Use the city pages below for a local readout. Each page runs the same calculator with city-specific snowfall context, district notes, and FAQs. The model still wants your ZIP, because a metro name is not a bus route.
These are not doorway copies of each other. Chicago Public Schools is not Buffalo lake-effect, and neither is Atlanta ice. If a city is missing, use the main calculator with your ZIP and school type.
Metro calculators
- Chicago, IL
- New York City, NY
- Boston, MA
- Buffalo, NY
- Detroit, MI
- Cleveland, OH
- Minneapolis, MN
- Denver, CO
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Philadelphia, PA
- Syracuse, NY
- Milwaukee, WI
- Albany, NY
- Columbus, OH
- Cincinnati, OH
- Indianapolis, IN
- Kansas City, MO
- Rochester, NY
- Providence, RI
- Salt Lake City, UT
How to pick the right page
Open the metro you live in, then type your actual ZIP. Suburban Cook County is not CPS. Newark is not NYC DOE. Lake-effect towns east of Buffalo should not use a downtown Buffalo assumption.
Inches by school type · Announcement times · Method
Delay, ice, and cold
Not every high-risk morning is a full snow day. Read two-hour delay vs snow day, ice vs snow, and wind chill closures before you trust an inch total.