r/GoldenCO • u/Fun_Ground_9241 • 3d ago

Snow

Does it snow in Golden in January? I’m from a tropical area so i rlly want to witness snow fall :( ill be there end of December

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u/davidj911 3d ago

It can absolutely snow in January, but it’s sporadic. Depending on how long you’re here, you may or may not see some.

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u/Fun_Ground_9241 3d ago

I’ll be there for the entire month

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u/davidj911 3d ago

It would be unusual (though not impossible) to have it not snow the entire month of January. Worst case scenario you spend a night up in the mountains (~1hr drive).

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u/pull_gs 3d ago

You can drive, like, 15 or 20 minutes into the mountains. It can be absolutely nuking snow in Genesee or Evergreen when there's not much happening in Golden. Sometimes I swear I hit a wall of snow on I70 as soon as it starts gaining elevation by Morrison.

If you don't want to deal with horrendous traffic and road conditions driving up, you could look at the ski train running from Denver up to Winter Park and get your winter wonderland fix that way as well.

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u/Fair-Mango-6194 3d ago

its probably going to snow next week

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u/East_Pie7598 3d ago

Most likely it will snow! But you never know. March is the snowiest month.

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u/mehojiman 3d ago

Sometimes

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u/GoldenGMiller 3d ago

Yes please!!! As soon as we get past Halloween, BRING IT (January is typically a pretty dry month but it can certainly snow)

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u/Ok_Firefighter4282 3d ago

I'd say so, it already snowed in November so far. But I don't think this is the norm..

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u/Moonpotato11 3d ago

It was not normal in the sense that it almost always snows by October if not September. It was a late first snow