Ideally, a proper Danish Christmas ought to be white but unfortunately this does not happen very often. In order to declare that we have a white Christmas in Denmark, Denmark’s Meteorological Institute requires 90% of the country to be covered in at least half a centimetre of snow. This has actually only happened seven times since 1900. That was in 1915, 1923, 1938, 1956, 1969, 1981, and 1995.

The weather on December 24

Statistically, there are on average 14 years between the white Christmases in Denmark, which means that the chance of snow-covered surroundings on the 24th of December is 7%. In 67% of the cases, the weather in the afternoon on the 24th is grey and mild, and in approximately 25% of the cases, several different transitional forms between the national white Christmas and the grey, mild Christmas occur.

Source: Denmark’s Meteorological Institute