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Do you need a snowblower in Cañon City, CO?

The machine for a Cañon City driveway

Cordless single-stage

Plenty falls in Cañon City, about 5.0 tons a winter on this driveway, but it comes in shallow storms a small cordless machine can take in.

Before you buy, check the battery is rated to clear the whole driveway in one charge in the cold, or get a second battery. Batteries lose range below freezing.

How much snow Cañon City gets

Snow a year
38 in
Storms of 5 in or more
1.4 a winter
Storms of 10 in or more
almost never
Days with snow on the ground
26

Moderate, a typical snowy-city winter. About what a typical snowy US city gets. It tends to stay, so each storm lands on the last one.

On a two car driveway that is about 5.0 tons of snow to move in a season, and a 10 inch storm weighs 2,600 pounds.

When the snow comes in Cañon City

  1. Sep0.2
  2. Oct3.3
  3. Nov5.1
  4. Dec6.2
  5. Jan6.7
  6. Feb6.2
  7. Mar6.0
  8. Apr4.1
  9. May0.5

Snow worth clearing runs from October to April, heaviest in January. Start and service a machine in September.

Towns near Cañon City

Cañon City is number 38 of 53 Colorado towns here for snowfall; Steamboat Springs gets the most at 185 inches.

TownMilesSnowTwo car, paved
Fountain, CO3433 inCordless single-stage
Pueblo, CO3515 inA shovel is enough
Colorado Springs, CO3855 inGas single-stage
Monument, CO48121 inTwo-stage snowblower
Castle Rock, CO6858 inGas single-stage
Castle Pines, CO7358 inGas single-stage

Where these numbers come from

Read next: Snowblowers on a gravel driveway and Single-stage or two-stage.

NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals from Canon City, 1.3 miles from Cañon City. A normal winter, not this winter's forecast. Snow is weighed at 6.24 pounds a cubic foot, fresh and fairly dry; wet spring snow can weigh three times that.