According to QI: “There happened to be snow every Christmas of the first eight years of Charles Dickens’ life, which probably explains why white Christmases are a consistent feature of his stories.” In the UK, one of the reasons why Christmas is associated with snow may have something to do with Charles Dickens. Moreover, many places you’d expect to always have white Christmases such as Copenhagen, Vienna, Reykjavik and Stockholm turn out to has them less than half the time. I would have thought that a white Christmas is a much more common phenomenon because the Christmas is almost always pictured as snowy.ĭoesn’t it feel weird to live in, like, England or Holland, and see all Christmas stories and decorations involving snow?Ĭonversely one of the more surprising things on the map is that Madrid has a 2% chance of a white Christmas, the same odds as Dublin. Only less than 10 % of Europeans live in an area where the Christmas is usually white. When I started doing this map, I was really surprised that a white Christmas is so rare in most of Europe. The map was created by Finish reddit user Haayoaie who states that: The map above shows the probability of a white Christmas, defined as having snow on the ground on December 25th, across Europe.
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