Snow totals for the latest storm in Colorado, the 24-hour period ending the morning of November 5, 2026. NOAA estimates are the value at each city's center; spotter reports are what observers measured at one spot, often a storm total.
NOAA estimate by city
| City | Estimated snow |
|---|---|
| Aspen | 7.8″ |
| Leadville | 7.0″ |
| Snowmass Village | 6.8″ |
| Buena Vista | 5.7″ |
| Salida | 4.3″ |
| Basalt | 1.6″ |
| Breckenridge | 1.3″ |
| Carbondale | 0.7″ |
| Vail | 0.6″ |
| Frisco | 0.6″ |
| Silverthorne | 0.3″ |
| Glenwood Springs | 0.2″ |
| Woodland Park | 0.1″ |
| Avon | 0.1″ |
Day pages: Nov 5, 2026
Most snow this winter in Colorado (2026–27)
Season-to-date snow since October 1, 2026, through November 7, 2026. Cities with their own long-record NOAA weather station use the station's total; the rest use NOAA's estimate at the city center. National standings: snowiest US cities this winter.
| # | City | So far | Normal to date | Last year, same date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leadville | 9.4″ | – | 0.4″ | Estimate |
| 2 | Aspen | 9.1″ | – | 0.9″ | Estimate |
| 3 | Snowmass Village | 8.1″ | – | 0.9″ | Estimate |
| 4 | Buena Vista | 6.7″ | – | 0.9″ | Estimate |
| 4 | Salida | 6.7″ | – | 1.8″ | Estimate |
| 6 | Breckenridge | 2.7″ | – | 0.8″ | Estimate |
| 7 | Basalt | 1.6″ | – | 0.0″ | Estimate |
| 8 | Vail | 1.5″ | – | 3.7″ | Estimate |
| 9 | Frisco | 1.2″ | – | 0.9″ | Estimate |
| 10 | Silverthorne | 0.8″ | – | 0.7″ | Estimate |
| 10 | Woodland Park | 0.8″ | – | 0.0″ | Estimate |
| 12 | Carbondale | 0.7″ | – | 0.0″ | Estimate |
| 13 | Avon | 0.6″ | – | 1.3″ | Estimate |
| 13 | Estes Park | 0.6″ | – | 0.4″ | Estimate |
| 15 | Glenwood Springs | 0.2″ | – | 0.0″ | Estimate |
| 16 | Palmer Lake | 0.1″ | – | 0.0″ | Estimate |
| 16 | Steamboat Springs | 0.1″ | – | 0.6″ | Estimate |
Snow days in Colorado since October 2025
Days when NOAA's analysis put an inch or more in at least one Colorado county.
All Colorado cities with snow since October 2025
Alamosa Arvada Aspen Ault Aurora Avon Basalt Bayfield Bennett Berthoud Boulder Breckenridge Brighton Broomfield Brush Buena Vista Burlington Cañon City Carbondale Castle Pines Castle Rock Centennial Cherry Hills Village Colorado Springs Commerce City Cortez Craig Dacono Delta Denver Durango Eagle Eaton Edgewater Elizabeth Englewood Erie Estes Park Evans Federal Heights Firestone Florence Fort Collins Fort Lupton Fort Morgan Fountain Frederick Frisco Fruita Glendale Glenwood Springs Golden Grand Junction Greeley Greenwood Village Gunnison Gypsum Johnstown La Junta Lafayette Lakewood Lamar Leadville Littleton Lochbuie Lone Tree Longmont Louisville Loveland Manitou Springs Mead Milliken Monte Vista Montrose Monument New Castle Northglenn Orchard City Palisade Palmer Lake Parker Platteville Pueblo Rifle Rocky Ford Salida Severance Sheridan Silt Silverthorne Snowmass Village Steamboat Springs Sterling Superior Thornton Timnath Trinidad Vail Walsenburg Wellington Westminster Wheat Ridge Windsor Woodland Park Yuma
National standings: snowiest US cities this winter.
Sources
Weather stations: NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network – Daily (GHCN-Daily), daily snowfall (element SNOW) from NCEI's data service. Recent days are preliminary; values NCEI's checks flag are left out. Normals are each station's average snowfall per calendar date over its normals period (1991–2020 for most stations). Estimates: NOAA National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (NOHRSC), National Snowfall Analysis, 24-hour totals on a 4-km grid, at the city's Census center point. These are estimated, not measured.
Spotter reports: National Weather Service Local Storm Reports (LSRs): measurements sent to NWS offices by trained storm spotters, CoCoRaHS and co-op observers, NWS staff, the public and others, archived by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet (Iowa State University). Reports are what each observer measured at one spot, often a storm total so far, and the NWS doesn't quality-check every one. Exact repeats count once.
These are our own summaries of public NOAA data; NOAA has not reviewed them. Source: National Storms (nationalstorms.com), CC BY 4.0, data from NOAA NCEI GHCN-Daily, NOAA NOHRSC and NWS Local Storm Reports via the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.