Will KC get a white Christmas? Probably not — but we may see another record
Kansas Citians who want a white Christmas in 2025 will most likely have to wait until next year, according to The Weather Channel. Instead, they’ll have to settle for warmer temperatures.
Christmas is a week away, and the 10-day forecast from The Weather Channel shows that it’ll be closer to the record-high temperature set on the holiday 103 years ago. The temperatures in the week leading up to Christmas will be in the 50s, but the channel is predicting it’ll reach a high of 64 degrees on the day, with intervals of clouds and sunshine.
The record for the hottest temperature in Kansas City was 67 degrees, set in 1922. The city almost broke the record in 2019, when the high was recorded at 66 degrees.
Kansas City has had only 27 white Christmases in its history, according to data that goes back to 1893 from The Weather Channel. The 30-year average, which resets every 10 years, shows that chance for snow is between 20% and 25%.
A white Christmas is defined as having at least 1 inch of snow on the ground on Christmas morning. The last time the metro had an inch or more of snow on Christmas morning was in 2022, and the snowiest Christmas morning was back in 1918, when there were 10 inches of snow on the ground.
The temperatures in 2024 were colder than 2025’s forecasts, with the city reaching a high of 44 degrees.
The weather forecasts also show that the snow Kansas City got in early December will likely be the last we’ll see this month. That snowstorm set a record for the most snow recorded on Dec. 1.
