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Will it be a white Christmas? Follow the countdown to 25th December and see how the odds of snow are shaping up across the UK and Ireland. Our model-based regional outlooks run from late July, and from early September we publish a regularly updated hand-written perspective.
Can't wait to find out if it will snow this Christmas? Play our free festive games to help pass the time.
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Convert rain to snow and build a covering.
Play Santa's Snow Show
Solve the puzzles and learn fun weather facts.
Play Santa's Puzzle Forecast
Turn the rain to snow to save the big day.
Play Save our White Christmas
We provide two perspectives on the Christmas 2026 forecast:
What's the latest outlook for a white Christmas?
The journey will soon start again. Will Christmas 2026 finally be the one to bring widespread snow to the UK? The excitement starts building as the nights rapidly pull in during the autumn months!
Percentage chance of snow on Christmas Day:
North of Yorkshire / Lancashire: Pending (September)
South of Yorkshire / Lancashire: Pending (September)
Updates: 1: Expected 01/09/26
Updated daily and generated automatically from long-range computer model data.
Next video forecast update will be in November.
Charts and data to help you make your own forecast.
The GEFS35 charts don't yet reach the Christmas period.
What do they mean? Blue shading indicates a colder than average air mass, while red indicates a warmer than average one. Therefore, if you're hoping for cold and potentially snowy weather it's blue you want to see over the UK.
If the past is the best guide to the future, you may find it interesting to check out these charts from Christmases gone. Links open in a new window.
Average temperatures on 25th December during the 1981–2010 period are shown on the chart below.